Robotics pioneers from Carnegie Mellon University, who made their mark in the aftermath of the Three Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear disasters, are revisiting their heritage with a cutting-edge new… Read More
Drone deliveries are coming. While some autonomous transportation technologies like self-driving cars are still years or even decades away from entering our everyday lives, you can expect to receive packages… Read More
From inside a lab at the University of Pittsburgh to a local Dunkin Donuts shop and finally to Major League Baseball, it’s been a quite the sports technology adventure for… Read More
Putting a supercomputer in a package that’s roughly the size of a loaf of bread is one thing. Making sure the supercomputer is radiation-hardened to survive the harsh conditions of… Read More
PITTSBURGH — It’s not just the graduate students and PhD researchers inside Carnegie Mellon University’s top-ranked computer science school that are helping shape the future of technology. For six winter… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Ron Bianchini was creating and selling tech startups long before it was the cool thing to do in this city. After earning his masters and Ph.D in electrical… Read More
PITTSBURGH — What an incredible experience. A rotating cast of GeekWire reporters and editors spent the month of February 2018 covering the technology community in Pittsburgh, reporting on this city’s… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Last fall, after we solicited proposals to establish our own temporary “GeekWire HQ2” somewhere in North America, we received submissions from cities around the country to set up… Read More
Cities with booming tech economies around the country face an existential crisis. How can they maintain their cultural identity and diversity amid job growth that contributes to wealth inequality and… Read More
Aurora, a newcomer in the race to develop self-driving vehicles, put a little fuel in the tank today as the company raised $90 million in series A financing from Greylock… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Marya Sea Kaminski loved her first date with Pittsburgh. The associate artistic director at Seattle Repertory Theater had never been to the Steel City, but she visited last… Read More
You’ve no doubt covered a flashlight with your hand in a dark room. Light from the flashlight’s beam makes your hand glow red and orange as it bounces off skin,… Read More
PITTSBURGH — It’s Sunday morning and the Strip District sizzles with tourists hitting up President Obama’s favorite breakfast spot. Others duck into one of the many immigrant-owned markets along Penn… Read More
PITTSBURGH — With his photographic eye on Pittsburgh from the inside, Chancelor Humphrey can see why people are becoming more and more attracted to the city from the outside. The… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Janera Solomon was raised in Pittsburgh from the age of 10, and left after college to pursue a career in arts management before returning home in 2007. For… Read More
PITTSBURGH — At 5:24 p.m. on the first Friday of Lent, the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church runs out of fish. A disappointed line of Catholics and non-Catholics alike fills… Read More
Pittsburgh officials are pushing back on a ruling demanding the city release its proposal for Amazon’s second headquarters. Late Friday afternoon, the city and Allegheny County appealed a decision by… Read More
You know Siri and Alexa. Maybe even Cortana. But have you met Sara? She’s pretty amazing. Sure, she can do basic tasks, like help you find a movie that you… Read More
Cathy Wissink moved to Pittsburgh only four months ago but she’s already experienced the collaborative nature of the Steel City. That’s important for Wissink, a director of technology and civic… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Karla Boos describes herself as a high-level, outside-the-box wizard. For the past 27 years, as the founder and artistic director of the Quantum Theatre Company in Pittsburgh, Boos… Read More
PITTSBURGH — At times, it’s hard to keep up with Luis von Ahn. The Duolingo CEO and co-founder speaks quickly, ideas flowing out of a mind that helped the Guatemalan… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Local politicians weren’t coy about their desire for Amazon’s second headquarters during a media event Thursday to announce an expansion of the company’s engineering office in Pittsburgh. Amazon… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Andy Warhol made his mark as a pop artist throughout the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, but his pioneering spirit and appreciation for inclusiveness would be right at home in… Read More
PITTSBURGH — After pulling off Route 8 and rounding the corner up a steep hill lined with leafless trees, it became clear this wasn’t going to be an ordinary story… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Asked if he will eventually land a robot on the moon, William “Red” Whittaker doesn’t hold back. “Oh, hell yes,” says the Carnegie Mellon University roboticist, showing the… Read More
PITTSBURGH — I’m sitting on the floor of a small office in the Lawrenceville neighborhood surrounded by machines that would fit right in with a movie about the robot uprising.… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Rosemary Mendel’s job is getting kids excited about robotics, a technology at the heart of her city’s innovation economy. Mendel grew up in New Castle, Pa. and attended… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Amazon will add 125 new jobs to its engineering center here, more than doubling its footprint and escalating the competition for tech talent in a city where big… Read More
I bought my house in Seattle way back when people who didn’t build software for a living were still able to afford houses. Now, as someone who is old enough… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Neighborhoods across this city have been through lots of change over the past several decades, but perhaps none more so than East Liberty. A thriving commercial district throughout… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Longtime residents of this city like the idea of Amazon HQ2 in their city, have strong impressions of Seattle, and have a clear preference between Bill Gates and… Read More
