Articles from 2024 – Page 56 of 56

BMW tests Amazon’s Alexa LLM for ‘car expert’ that answers questions and changes drive modes

Can artificial intelligence replace the owner’s manual? At the CES trade show in Las Vegas this week, BMW is demonstrating… Read More

Portland-based nuclear reactor company NuScale cuts 28% of workforce, or 154 employees

NuScale Power, a Portland, Ore.-based nuclear company, is laying off 154 full-time employees, or 28% of its workforce. In November… Read More

Astound Broadband outage impacts Seattle-area customers

Astound Broadband customers in the Seattle area were left without internet over the weekend after the company said power pole… Read More

Seattle startup Recurrent raises $16M, aims to be standard for scoring used EV batteries

Recurrent, a platform providing shoppers and car dealerships with information about used electric vehicle batteries, raised $16 million in a… Read More

First Vulcan rocket launches commercial moon lander with a boost from Blue Origin

Update: Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander fell back to Earth 10 days after launch due to a propellant leak that ruled out… Read More

Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Dec. 31, 2023

See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Dec. 31, 2023. Read More

NanoString Technologies to cut 9% of workforce, gets delisting notice from Nasdaq

Seattle-based publicly traded biotech company NanoString Technologies said in a filing Friday that it plans to cut about 50 positions,… Read More

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Can AI level the playing field? GeekWire Podcast with Nancy Wang of Advancing Women in Tech

Startup investor Nancy Wang sees the potential for generative artificial intelligence to change the balance of power in fields such… Read More

Washington vs. Michigan: Which university takes the title in tech?

Nothing like a little tech investor college football trash talk before the big game. As the Washington Huskies take on… Read More

Peregrine lunar lander being prepared for launch

Milestone moon lander mission targets an otherworldly frontier for DNA data storage

A mission to send a commercial lander to the moon, set for launch in a couple of days, will bring… Read More

Meta fights shutdown of Seattle-area Reality Labs cleanroom by state safety regulators

Meta Platforms is asking a judge in Seattle to nullify a Washington State Department of Labor & Industries order that… Read More

Here’s why Seattle startup OctoML changed its name to OctoAI

OctoML is now OctoAI. The Seattle startup this week revealed the slight but notable tweak to its name. The change… Read More

CES 2024: Here are the Washington state companies taking tech innovation to Las Vegas

The Washington State Dept. of Commerce will lead a delegation of companies to the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES), taking… Read More

Collage showing illustrations of NIAC concepts

NASA awards funds to study deep-space interferometer and other far-out ideas

A proposal to build a far-flung set of radio antennas to measure the cosmos is one of 13 far-out concepts… Read More

Tech Moves: Amazon sports VP departing; AI product leader leaving Microsoft; and more

— Marie Donoghue, a vice president at Amazon who helped lead its sports streaming and video production arm, is leaving the… Read More

Amazon shuts down last remaining Fresh Pickup location in Seattle, but keeps package service open

Amazon closed the last of its only two Amazon Fresh Pickup locations, marking the end of another effort by the… Read More

Univ. of Washington set to break ground on 69-acre redevelopment to create Seattle innovation hub

The University of Washington this year expects to break ground on a new building that will anchor an ambitious, innovation-focused… Read More

Windows 11 devices will get new ‘Copilot’ AI key — biggest change to keyboards in nearly 30 years

AI is coming to the PC keyboard. Microsoft and computer makers plan to start shipping Windows 11 notebooks and other… Read More

SpaceX launches the first set of Starlink satellites for T-Mobile’s direct-to-cell plan

The first satellites capable of providing direct-to-cellular service via SpaceX’s Starlink network and T-Mobile’s cellular network have been sent into… Read More

Curiosity, communication, and capital efficiency: Investors share their tips for startups in 2024

Be curious. Communicate openly and honestly. Maintain capital efficiency with a focus on growth. Those are some of the top… Read More

Portrait of Court Corley, chief scientist for AI at PNNL

Pacific Northwest National Lab’s chief scientist for AI finds links between tech and national security

Bringing artificial intelligence to bear on issues relating to nuclear weapons might sound like the stuff of a scary sci-fi… Read More

Amazon leader and Army vet launches Seattle wellness startup to support new moms

Yuzi founder Stephiney Foley graduated from West Point and worked for the U.S. Army for more than seven years, serving… Read More

Tech investors give their top predictions for 2024

The pace of AI-related innovation accelerated, to say the least, in 2023. Expect the same this year — or even… Read More