Articles from 2023 – Page 43 of 60

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Microsoft Azure Quantum joins the quest to create new hydrogen fuel-cell catalysts

Chemists at Microsoft Azure Quantum are teaming up with Johnson Matthey, a British-based clean-tech company, to identify new types of… Read More

Redfin’s latest layoffs come a few months after it said housing market had started to recover

After predicting that the sluggish housing market had started to rebound in January, Redfin this week blamed real estate market… Read More

GeekWire Awards: How this startup CEO adapted to the pandemic, economic downturn and his own fatigue

Editor’s note: This is one of five profiles of the finalists for Startup CEO of the Year ahead of the… Read More

This generative AI startup wants to help content creators in the storyboarding process

What would Marcel the Shell look like in Balenciaga shoes? That’s one prompt a startup developing generative artificial intelligence tools… Read More

This AI understands doctor’s notes: Truveta’s new model finds meaning in messy healthcare data

Healthcare data holds great potential to improve medicine, but mining it is not easy. To get to the gold, Truveta… Read More

Amazon is working on generative AI, too, CEO Andy Jassy assures shareholders in annual letter

What about Amazon? That question comes up frequently these days in tech industry conversations about generative artificial intelligence, especially as… Read More

Redfin lays off 201 employees as housing market continues to retrench

Redfin laid off 201 employees, or about 4% of its workforce, on Tuesday as it continues to trim expenses in… Read More

Netflix turning a Seattle warehouse Upside Down with interactive ‘Stranger Things: The Experience’

Seattle is going to put on its best Hawkins, Ind., impersonation when “Stranger Things: The Experience” sets up in a… Read More

Microsoft’s ‘Verified ID’ will confirm that LinkedIn members actually work where they say they do

Microsoft is expanding its digital identity technology to LinkedIn with a new tool that lets companies give their employees a… Read More

Vancouver, B.C., tissue ‘bioprinting’ company inks $75M deal with Novo Nordisk for diabetes, obesity

Vancouver, B.C.-based biotech company Aspect Biosystems inked a partnership worth potentially more than $2.6 billion with Danish biopharma giant Novo… Read More

Univ. of Washington jostling for a slice of R&D funding from the CHIPS and Science Act

The University of Washington is chasing research funding unleashed by the CHIPS and Science Act, signed into law in August by President… Read More

GeekWire Awards: How these five Workplace of the Year finalists navigate challenging times

The five finalists for Workplace of the Year at the GeekWire Awards rely on a number of policies to help… Read More

Nintendo is bringing its ‘Nintendo Live’ gaming extravaganza to Seattle in September

Nintendo of America announced on Tuesday that it will bring its “Nintendo Live” stage show to Seattle in September. Billed… Read More

3 years after Sprint merger, T-Mobile employs 9k fewer people, insists it upheld pledge on jobs

John Legere was adamant, bordering on indignant. “This merger is all about creating new, high-quality, high-paying jobs, and the New… Read More

Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotechnologies COO departing; Sana adds leaders; and more

— Mark Adams is stepping down as chief operating officer of Adaptive Biotechnologies, the company said today in a regulatory… Read More

Young Entrepreneur of the Year finalists at the GeekWire Awards share their entrepreneurship tips

The finalists for the GeekWire Awards Young Entrepreneur of the Year category are at the cutting edge of their respective… Read More

Industrial headset company RealWear and Seattle’s Cascadia Capital terminate SPAC deal

A SPAC deal to take Vancouver, Wash.-based industrial headset company RealWear public has fallen apart. Cascadia Acquisition Corp., the special… Read More

Carbon Robotics lands $30M to sell more weed-destroying machines powered by AI

Turns out that farmers like using lasers to kill weeds. Seattle startup Carbon Robotics raised $30 million to fuel growth… Read More

Microsoft Azure enlists generative AI to help Pentagon look for satellite imagery

Can a chatbot help Pentagon planners find the satellite data they need to understand what’s happening in a global hotspot?… Read More

Carbon removal startup Nori lays off 10 employees, citing market concerns

Nori, a Seattle startup that sells carbon credits to individuals and businesses to offset carbon emissions, laid off 10 employees… Read More

Report highlights growth of life sciences sector in Seattle, buoyed by NIH funding

Life sciences employment and federal research funding have grown rapidly in the Seattle area since 2019, according to a new… Read More

Cannabis company POSaBIT calls off plans to acquire three compliance software firms

POSaBIT announced Friday plans to abandon its acquisition of three cannabis compliance software firms after a third-party proposal resulted in… Read More

Judge tosses most of the claims in Amazon’s suit against former AWS real estate managers

A federal judge has dismissed most of the claims in a long-running lawsuit brought by Amazon against two of its… Read More

The latest 007 saga has a space billionaire, quantum computers — but no James Bond

Imagine a James Bond story with quantum computers, brain-computer interfaces, a cloud-shifting climate control system and a billionaire who owns… Read More

Tech Moves: Halo leader departing; Remitly adds board directors; drone vet lands at Rantizo

— Seattle-based fintech company Remitly added two new board members: Ryno Blignaut and Phyllis Campbell. Blignaut is an investor with Silicon… Read More

Amazon and SpaceX vets apply their AI and satellite skills to new carbon accounting startup

Corporations worldwide are committing to shrinking their carbon footprints. But it can get complicated when companies try to calculate how… Read More

Los Angeles venture firm Bonfire eyeing Seattle for B2B startup investments

Another out-of-town venture firm is looking at Seattle for new startup investments. Los Angeles-based Bonfire has backed three Seattle-area startups… Read More

After acquisition by Environ Energy, Seattle startup Scope 5 looks to boost ESG reporting platform

The world of sustainability has changed quite a bit since Scope 5 first got off the ground more than a… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of April 2, 2023

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of April 2, 2023. Read More

Fred Hutch partners with video game streamers to raise money, fight medical disinformation

In an effort to fight online medical disinformation and raise money for research, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is tapping… Read More