Stratolaunch, the space venture created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2011, today provided the first details about a new family of launch vehicles it has in the works, including… Read More
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You might be forgiven if you thought the fourth annual Seattle Art Fair would have a lot of expensive, big-name art. Yes, there is sculpture by Pablo Picasso, lithographs by… Read More
The Museum of Pop Culture, the Seattle-based institution founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2000 as a celebration of music and popular culture, is planning a second location in… Read More
Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital is among those raising an interested hand over a 3-year-old startup called CTRL-Labs, makers of a wristband that can pick up signals from the brain and… Read More
It’s traditional to revisit the gravesites of America’s fallen warriors on Memorial Day, but billionaire philanthropist Paul Allen is adding a non-traditional twist. Today the co-founder of Microsoft is highlighting… Read More
More than 500 employees and volunteers organized by Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc. will spend Friday hammering, sawing, painting, and assembling 30 tiny homes to provide temporary shelter for people currently living… Read More
Microsoft co-founder and Seattle real estate mogul Paul Allen donated $1 million to a new initiative that would enact tougher restrictions on the sale of semiautomatic weapons in Washington state.… Read More
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When it comes to the side projects of Seattle’s richest tech titans, billions of pixels are apparently as fun to play with as billions of dollars. While Jeff Bezos and… Read More
Score another undersea revelation for the crew of the Petrel, a research vessel backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. This time it’s the AE1, Australia’s first submarine and the first… Read More
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch space company says it’s on track to conduct the first test flight of its mammoth airplane this summer, and use it to… Read More
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s seagoing sleuths are reporting one more find in their quest to locate sunken military vessels from World War II. This time it’s the USS Helena, a… Read More
Space is hard: That used to be the excuse for explaining why sending people into space would always be something only governments could do. Now it explains why even billionaires… Read More
A scientific team supported by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is reporting the successful deployment of a trio of undersea drones to monitor how climate change affects Antarctica’s ice sheets. Now… Read More
It’s well documented that Paul Allen is an art fanatic by way of the museums (Museum of Pop Culture) and endeavors (Seattle Art Fair, Upstream Fest) he has created and… Read More
The latest chapter of an Irish-American family tragedy played out on St. Patrick’s Day when an expedition team backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen discovered the shipwreck of the USS… 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
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch space venture is returning to an idea it’s long mulled over: launching payloads, and possibly people, into orbit on a reusable space plane. The concept,… Read More
A team led by Paul Allen has done it again at the bottom of the sea, locating the wreckage of another long lost U.S. Navy warcraft. A crew working with… Read More
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen’s new $125 million initiative to give artificial intelligence programs more common sense has another goal that’s closer to home: making AI safer for humans. That’s the… Read More
Paul Allen is pouring more money into artificial intelligence research. The Microsoft co-founder on Wednesday announced Project Alexandria, a new initiative that aims to help develop “common sense AI.” Allen… Read More
Stratolaunch Systems, the space launch venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, says it put its super-duper-sized carrier plane through a fresh round of revved-up taxi tests last weekend at… Read More
TAE Technologies, the California-based fusion company backed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, said its latest and greatest plasma generator has exceeded the headline-grabbing performance of its previous machine. “This announcement… Read More
Legendary producer Quincy Jones has had a hand in creating some of the most iconic music of all time, including Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” The 84-year-old, 28-time Grammy winner and Seattle… Read More
The Upstream Music Fest and Summit, created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen last year as a way to showcase diverse musical talent, has announced some of the acts that will… Read More
Scientists working for Paul Allen are at it again, making a surprise finding deep beneath the surface of the ocean. Researchers on the Microsoft co-founder’s vessel (R/V) Petrel, examining the… Read More
That’s one more not-so-small step for Stratolaunch’s giant airplane: The space venture’s founder, software billionaire Paul Allen, is showing off a 34-second video of the twin-fuselage aircraft as it aced… Read More
Beyond playing host to the opening of “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” at his Seattle movie theater Cinerama on Thursday, Paul Allen has other connections to the beloved sci-fi film… Read More