9:43 AM PST Tech Moves9:43 AM PST Social TV platform Scener adds Hulu’s David Baron as CEO and filmmaker J.J. Abrams as investor
8:32 AM PST Civic8:32 AM PST Controversial capital gains tax spooks wealthy Washington residents as some unload their stocks
6:00 AM PST Space6:00 AM PST Microsoft Azure widens its space ecosystem through deals with Airbus and data partners
5:45 PM PST Bot or Not5:45 PM PST Survey suggests 84% of Americans are illiterate about AI — so here’s a quiz to test your own AI IQ
11:53 AM PST Philanthropy11:53 AM PST MacKenzie Scott says ‘no dollar signs this time’ as she finds new value in philanthropy’s meaning
11:16 AM PST Amazon11:16 AM PST AWS and Washington state launch cloud training, but educators have big questions about rollout
11:11 AM PST Space11:11 AM PST Blue Origin delays its next suborbital space trip because of worries about Texas winds
10:48 AM PST Amazon10:48 AM PST Cloud wake-up call: Amazon Web Services outage illustrates the pitfalls of online infrastructure
10:10 AM PST Geek Life10:10 AM PST The Rock thanks his ‘tequila drinking buddy’ Jeff Bezos at People’s Choice Awards
9:03 AM PST Startups9:03 AM PST No-code AI: Former Microsoft and Salesforce execs reveal new ‘machine teaching’ startup Intelus
8:00 AM PST Startups8:00 AM PST University of Washington’s CoMotion incubator partners with T-Mobile to provide startups with 5G
6:00 AM PST Amazon6:00 AM PST Review: Amazon’s Halo View health tracker is a good second release, with some awkward quirks
7:01 PM PST Science7:01 PM PST Electric Sky wins DARPA grant to work on focused power beaming system for drones
5:43 PM PST Health/Life Sciences5:43 PM PST Report: Life sciences sector is booming as companies swoop up lab space and raise gobs of cash
2:10 PM PST Civic2:10 PM PST News publishers, including Seattle group, sue Google and Facebook over market dominance
1:47 PM PST Tech1:47 PM PST ‘Most unusual and difficult year of my life’: Personal and pandemic struggles aside, Bill Gates is hopeful
10:43 AM PST Tech10:43 AM PST Q&A with Vacasa CFO as vacation rental company goes public at $4.4B valuation
9:40 AM PST Amazon9:40 AM PST AWS problems impact Amazon, Disney, Smartsheet, Canva and other online services
7:44 AM PST Startups7:44 AM PST Edtech startup Bamboo Learning raises cash from ex-Amazon VPs and new ‘Day One Syndicate’
7:00 AM PST Startups7:00 AM PST Hospitality vet launches Route Line in drive to provide better access to adventure travel vehicles
6:00 AM PST Tech6:00 AM PST Torq is the latest security startup to land funding, raising $50M for automation software
4:00 AM PST Artificial Intelligence4:00 AM PST WellSaid and Five9 make bots sound more like humans when they take your call
9:01 PM PST Transportation9:01 PM PST Is traffic getting bad again? New report shows increased congestion, but not pre-pandemic levels
4:51 PM PST Tech4:51 PM PST Hometown hookup: Alaska Air shifts to T-Mobile from AT&T in new link between Seattle companies
1:50 PM PST Real Estate1:50 PM PST Meta grabbing more space in Bellevue’s Spring District with lease of fifth office building
12:22 PM PST Startups12:22 PM PST Outreach opens office in New York City as startup continues to grow presence outside Seattle
11:35 AM PST Impact Series11:35 AM PST Bezos Earth Fund awards $443M in grants, focus is on climate justice, saving and restoring nature
10:53 AM PST Health/Life Sciences10:53 AM PST Funding news: Cyrus lands $18M and buys startup developing COVID-19 therapeutic; Spare Labs snags $18M for mobility software
8:58 AM PST Civic8:58 AM PST Seattle-area counties’ experiment with on-demand, door-to-door public bus service is showing promise
1:01 AM PST Games1:01 AM PST Review: ‘Halo Infinite’ is the best single-player game yet from 343 Industries
