Seattle-area cultural institutions founded by the late Paul Allen, including the Cinerama movie theater and Living Computers Museum + Labs, face the possibility of permanent closure after Vulcan Inc. announced Wednesday that… Read More
Due to the coronavirus outbreak, many events listed on our community calendar have been postponed or canceled. Others have been changed to online-only events. If our calendar lists an event… Read More
— Former PayScale CFO Mark Klebanoff signed on with Amperity as chief operating officer. Klebanoff, who joined PayScale in 2013, previously worked with Amperity co-founders Kabir Shahani and Derek Slager at… Read More
— Microsoft President Brad Smith thinks the tech industry needs to be careful about new advances and think mindfully about how they’re possibly changing the world in a negative way.… Read More
— Do you remember where you were and what you were doing in 1995? Television was dominated by ER, Seinfeld, and Friends. Die Hard with a Vengeance and the original… Read More
— You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone in tech who doesn’t know about Visual Studio — and most of them probably use it. Now, with the launch of Visual Studio… Read More
— For the fifth year in a row, artists from the Pacific Northwest will showcase their work at The Seattle Art Fair beginning on Aug. 1 at the CenturyLink Field… Read More
— Lots of science fiction movies and television series feature alien life that looks, for the most part, like us. Star Trek in particular is filled with this representation of… Read More
— The 50th anniversary celebration of the moon landing continues at the Museum of Flight with the Lunar Block Party, July 19-21. The event is set to include various educational… Read More
— The Apollo Program and moon landing is a historic event captured in a variety of media. Movies, television, and books have all told the story of the 12 men… Read More
The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Timeline Book that sat between Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin for the moon landing 50 years ago is going up for auction, at a price… Read More
— Films based on characters from Marvel comics have dominated the box office for the first half of the year. Avengers: Endgame is even getting a re-release in the hopes… Read More
— Computers, at least the ones somewhat resembling what we know today, have been around since the mid-20th Century. Seattle is lucky enough to have some of the original gems… Read More
— It’s hard to find a new car these days that doesn’t have some type of technology inside, and those technologies are becoming more and more sophisticated. It’s no longer… Read More
— Atari Women, a University of Washington research project, is looking to give more limelight to the women who were crucial during the early age of game development. The group,… Read More
— When he invented the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee had a specific vision for how it would evolve, and things haven’t gone exactly as he planned. At its… Read More
A large police presence Thursday at Living Computers: Museum + Labs, the Seattle institution founded by the late Paul Allen, turned out to be because a person broke in and… Read More
Many will remember him as the co-founder of Microsoft, or the owner of the Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers. But Paul G. Allen had a deep and broad impact… Read More
GeekWire Summit attendees will spend the next two days in Seattle hearing from some of today’s leading innovators in the tech and science industries. On Monday night, they took a… Read More
A rare piece of computer history is headed to auction next month in Boston, shedding light yet again on the earliest work of Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The… Read More
On this episode of the Week In Geek podcast, we take a trip back to the heyday of Walkmen and the Apple IIe. GeekWire reporter Kurt Schlosser got to visit the… Read More
The Living Computers: Museum + Labs is built around important pieces and time periods as they relate to the history of computing. But with a new exhibit opening this week,… Read More
What makes a tech development a fad or a trend? Sometimes, the answer isn’t clear. Yet trend-or-fad math appears to be a never-ending calculation for Lath Carlson, executive director of… Read More
It came from a garage in North Carolina. “We’d been looking for many years for an IBM 360,” Lath Carlson explained. “A gentleman had passed away and … we bought… Read More
Modern video game competition has become a huge money maker, with pro players and teams battling in different e-sports and leagues and attracting giant audiences. On Thursday night at Living… Read More
The Living Computers: Museum + Labs in Seattle is home to some of the most noteworthy machines ever created. But a new exhibit opening this week will showcase what one… Read More
If you think the words “supercomputer” and “punchcards” don’t belong in the same sentence, you haven’t visited Seattle’s Living Computers Museum + Labs lately. One of the world’s first supercomputers has… Read More
The Seattle museum founded by Paul Allen as a means of preserving and honoring computer technology has undergone a name change and expansion to better serve future visitors. Living Computers: Museum… Read More