The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence has established a new startup incubator at its offices in Seattle, recruiting two high-level researchers who will try to develop technologies in the emerging… Read More
One of the most popular features of the old Farecast travel search engine has taken its last voyage. MIcrosoft, which paid $115 million for the Seattle-based company six years ago… Read More
Over the past decade, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has committed $500 million toward understanding the brain through his Allen Institute for Brain Science — aiming to ultimately transform the treatment… Read More
In 2008, Oren Etzioni sold his airfare price predictor startup Farecast to Microsoft. The Redmond software giant took the technology from Farecast and it became the basis for the price… Read More
Oren Etzioni hates taking risks. His first car was a Volvo, for example, and he’d just rather play it safe more often than not. But that risk is defined in terms… Read More
A few weeks ago, I interviewed Madrona Venture Group’s Matt McIlwain and asked him pointedly to name one missing ingredient that’s holding back Seattle’s technology community. The veteran venture capitalist… Read More
It’s been nearly two years since we first encountered Wavii. Operating in the equivalent of a bunker, the Seattle startup has offered just a few clues of the news aggregation… Read More
As journalists and participants in the Pacific Northwest tech community, we’ve long believed that Seattle deserves a world-class tech conference that involves people not only from our region but also from other tech… Read More
Our new Geek of the Week, Oren Etzioni, is a computer scientist and serial entrepreneur who has a knack for building businesses based on complex algorithms that help people make… Read More
Like Scotty in Star Trek, the day is coming soon when we’ll talk with our computers instead of just typing at them, according to a prominent UW computer scientist and… Read More