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Articles from 2020

National Team landing system

Blue Origin’s team turns in its moon landing proposal — and provides a sneak peek

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin venture and its partners in the space industry say they’ve given NASA their proposal… Read More

Microsoft initiative will use AI to sniff out bribes, theft and other government corruption

Microsoft unveiled an initiative to use artificial intelligence to detect government corruption, calling it “an urgent global issue that can… Read More

Microsoft, Brooks, Unilever and others join Amazon’s Climate Pledge, topping 30 signatories

Amazon’s Climate Pledge is taking on a higher profile, with its name on a Seattle sports arena, and more than… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Day 1 Families Fund awards $105.9M to 42 non-profits in third year of initiative

Jeff Bezos announced the latest recipients of donations from his Bezos Day 1 Families Fund on Wednesday, listing 42 organizations… Read More

Univ. of Washington rolls out new licensing process to streamline negotiations with spinouts

The University of Washington is aiming to make it easier for spinouts to get out of the research lab and… Read More

Workplace video communication app Voodle raises $6M to combat ‘Zoom fatigue and Slack overload’

Investors are betting that workers want a new way to share information across an organization — both during the pandemic… Read More

Halo Infinite will debut in fall 2021 after pandemic-driven delay

Halo Infinite has a new release date. The highly-anticipated game will debut next fall, Microsoft-owned developer 343 Industries announced Tuesday.… Read More

Amazon Web Services launches new tool to detect bias and blind spots in machine learning

A new feature from Amazon Web Services will alert developers to potential bias in machine learning algorithms, part of a… Read More

Freespira raises $10M for tech platform that aims to ease panic attacks and PTSD

In a year rife with anxiety, a Seattle-area startup called Freespira has raised $10 million to support its efforts to… Read More

Tech Moves: Slalom and WTIA add diversity leaders; Seattle mayor won’t seek re-election

— Seattle-based consulting firm Slalom announced Iesha Berry as its first chief inclusion and diversity officer. Based in the Dallas… Read More

QuantumScape pouch cell

QuantumScape pursues ‘breakthrough’ in lithium batteries — with tips from Bill Gates

Bill Gates isn’t just investing in QuantumScape’s potentially revolutionary lithium-metal battery technology — he’s giving the venture advice as well.… Read More

Washington state extends COVID-19 lockdown restrictions another three weeks through Jan. 4

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced Tuesday that the state’s COVID-19 restrictions will be in place for at least an additional three weeks… Read More

Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce sues city over ‘illegal’ payroll tax on big businesses

Fighting back against what it calls a “headwind to Seattle’s economic recovery,” the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce filed a lawsuit… Read More

Bizible founder Aaron Bird raises $5.1M for new Seattle B2B startup studio Pienza

After selling a startup and traveling around the world with his family, Aaron Bird set out to build the next… Read More

Redfin expands RedfinNow to Seattle and Bay Area in new litmus test for iBuyer service

Redfin will launch its iBuyer service RedfinNow in Seattle and the Bay Area in the latest expansion of the company’s… Read More

‘Five good books for a lousy year’: Bill Gates turns the page on 2020 with his annual holiday list

You don’t have to be a genius to get a read on how rough 2020 has been. What kind of… Read More

Athira Pharma wins $15M grant from National Institute on Aging for trial of Alzheimer’s drug

Seattle-based biotech company Athira Pharma announced a three-year grant totaling $15 million from the National Institute on Aging to support… Read More

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How to take on Amazon without getting crushed: Advice on tackling online retail’s 800-pound gorilla

Amazon is often described as innovative, creative, experimental and ruthless. It’s also very, very big — and getting bigger. With… Read More

Recurrent raises $3.5M to power the data science behind its reports on used electric car batteries

Recurrent, the Seattle-based startup that provides independent reports on the condition of used electric car batteries, has raised $3.5 million… Read More

Smartsheet shares soar 12% with $98.9M in Q3 revenue, up 38%; company reveals new CFO

Smartsheet stock spiked more than 12% in after-hours trading as the company saw revenue grow 38% year-over-year to $98.9 million… Read More

‘Smellicopter’ takes flight at UW with moth antenna on drone to fly toward smells and avoid obstacles

University of Washington researchers continue to push the boundaries between the technical and insect worlds in the pursuit of gaining… Read More

Starlink launch

SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network wins $885M in federal aid for rural broadband

SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network — which relies on hundreds of spacecraft built in Redmond, Wash. — has been awarded $885.5… Read More

Melinda Gates talks about vaccine disinformation and calls for Biden to appoint caregiving ‘czar’

In a recent Q&A with The New York Times, Melinda Gates reflected on the COVID-19 pandemic, the challenges and hesitations… Read More

Ex-Amazon engineer raises $500K to grow voice tech platform used by Whirlpool, LG, others

Vancouver, B.C. startup Picovoice raised a $500,000 investment from Seattle-based Founders’ Co-op for its platform that lets companies build their… Read More

First glimpse of Amazon’s new robotaxi: Zoox autonomous vehicle spotted during video shoot

Isn’t it always the urban video shoot that spoils the big car reveal? Zoox, the self-driving taxi company acquired by… Read More

Agriculture tech startup iUNU raises $7M for greenhouse computer vision system

Seattle startup iUNU raised another $7 million to help grow its AI and computer vision tech used in greenhouses. The… Read More

Book excerpt: How activists must harness new technologies to change the world

Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a new book Undercurrents: Channeling Outrage to Spark Practical Activism by Steve Davis,… Read More

How an all-girls high school prepped this exec for the male-dominated field of software engineering

For Qumulo’s Molly Brown, graduating from an all-girls high school turned out to be a great preparation for studying and… Read More

GeekWire Week in Review

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 29, 2020

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 29, 2020. Read More

Geek of the Week: Brightloom’s Jacqueline Nolis wrote the book on how to become a data scientist

Jacqueline Nolis hasn’t just made a career out of working in data science, she wrote the book on making a… Read More

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