Looking for a literary tie between Seattle and Pittsburgh? It may seem as hard to find as a unicorn. But it actually involves a unicorn. When the Science Fiction and… Read More
PITTSBURGH — In a room full of people at Concept Art Gallery in this city’s Regent Square neighborhood, Vanessa German was far from silent. The celebrated artist used her powerful… Read More
PITTSBURGH — My favorite thing to do when I get to any new city is to wake up relatively early and take a walk. As a photographer, I appreciate that… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Rabih Helou’s company is called Beauty Shoppe, but it’s actually an operator of coworking spaces, and it has become an institution in this city through a string of high-profile… Read More
PITTSBURGH — The idea of ubiquitous over-the-air wireless charging is a dream for people living in a tangled web of charging cords and adapters. Walk within range of the wireless… Read More
A year and a half ago, Katrina Flora returned to Pittsburgh after a decade away from her hometown. She first left to attend the University of Washington in Seattle, pursuing… Read More
PITTSBURGH — In preparing for this story, I was all set to describe in detail how I had been soundly defeated by Baby Tartanian8, a poker bot built by some… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Sonja Finn doesn’t think we should be fighting over one slice of the pie. That maxim dictates just about everything Finn does. It’s why tipping is verboten at… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Inside this city’s startup launchpad, Adhithi Aji shows off a smart flexible label that captures consumer product usage data from shampoo bottles and dog food bins. Seated on a… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Deep within Amazon’s request for proposals for its second North American headquarters, in a section about logistics, is this sentence: “Travel time to an international airport with daily… Read More
More than 125,000 people receive an organ transplant every year. The procedure could replace a failing heart, lungs or kidneys, or even help recipients see for the first time in their… Read More
PITTSBURGH — PGH Lab, a startup incubator led by the city of Pittsburgh, today announced its third class of companies. The eight companies represent an expansion for the program, which… Read More
PITTSBURGH — As the technology industry fuels economic growth in this city, community leaders want to make sure all residents have a chance to participate. The latest example of that… Read More
PITTSBURGH — This city’s tech clout has grown immensely in recent years, yet it is often said that Pittsburgh still suffers from a lack of venture capital to fuel startups.… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Christopher Wilmer is a chemical engineer at the University of Pittsburgh, an assistant professor in the Swanson School of Engineering’s Chemical & Petroleum Engineering Department who uses computer… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Far before humans understood the basics of modern medicine, our immune systems protected our bodies from microscopic invaders and battled deadly diseases. Now, scientists in the emerging field… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Rich Fitzgerald is confident he can forge a mutually beneficial partnership between Amazon and Pittsburgh if the region wins the tech giant’s second headquarters, but the Allegheny County… Read More
Edge computing will change many of the underlying assumptions that applications make in the era of cloud and mobile computing, and a new project led by Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University… Read More
PITTSBURGH — So much has changed, in this city and in the technology world, since Rick Rashid arrived in 1979 as a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Pittsburgh… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Economic development officials around the country are competing for Amazon’s $5 billion second headquarters, which promises 50,000 jobs to the chosen city, but the massive corporate project doesn’t… Read More
PITTSBURGH — David Danks thinks a lot about the implications of artificial intelligence. In fact, the Carnegie Mellon University philosophy and psychology professor presented his very first research paper at an… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Seattleites like to point to the San Francisco Bay Area as a case study in problems to avoid: skyrocketing housing prices, traffic congestion, and economic inequality. Well, look… Read More
Bill Gates made his money in software, Andrew Carnegie in steel. And while roughly a century separates these two hard-charging titans of industry, they are connected not through the massive… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Two years ago, Kelauni Cook moved from North Dakota to Pittsburgh chasing an opportunity she couldn’t pass up. Academy Pittsburgh was offering a free, 12-week coding bootcamp designed… Read More
PITTSBURGH — AlphaLab Gear’s Hardware Cup event on Tuesday evening served as a reminder of this city’s robotics chops and growing startup ecosystem. Six hardware startups pitched their ideas to… Read More
PITTSBURGH — The education and healthcare giants of this city represent some of Pittsburgh’s biggest advantages in the new economy. But those institutions also present a challenge, as tax-exempt nonprofits… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Mark Whitaker chronicles one of this city’s most fascinating eras in his new book, “Smoketown: The Untold Story of the Other Great Black Renaissance” — writing about Pittsburgh’s… Read More
PITTSBURGH — This city punches above its weight in the innovation economy, but Pittsburgh is still working to compete on the level of larger tech hubs like Boston, Seattle, and… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Walking through Uber’s self-driving center feels like something out of a movie, or a step into the future. As part of our ongoing GeekWire HQ2 coverage this month, we visited Uber’s… Read More
