8:00 AM PST GeekWire Weekly8:00 AM PST Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 28, 2021
6:00 AM PST Microsoft6:00 AM PST Surface saver: How Microsoft’s deal with the NFL turned into a marketing boon for its tablet
5:45 PM PST Tech5:45 PM PST First cases of Omicron variant found in Washington state; patients range from 20-39 years old
8:57 AM PST Podcast Immigration and tech: New realities, old problems, and what’s at stake for the future
8:23 AM PST Health/Life Sciences8:23 AM PST Univ. of Washington researchers to test psilocybin in healthcare workers affected by pandemic
8:02 AM PST Health/Life Sciences8:02 AM PST FDA gives clearance to sonar-based app that monitors breathing
11:22 AM PST Startups11:22 AM PST Seattle startup 98point6 appoints Jeff Greenstein as permanent CEO following leadership shuffle
10:23 AM PST Tech10:23 AM PST ‘Mind-blowing’ gift to Univ. of Washington computer science honors Ed Lazowska’s ongoing legacy
8:46 AM PST Startups8:46 AM PST Tech Moves: Lyft hires CFO from Amazon; Tomo adds CMO; Gopuff taps more Seattle talent
6:00 AM PST Geek Life6:00 AM PST Tech entrepreneurs opening Seattle NFT Museum to showcase digital artform in a physical space
6:49 PM PST Science6:49 PM PST Microsoft and KPMG will try out quantum algorithms on real-world problems
2:20 PM PST Real Estate2:20 PM PST Zillow says it’s making good progress on home sales as it exits house-flipping business, announces $750M stock repurchase
1:40 PM PST Space1:40 PM PST Blue Origin’s team wins a $130M share of NASA funding for commercial space stations
1:34 PM PST Games1:34 PM PST Reality check: Microsoft, David Bowie, Bill Gates, and a creepy video game called ‘Omikron’
10:58 AM PST Amazon10:58 AM PST Amazon’s ‘New World’ online game bans nearly 8,000 accounts for ‘botting’
10:48 AM PST Health/Life Sciences10:48 AM PST Tune Therapeutics launches with $40M in funding, aims to fine-tune activity of genes in cells
7:52 AM PST Health/Life Sciences7:52 AM PST Univ. of Washington deep learning researchers ‘hallucinate’ protein designs from scratch
7:57 PM PST Science7:57 PM PST How acoustics experts turned down the volume on the Space Needle’s makeover
4:14 PM PST Space4:14 PM PST Kymeta and OneWeb move ahead with flat panel terminal for satellite internet service
4:03 PM PST Tech Moves4:03 PM PST Longtime Amazon retail exec joins REI as its first chief commercial officer
2:58 PM PST Geek Life2:58 PM PST Soccer lovers and tech backers help launch new minor league team in Seattle with community focus
1:08 PM PST Microsoft1:08 PM PST Microsoft’s standalone ‘Teams Essentials’ service poses new challenge to Zoom and others
10:50 AM PST Startups10:50 AM PST Funding news: Upbound raises $60M for cloud infrastructure, competitive intelligence startup Klue lands $62M
10:16 AM PST Startups10:16 AM PST StormSensor raises $10M for rain management tech amid severe flooding across the world
9:36 AM PST Microsoft9:36 AM PST Investor presses Microsoft to release results of Bill Gates investigation after rare shareholder win
8:41 AM PST Health/Life Sciences8:41 AM PST Highlights from comedian Trevor Noah interviewing Fred Hutch COVID-19 researcher Trevor Bedford
5:00 AM PST Startups5:00 AM PST Climate tech funding news: BattGenie works its magic; lithium refining startup gets Gates’ support
