GeekWire Podcasts – Page 20 of 37

Mar 17, 2018, 7:30 AM

Week In Geek podcast: A time machine back to the ’80s, and a juicy dispute over a new apple

On this episode of the Week In Geek podcast, we take a trip back to the heyday of Walkmen and the… Read More

Mar 14, 2018, 12:00 PM

Library of Congress saves the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus and other online ‘web cultures’

If you had to describe the unique “culture” of the web by highlighting a bunch of websites, would you choose… Read More

Mar 10, 2018, 7:00 AM

Week In Geek Podcast: Uber and Lyft meet healthcare, and is Amazon good for Seattle?

Is Amazon good for Seattle? That’s the question a community forum asked this week, with civic leaders arguing both sides.… Read More

Mar 8, 2018, 10:35 AM

Outreach, training and ‘culture add’: How tech can turn the corner on diversity and inclusion

Inclusion. Culture fit. Unconscious bias. These words are buzzing through the technology industry as the “Me Too” movement and a… Read More

Mar 3, 2018, 7:30 AM

Week In Geek Podcast: Common sense for AI, Amazon vs. Google in smart-home security

It was a big week for AI. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced he’s putting $125 million towards a new initiative… Read More

Feb 24, 2018, 7:00 AM

Week In Geek Podcast: Tech tangles with politics over net neutrality and government incentives

The tech industry’s entanglements with politics were on full display this week. Washington and other states are fighting the FCC’s… Read More

Feb 21, 2018, 7:02 PM

GeekWire Podcast: MIT’s president on human intelligence and the quest for smarter machines

Can a better understanding of human intelligence make for smarter machines? We explored that topic this week with Rafael Reif,… Read More

Feb 18, 2018, 8:00 AM

Dystopia or utopia? Author and futurist Ramez Naam revisits his 2015 predictions for the world

At GeekWire, we don’t mind being held accountable for our predictions. But if we can hold others accountable — well,… Read More

Feb 17, 2018, 7:07 AM

Week in Geek Podcast: Why Amazon cut hundreds of jobs the same week it became a $700B company

Amazon cut hundreds of jobs this week, but the company is still increasing its workforce overall, and market value continues… Read More

Feb 12, 2018, 4:44 PM

Scaling to optimism: Futurist, author and computer scientist Ramez Naam on the power of cheap tech

If you were to ask globally known clean energy expert Ramez Naam what makes him optimistic about technology and the… Read More

Feb 10, 2018, 4:01 AM

Week In Geek Podcast: Whole Foods delivery via Amazon Prime Now, and a special dispatch from GeekWire HQ2

It was a busy news week from coast to coast at GeekWire. This episode of the Week In Geek comes… Read More

Feb 3, 2018, 7:20 AM

Week In Geek Podcast: Amazon’s new healthcare company explained, and inside the Amazon Spheres

Amazon had a big week. The company announced plans to found a new healthcare company in partnership with bank JPMorgan… Read More

Jan 27, 2018, 2:43 PM

Week in Geek Podcast: A $9B biotech deal and a look at Pittsburgh’s tech renaissance

GeekWire is going to Pittsburgh to cover the city’s tech renaissance, the challenges it faces as it grows and the… Read More

Jan 18, 2018, 1:46 PM

Week In Geek Podcast: Shortlist surprises, shoe-ins and controversy in Amazon’s search for HQ2

Amazon has announced a shortlist of 20 cities that are in the running to land its $5 billion second headquarters —… Read More

Jan 13, 2018, 7:45 AM

Week In Geek Podcast: We meet our ping-pong robot overlords, and a big shift in venture capital funding

It’s no average week for the tech world — in fact, this week marked the biggest tech event in the U.S.,… Read More

Jan 6, 2018, 8:55 AM

Week in Geek Podcast: Inside the Motel 6 data privacy case, and Microsoft’s AI health investment

Consumer data privacy breaches are often in the headlines, but this week brought different type of case: Washington state is… Read More

Jan 6, 2018, 7:41 AM

What are Meltdown and Spectre? GeekWire’s guide to the problems with the world’s computer chips

Meltdown and Spectre. You’ve probably been hearing these terms a lot. These are vulnerabilities discovered in many of the computer… Read More

Dec 30, 2017, 6:10 AM

Year in Geek Podcast: How Amazon and Trump shaped tech’s year, and what to expect in 2018

2017 is a year for the history books. Between political unrest, historic natural disasters and leaps forward in innovation, this… Read More

Dec 28, 2017, 9:24 AM

How to take great smartphone pics: Photographer Chase Jarvis shows the potential of the iPhone X

How can you take great pictures on your smartphone? And is the iPhone X really a step up in camera… Read More

Dec 23, 2017, 6:45 AM

Week in Geek: Magic Leap’s first product revealed; what Bill Gates gave his Secret Santa; and more

Secretive augmented reality startup Magic Leap finally lifted the veil on its first product this week: Magic Leap One, a… Read More

Dec 19, 2017, 11:30 AM

Our AI future: How artificial intelligence will revolutionize jobs, and what we can do about it

Artificial intelligence will change the world, for better and for worse — and we need to be prepared. That’s the… Read More

Dec 16, 2017, 6:00 AM

Net neutrality showdown pits Washington state vs. Washington D.C.

On Thursday, the FCC voted to roll back regulations that protected net neutrality, or the rule that internet providers can’t… Read More

Dec 14, 2017, 5:45 AM

An ‘awesome year’? Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann has a radical view on 2017

It would be easy for Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to look back on 2017… Read More

Dec 10, 2017, 12:49 PM

Interview: UK’s senior official in Silicon Valley and Seattle talks Brexit, drones, net neutrality and more

Andrew Whittaker is the British Consul General representing the United Kingdom in Northern California, Oregon, Washington and other portions of… Read More

Dec 9, 2017, 6:30 AM

Week in Geek Podcast: Elon Musk’s race to Mars takes some unexpected turns

Depending on how you see it, Elon Musk is either an innovative genius building the future of mankind or a… Read More

Dec 4, 2017, 12:04 PM

From Harry Potter to Star Trek Beyond, behind the scenes with Seattle Symphony’s multi-sensory tech

What do Casablanca, Star Trek Beyond, and Looney Tunes have in common? All have been accompanied on the big screen… Read More

Dec 2, 2017, 6:38 AM

Week in Geek Podcast: Our lunch with Anthony Bourdain, Microsoft’s campus revamp, and Big Fish jumps again

On this episode of the Week In Geek podcast, we go behind the scenes with GeekWire co-founders Todd Bishop and… Read More

Nov 26, 2017, 8:00 AM

Tech fad or real trend? Seattle’s Living Computers Museum + Labs places bets in newest exhibits

What makes a tech development a fad or a trend? Sometimes, the answer isn’t clear. Yet trend-or-fad math appears to… Read More

Nov 23, 2017, 8:30 AM

Lessons from the Bushmen: How this tech-free society could foreshadow our technological future

Many people nowadays are concerned about the way technology is changing their lives. From worries about artificial intelligence taking jobs,… Read More

Nov 22, 2017, 12:00 PM

How this museum makes moldy machines work again, saving historic computers for the future

It came from a garage in North Carolina. “We’d been looking for many years for an IBM 360,” Lath Carlson… Read More