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Surprise delivery: Amazon HQ receives 150k signatures urging company to stop selling facial recognition software to cops

Amazon received an unexpected delivery Monday afternoon when community leaders dropped off four big boxes of signatures urging the company… Read More

Bill Gates to meet with President Trump at the White House, plans to stress importance of foreign aid

After meetings with Ireland’s prime minister and the American Petroleum Institute, President Trump on Thursday will sit down with Microsoft… Read More

Bill Gates warns tech giants that a government crackdown may be in their future

Bill Gates believes the world’s biggest tech companies are “absolutely” behaving in a manner that risks major government intervention. The… Read More

Internet Association, a powerful Silicon Valley lobby, is opening an office in Seattle

Internet Association — which lobbies on behalf of top tech companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Airbnb and Uber — is… Read More

Senate abandons plan to tax stock options at vesting after backlash from the tech industry

The tech industry is breathing a sigh of relief this morning because the U.S. Senate has ditched its plan to… Read More

Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel just made an announcement about growth that you’d never hear in Seattle

Seattle may hold first place when it comes to the number of cranes dotting the skyline, but you aren’t likely… Read More

Working Geek: Socrata product lead Franklin Williams makes it easier for citizens to access public data

Franklin Williams believes he has “the best job in the world.” That’s because he spends his days leading Socrata‘s product… Read More

What Microsoft thinks Washington state lawmakers got right last session — and what they should prioritize now

Microsoft wants the Washington state legislature to prioritize STEM education, criminal justice reform, workplace equity, cloud computing for the public… Read More

Commentary: Why Seattle’s next mayor must partner with the tech community

[Editor’s note: Bill Schrier is the former chief technology officer for the City of Seattle, working under the administrations of Mayor… Read More

Steve Ballmer launches USAFacts, using business principles for an unprecedented government report

Steve Ballmer is a numbers guy. The former Microsoft CEO and current L.A. Clippers owner was renowned for using data… Read More

State Capitol

Scaled-back bill aimed at providing clarity on non-compete deals passes Washington House 97-0

A trimmed-back bill to change what is allowed in non-compete agreements passed the Washington House 97-0 Wednesday. It now goes… Read More

Seattle City Council hopeful says he’ll let constituents control his decisions with an app

What happens when a politician crowdsources every policy decision? Ryan Asbert, a 31-year-old freelance web developer, intends to find out. He’s planning… Read More

This is how actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt thinks we can fix education, journalism, and government

LAS VEGAS — Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the lifelong actor who starred in Inception, 500 Days of Summer, and most recently Snowden, thinks online… Read More

Washington Gov. Inslee pushes for broad adoption of new computer science education standards

TUMWATER, Wash. — Gov. Jay Inslee wants 50 percent of Washington’s schools to meet new computer education standards by early… Read More

Startup Spotlight: Democracy Live uses electronic ballots to help governments reach voters

Last month marked a big milestone for Democracy Live, a technology firm based in Snoqualmie, Wash., which presented its voting technology to several… Read More

Bye, bye BlackBerry: U.S. Senate no longer purchasing trusted device, opening door for iPhones and Samsungs

On this Independence Day, the U.S. Senate is getting a little smartphone independence. U.S. Senators and staff were informed in a memo… Read More

Microsoft teams up with ‘seed to sale’ marijuana company to build government software

Recreational marijuana is legal in four states and the District of Columbia, but many financial institutions and other big businesses… Read More

Microsoft outlines new policies for dealing with terrorist content

The threat of terrorism has escalated the age-old battle between national security and individual rights — and technology companies are often… Read More

Amazon cuts off sales to Iranian embassies after discovering $100k in purchases over 3 years

Amazon has some loyal customers inside Iran’s embassies around the world — but they won’t be buying items from the… Read More

Public universities don’t reveal how student data is shared with local law enforcement and feds

Apple’s refusal to unlock an iPhone for the FBI has sparked a legal war, and a nationwide debate over law… Read More

Tim Cook

In Apple vs. FBI, the U.S. public sides with law enforcement

Those worried about the U.S. government finding ways to disable encryption in consumer technologies have a lot more explaining to do.  The American… Read More

Obama’s 2017 federal budget gets a visual makeover from Socrata

The federal budget has never been particularly pretty. At thousands of pages long with many complicated details and subsections, the… Read More

Tech Moves: thePlatform’s Marty Roberts out as co-CEO; City of Seattle hires new startup advocate

— ThePlatform confirmed to GeekWire on Monday that longtime executive and current co-CEO Marty Roberts is leaving the Comcast-owned video… Read More

Former Amazon VP leaving CIO role at Seattle Police Department after 6 months

Greg Russell, the former Amazon vice president who was named chief information officer of the Seattle Police Department six months ago,… Read More

The worst cities for traffic jams: Where booming Seattle and San Francisco rank

See update below on questions surrounding this study’s approach. It’s getting a lot harder to move around Seattle. But at… Read More

City of Seattle plans broadband options for low-income residents as part of Obama’s ConnectHome initiative

Low-income Seattle residents may be able to access broadband Internet for little or no cost under a nationwide pilot program.… Read More

Remote Medical International receives $95M USAID contract to deliver HIV rapid test kits to remote areas

Remote Medical International, a 12-year-old organization that specializes in delivering medical supplies and personnel to remote locations, today announced a $95 million… Read More

President Obama planning executive order to encourage sharing of cybersecurity threats

President Obama is set announce an executive order to direct greater sharing of information about cybersecurity threats between large companies and… Read More

Zillow Chairman and former U.S. Deputy CTO tout open government data at housing hackathon

Zillow Chairman Rich Barton and former U.S. Deputy CTO Nick Sinai kicked off a weekend hackathon Friday night where 400+… Read More

Inside the Seattle Police hackathon: A substantial first step

The Seattle Police Department (SPD) held its first-ever hackathon on Friday. The event was focused on a single problem: How… Read More

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