8:00 AM PST Geek Life8:00 AM PST ‘Five good books for a lousy year’: Bill Gates turns the page on 2020 with his annual holiday list
7:48 AM PST Health/Life Sciences7:48 AM PST Athira Pharma wins $15M grant from National Institute on Aging for trial of Alzheimer’s drug
6:01 AM PST Podcast How to take on Amazon without getting crushed: Advice on tackling online retail’s 800-pound gorilla
12:01 AM PST Startups12:01 AM PST Recurrent raises $3.5M to power the data science behind its reports on used electric car batteries
1:42 PM PST Tech1:42 PM PST Smartsheet shares soar 12% with $98.9M in Q3 revenue, up 38%; company reveals new CFO
1:36 PM PST Science1:36 PM PST ‘Smellicopter’ takes flight at UW with moth antenna on drone to fly toward smells and avoid obstacles
12:58 PM PST Space12:58 PM PST SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network wins $885M in federal aid for rural broadband
10:49 AM PST Health/Life Sciences10:49 AM PST Melinda Gates talks about vaccine disinformation and calls for Biden to appoint caregiving ‘czar’
8:00 AM PST Startups8:00 AM PST Ex-Amazon engineer raises $500K to grow voice tech platform used by Whirlpool, LG, others
6:54 AM PST Amazon6:54 AM PST First glimpse of Amazon’s new robotaxi: Zoox autonomous vehicle spotted during video shoot
6:00 AM PST Startups6:00 AM PST Agriculture tech startup iUNU raises $7M for greenhouse computer vision system
1:00 PM PST Tech1:00 PM PST Book excerpt: How activists must harness new technologies to change the world
10:00 AM PST Startups10:00 AM PST How an all-girls high school prepped this exec for the male-dominated field of software engineering
8:00 AM PST GeekWire Weekly8:00 AM PST Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Nov. 29, 2020
9:00 AM PST Geek of the Week9:00 AM PST Geek of the Week: Brightloom’s Jacqueline Nolis wrote the book on how to become a data scientist
8:30 AM PST Geek Life8:30 AM PST Skateboard startup: Here’s how two Seattle teens launched a business during the grind of COVID
7:56 AM PST Podcast GeekWire Podcast: Seattle region’s new tech giant; ‘Slackforce’ analysis; AWS re:Invent takeaways
7:36 PM PST Startups7:36 PM PST Battery Ventures makes majority investment in Seattle enterprise security startup DomainTools
12:29 PM PST Games12:29 PM PST The long road back to normal: Penny Arcade Expo announces event dates for 2021
10:26 AM PST Space10:26 AM PST Jeff Bezos shows off Blue Origin’s BE-7 engine — and makes a bold prediction
8:53 AM PST Startups8:53 AM PST Advice for women who want to join a board — and why gender balance in the boardroom is important
8:32 PM PST Health/Life Sciences8:32 PM PST Silverback Therapeutics prices IPO at $21/share, will raise $241M in 4th Wash. state IPO of 2020
6:00 PM PST Artificial Intelligence6:00 PM PST President Trump signs an executive order guiding how federal agencies use AI tech
4:37 PM PST Games4:37 PM PST Washington state ranks No. 2 nationwide for annual video game industry economic output at $11.6B
2:02 PM PST Transportation2:02 PM PST AAA’s GIG car-sharing service expands in Seattle, filling void left by ReachNow, car2go, Lime
12:36 PM PST Space12:36 PM PST NASA agrees to purchase moon rocks for $1 in a deal that may involve Blue Origin
11:05 AM PST Health/Life Sciences11:05 AM PST Washington State U. launches ‘Spinout Space in Spokane’ incubator for life sciences startups
10:42 AM PST Amazon10:42 AM PST Microsoft doubles down on cloud data with new products, makes new appeal to Amazon’s rivals
10:16 AM PST Civic10:16 AM PST Bill Gates calls for creation of National Institutes of Energy Innovation to better address climate change