PITTSBURGH — What the heck is with all the coverage from this place all of a sudden? We know that many GeekWire readers have been asking this question over the… Read More
PITTSBURGH — At a mall in Sydney, Australia, “the world’s first smart trash can” is fastidiously photographing, weighing, and sorting garbage. The industrious TrashBot is a long way from home.… Read More
PITTSBURGH — When Uber started eyeing this city as a testing ground for self-driving cars back in 2016, Mayor Bill Peduto decided to “roll out the red carpet,” in his… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Our first self-driving car experience was going great. And then we hit a pothole. We were riding in Uber’s Volvo XC90 SUV, one of 200 self-driving cars operated… Read More
PITTSBURGH — The stunning 14-foot cross suspended above the altar at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral was constructed of steel, glass and aluminum in the 1960s, symbolizing the city’s major industries of… Read More
PITTSBURGH — With bone-chilling temperatures dipping into the teens and a light dusting of snow on the ground, Pittsburgh’s bitter cold can freeze nose hairs in minutes. But then you… Read More
Pittsburghers love to party. We learned that on Thursday night as more than 200 people gathered at the second floor offices of Birchmere Ventures, which hosted team GeekWire for a… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Petuum moved into its new office 10 months ago. Now, the early-stage startup is already planning to expand into new space that is four times larger, either in the same… Read More
PITTSBURGH — One of the highlights of our first week here was the chance to sit down with Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, one of the key figures behind this region’s… Read More
Matt Kowalczyk grew up about an hour outside of Pittsburgh in Youngstown, where residents “basically did one of four things: Work in the mill, work for GM, work for the… Read More
PITTSBURGH — The team at Panopto might be more excited than anyone else about the upcoming aerial connection from Seattle to Pittsburgh. The enterprise video company, which raised a $42.8 million… Read More
PITTSBURGH — Everywhere we go in Steel City, curious Pittsburghers have asked us some variety of the question: What do you think about Amazon HQ2 in Pittsburgh? Uber drivers. Salespeople.… Read More
PITTSBURGH — This is a city of steel bridges, mighty rivers, steep hills and classic architecture. It’s a place where unexpected pockets of beauty appear when you least expect it,… Read More
Back in June, Pittsburgh and Paris were unwittingly connected by a comment from President Donald Trump defending his decision to pull out of the international Paris agreement on climate change.… Read More
PITTSBURGH — In his 53 years on this planet and in this city, Bill Peduto has never seen a real period of growth in his hometown. He believes Amazon can… Read More
PITTSBURGH — When Google opened an engineering office in the Seattle area 14 years ago, it pioneered a movement of out-of-town tech giants setting up shop in the growing Pacific… Read More
Ask those in Pittsburgh’s thriving education technology community what makes the city different from other edtech hubs such as Silicon Valley, Boston or New York City, and a single word… Read More
PITTSBURGH — It’s snowing here tonight, but our first day at GeekWire’s temporary outpost in Pittsburgh was sunny and crisp, perfect for exploring this former industrial city and its colorful… Read More
As Managing Director of Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs, Geoff Entress is always looking to the future. It’s necessary as he connects founders with the innovations of tomorrow. But… Read More
PITTSBURGH — This city of bridges may be a long-shot for Amazon’s second headquarters. But residents here would certainly welcome the tech giant to their home, with some conditions. That… Read More
Along the muddy Monongahela River in Pittsburgh sits a massive stretch of undeveloped land fertile with possibility. This gritty brownfield is the former J&L Steel mill, once so critical to… Read More
Depending on who you talk to, or listen to, the popular belief is that there’s not really a distinct accent in Seattle. If you’re from the Northeast United States, or… Read More
Pennsylvania’s Office of Open Records sided with journalists this week, ruling that Pittsburgh’s Amazon HQ2 bid is a public record and should be released within 30 days. The decision, in… Read More
Julia Erickson has found her calling in Pittsburgh, both as an artist and entrepreneur. The Seattle native moved to the Steel City in 2001. After graduating from the University of… Read More
After more than 15 years away — most spent working for Amazon in Seattle — Mark Stabingas returned to Pittsburgh to find a city transformed. He was born and raised… Read More
Decades before the NBA and Shark Tank, years before making his fortune in tech, Mark Cuban was a kid growing up in Pittsburgh, selling garbage bags to scrounge together enough money… Read More
Very few people are in a better position to explain Pittsburgh to a bunch of Seattle-based technology journalists than Siddhartha “Sidd” Srinivasa. The robotics expert founded Carnegie Mellon University’s Personal… Read More
There’s already been a lot of buzz this week about HQ2. But Amazon is not the only Seattle upstart that’s making waves with a second headquarters. Here at GeekWire, we’re… Read More
Curious how GeekWire decided to plant its flag in Pittsburgh for the month of February? Several members of the team sat down Tuesday to talk about how we narrowed down… Read More
From the “Portal to the Pacific” to the “Paris of Appalachia,” we’re packing our bags for Pittsburgh. That’s right, we’re bringing our unique brand of tech, science and innovation news… Read More
It’s down to the final four: Cincinnati, Denver, Pittsburgh, and Raleigh. Team GeekWire has been poring over submissions from cities all over the country eager to host GeekWire HQ2 for the month of… Read More
GeekWire started more than six years ago in a loft space in Seattle’s Pioneer Square neighborhood, later expanding to the back tables of a gritty coffee shop in Seattle’s Greenwood… Read More