President Donald Trump’s tweets made news yet again early on Wednesday, though this time is certainly unique. You may have already seen the #covfefe hashtag going around. That’s because Trump… Read More
In a dystopian episode of “Black Mirror,” a hacker tracked and seized control of robotic bees, and the Trump administration is reportedly looking into ways to do that with drones. But instead of… Read More
At Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting in Seattle this morning, the company’s leaders trumpeted its growth, charitable giving, and international expansion, but several shareholders were more interested in hearing about Amazon’s… Read More
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in town for the annual Microsoft CEO Summit this week, and he had some time to squeeze in a meeting with Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.… Read More
RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser is putting his money where his mouth, or in this case, keyboard, is. His Glaser Progress Foundation is donating $200,000 to a $500,000 Mother Jones project called “Trumpocracy:… Read More
President Donald Trump today signed a long-awaited executive order aimed at beefing up cybersecurity at federal government agencies – with a shift of computer capabilities to the cloud as a key… Read More
Humans on Mars by 2024? President Donald Trump set that time frame today, almost certainly in jest, during a congratulatory video call to the International Space Station and its record-setting… Read More
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The scenery for the world’s most watched March for Science may have featured the political icons of the nation’s capital, but the weather was pure Seattle. Today’s rally… Read More
Long before he became real estate powerhouse CBRE’s head of research for the Americas, Spencer Levy was a young lawyer in New York City. One of his first clients was a… Read More
If someone can send a Donald Trump bobblehead tribute up into the stratosphere on a balloon, we suppose it’s only fair that a protest of President Trump’s policies can go… Read More
Virgin Atlantic founder Richard Branson is clearly unhappy with President Donald Trump – and he thinks that a different sort of business leader, such as former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg,… Read More
President Donald Trump may be beaming over a newly signed law that calls on NASA to look into sending astronauts to Mars by 2033, but not Elon Musk. SpaceX’s billionaire CEO is… Read More
President Donald Trump today signed legislation laying out the broad agenda for NASA’s journey to Mars – but not to a near-Earth asteroid – and signaled that Vice President Mike Pence would… Read More
President Donald Trump today announced his intent to nominate longtime Boeing executive Patrick Shanahan as deputy secretary of defense, the Pentagon’s No. 2 civilian spot. Shanahan, 54, currently oversees Boeing’s manufacturing… Read More
Today’s White House outline for a “skinny budget” covering $1.15 trillion in discretionary spending aims a sharp blow at federally funded research on topics ranging from agriculture to zoonotic diseases – and is… Read More
AUSTIN, TX. — Dean Baquet is gearing up for what he believes will be a historic few years for the journalism industry — in large part thanks to President Donald Trump.… Read More
Nearly 55 years ago, President John F. Kennedy said America chose to go to the moon and take on other challenges “not because they are easy, but because they are… Read More
President Trump has tapped a top aide of Peter Thiel (best known for co-founding PayPal, investing in Facebook, and killing Gawker) as deputy chief technology officer. Michael Kratsios, who worked… Read More
President Donald Trump referred to technology and science in only the most general terms tonight in his speech to a joint session of Congress, evoking a vision of curing illnesses… Read More
President Donald Trump will give a speech to a joint session of Congress at 6 p.m. PT tonight, 40 days into his U.S. presidency. In his first big speech after… Read More
On a Friday afternoon earlier this month, nearly a dozen news alerts were pushed to my phone announcing that a Boston judge had ruled to enforce President Donald Trump’s ban… Read More
Nearly a decade after leaving his full-time job at Microsoft, Bill Gates sat down with GeekWire for an extensive interview about his work at the Gates Foundation, progress in global… Read More
“It was the biggest single gift anyone ever gave anybody for anything.” That’s how Bill and Melinda Gates describe Warren Buffett’s $30 billion donation in an open letter to the… Read More
If the world were a PC operating system, some of us would probably be ready to reboot. You know, just to see if that fixes things. Bill Gates, who has experience… Read More
It looks like President Donald Trump’s promise to “SEE YOU IN COURT” might have been an empty threat. A day after the Ninth Circuit Court ruled to maintain Washington state’s… Read More
President Donald Trump wasn’t the only one hitting the all-caps key after word got out that a federal appeals court refused to reinstate his executive order on an immigration crackdown.… Read More
Airline and airport executives, including Alaska Air Group’s CEO, had their turn today to talk with President Donald Trump, who promised them lower taxes and fewer regulations as well as… Read More
Love trumps hate. That’s the takeaway from a website called Trump With Love that allows users to type in more tender words than they’re perhaps used to hearing from President… Read More
If you can join them, you can try beating them, too. Today SpaceX and Tesla signed on to the legal fight against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, even though the… Read More
The government needs a warrant to search your home or listen to your phone calls and, soon, it may also need one to view your old email. The U.S. House… Read More