Matt Salsamendi was barely old enough to drive when he and James Boehm founded a game-streaming startup called Beam Interactive, based on technology that they had developed in their spare… Read More
Mixer has lost both of its co-founders as the Microsoft-owned streaming service looks to mount a challenge to the incumbent power in the market: Amazon’s Twitch. Matt Salsamendi, who co-founded… Read More
Almost a year ago, Microsoft acquired the Seattle-based Beam game streaming service, a member of the TechStars Seattle 2016 class, co-founded and led by Matt Salsamendi, then 18 years old.… Read More
Nine months after Microsoft’s Xbox group acquired Beam, the game streaming service is getting a new name and a host of new features. The service will now be called Mixer,… Read More
Microsoft today unveiled new game streaming technology that puts it in direct competition with Amazon and shows the fruits of an acquisition the company made earlier this year. At a Windows… Read More
Microsoft’s Xbox group announced Thursday that it has acquired Seattle-based interactive game streaming service Beam, bringing the Redmond, Wash.-based tech giant into an arena dominated by Amazon’s Twitch. Microsoft said in… Read More
Nine days after the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module was blown up to its full volume, astronauts entered the bedroom-sized BEAM compartment for the first time today and started hooking up… Read More
It took almost eight hours, but NASA accomplished the first expansion of a pop-up module at the International Space Station today, by inflating the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM.… Read More
Update: NASA will make its second attempt to inflate the Bigelow Expandable Space Module starting at around 6 a.m. PT Saturday. More details below. A multimillion-dollar pop-up room that NASA… Read More
After running a massive game server platform for four years, Matthew Salsamendi and his team realized how difficult it was for game streamers to interact with viewers. The 18-year-old CEO decided… Read More
DENVER – Bigelow Aerospace and United Launch Alliance have announced a plan to launch Bigelow’s B330 expandable space module aboard an Atlas 5 rocket in 2020, to serve as a destination… Read More
SpaceX launched a Dragon cargo capsule today with an expandable module for the International Space Station, and then successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on an oceangoing… Read More
For the first time, SpaceX is due to launch an entire room to the International Space Station – a room that can go into orbit folded up, and then be expanded… Read More
When you can’t leave your bed, you can’t explore the world. But what if you could? The Seattle Art Museum is testing technology that would allow people to tour its… Read More