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Articles from 2023

Engineer inspects OSIRIS-REx sample return capsule after touchdown in Utah

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe delivers sample of asteroid — and moves on to next target

Seven years and 4 billion miles after its launch, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully dropped off a capsule containing a… Read More

GeekWire Week in Review

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 17, 2023

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 17, 2023. Read More

‘Six Days in Fallujah’ game, developed in Seattle, recreates paranoia of urban conflict zones

The first couple of times I tried to play Six Days in Fallujah, I wasn’t sure what I was doing… Read More

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Longtime Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley is our Copilot on this week’s GeekWire Podcast

It was a big week for Microsoft, with the unveiling of the company’s latest Windows and AI features and new… Read More

First Lady Jill Biden visits Seattle, stops at Fred Hutch to boost Cancer Moonshot program

First Lady Jill Biden visited Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center on Friday in Seattle, where she met with researchers and spoke… Read More

Interview: UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt visits Amazon and Microsoft; talks AI, China, economy

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, the United Kingdom’s chief financial minister, visited Seattle on Friday as part of a West Coast tour… Read More

Construction software company Procore acquires Seattle mapping startup Unearth

Unearth Technologies, a Seattle startup that develops mapping software for the construction industry, announced Friday it was acquired by Procore… Read More

Unity’s Marc Whitten shares apology note following backlash to controversial licensing policies

After more than a week of controversy, Unity Technologies posted an apology letter to its community and promised to undo… Read More

Shift AI Podcast: Riding the wave of AI startup innovation with Pioneer Square Labs’ T.A. McCann

“I think any pitch that doesn’t have AI in it is just not going to get a look unless the… Read More

Where’s Astro? Amazon addresses home robot’s absence from annual devices event

Amazon’s Astro home robot was introduced at the company’s fall Devices & Services event two years ago. Last year, Astro’s… Read More

Amazon to add commercial breaks to Prime Video shows and movies

Amazon is ready to interrupt Prime Video programming to bring commercial breaks to its streaming shows and movies, the company… Read More

UK regulator: Microsoft concessions ‘substantially address’ concerns about Activision deal

Microsoft’s plan to sell Activision Blizzard’s cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft appears to have appeased UK antitrust regulators who previously… Read More

Can AI be holistic in spirit, soul, body, and mind? Insights from the PowerHER conference in Seattle

After an afternoon featuring inspiring business leaders, group mindfulness breaks, and activities to help attendees tap into their authentic selves… Read More

Voyager Capital targeting $100M for its sixth fund to back more B2B startups in the Pacific Northwest

Voyager Capital is raising cash for another fund to invest in more early-stage business-to-business startups based across the Pacific Northwest.… Read More

Tech Moves: Seattle startup vet Joanna Lord lands new gig; Outreach exec resigns; Maveron hires CFO

— Joanna Lord, a marketing exec who led teams at Seattle companies including Porch Group, Big Door, and Moz, is now… Read More

‘It’s kind of like the ’90s are back’: Microsoft previews unified AI ‘Copilot’ initiative

Microsoft executives appeared in New York City this morning to unveil a torrent of new AI features for Windows and… Read More

TikTok plans major growth in Seattle area as it looks to take on Amazon with e-commerce feature

TikTok is looking to aggressively grow its employee footprint in the Seattle area as the social media video app takes… Read More

Analyst: Cisco’s $28B deal to buy Splunk a ‘poker move’ to fend off Microsoft, Amazon, other giants

Telecommunications and networking giant Cisco announced its largest acquisition ever on Thursday, a $28 billion cash deal to take over… Read More

More layoffs at Outreach: Seattle sales software startup cuts 12% of staff

Outreach laid off 12% of its staff this week, the latest round of layoffs at the Seattle-based startup. A company spokesperson… Read More

Amazon unveils new AI features in quest to make Alexa ‘superhuman’

It was tough, as usual, to keep up with the announcements coming out of Amazon’s fall Devices & Services event… Read More

On the record: New vinyl Hi-Fi lounge in Seattle skips the algorithm and gets back to music basics

The term “Seattle sound” often refers to the heyday of grunge music in the city. But the people behind a… Read More

Bean Box is the latest startup using crowdfunding as it looks to charge up coffee subscription service

Another Seattle coffee startup wants to generate buzz through crowdfunding. Coffee subscription company Bean Box this week launched a crowdfunding… Read More

AI Gets Real at the GeekWire Summit: Speakers revealed for Oct. 19 at former Cinerama theater

We’re less than one month away from the 2023 GeekWire Summit, our signature business and technology conference, and we’d like… Read More

Seattle cybersecurity company WatchGuard acquires risk detection service CyGlass

Watchguard Technologies, a Seattle-based cybersecurity company, announced the acquisition of CyGlass, a Massachusetts-based company that offers cloud-based threat detection and… Read More

Amazon previews Alexa ‘Let’s Chat’ feature for Echo devices, building on generative AI technology

Amazon this morning showed a new feature, dubbed “Let’s Chat” driven by generative artificial intelligence, designed to make its Alexa… Read More

Puget Sound Venture Club, Seattle’s oldest angel group, merges with Alliance of Angels

Gary Ritner was investing in startups before many of today’s entrepreneurs were even born. Back in 1985, Ritner launched Seattle’s… Read More

Seattle startup MotherDuck raises $52.5M at a $400M valuation to fuel DuckDB analytics platform

MotherDuck is fueling up to flap its wings a little harder. The analytics company on Wednesday announced a $52.5 million… Read More

Could Microsoft acquire Valve? Xbox leak highlights interest in potential bid

One of the less visible reveals from Microsoft’s dramatic document leak is that Xbox head Phil Spencer and the Microsoft… Read More

Seattle biotech startup Deverra Therapeutics raising cash to develop cellular immunotherapies

Seattle biotech company Deverra Therapeutics is raising cash for its cellular immunotherapies platform that helps doctors treat patients with cancer… Read More

Dr. Evil, Mr. Bigglesworth and "Starter Villain" cat

‘Starter Villain’: Sci-fi supervillain tale aims a satirical laser at tech billionaires

There’s nary a mention of Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates in “Starter Villain,” but science-fiction author John Scalzi’s wickedly funny… Read More

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