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International Space Station

White House gets pushback on plan to phase out space station funding by 2025

White House budget plans are zeroing in on zeroing out federal funding for the International Space Station by 2025, to… Read More

Amazon lobbying spending jumped 16% in 2017 as tech titans ramped up efforts to influence federal policy

Amazon spent nearly $13 million on lobbying the U.S. government last year, a 16 percent increase over the company’s lobbying… Read More

Amazon

Amazon sets meeting with Seattle officials in effort to improve relationship with its hometown

Amazon is inviting Seattle government leaders to a private meeting to discuss the challenges and opportunities ahead,” according to a… Read More

Uber CEO, Seattle investor and labor leader call for portable benefits in Washington state

Uber has long maintained that its drivers are independent contractors, not employees, and therefore not eligible for the benefits employees… Read More

AFN management

Football trumps the shutdown: Pentagon TV network cleared to air NFL playoffs

News Brief: When it comes to the U.S. military, football trumps the government shutdown, even without Boeing’s help. The American Forces… Read More

IRA-linked tweet

Twitter says it’s blocked 50,000 bots linked to Russia – and is alerting 677,775 fans

Twitter says it has followed through on its commitment to Congress by identifying and suspending more than 50,000 automated accounts… Read More

Amazon HQ

May HQ2 be ever in your favor: Amazon’s new short list pits 20 cities against each other in a risky game

Amazon’s astounding decision to establish a second and equal corporate headquarters outside of Seattle simultaneously made the company an object… Read More

In new book, Microsoft cautions humanity to develop AI ethics guidelines now

It’s 2038 and — like most businesses these days — a tech company is using artificial intelligence to scan job… Read More

Seattle and Portland are more interested in Trump impeachment than any other U.S. cities, search data shows

Residents of Seattle and Portland Googled “impeachment” more than people living in any other U.S. city at the end of… Read More

Bob Ferguson

Washington among 22 states suing over FCC’s net neutrality repeal

News Brief: A coalition of 22 states and the District of Columbia have filed a petition to appeal the Federal… Read More

Trump bump? Author of a very different ‘Fire and Fury’ sees uptick in Amazon sales

Fallout from Michael Wolff’s incendiary Donald Trump tell-all is still unfolding on the American political stage. The drama’s main character,… Read More

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg makes fixing Facebook’s most controversial problems his ‘personal challenge’ for 2018

Facebook’s image suffered some serious blows in 2017. So rather than wear a tie everyday or learn a complex foreign… Read More

Facebook and Google push deadline to comply with Seattle’s political ad disclosure law

Facebook and Google have asked for more time to respond to the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission mandate that the… Read More

Employers in Washington state could get up to $20K in tax credits for employees who telecommute

Washington state businesses will be eligible for new tax credits when they let employees work remotely if the legislature passes a new bill filed… Read More

Full Text: Here’s what Washington state’s legally contentious net neutrality bill looks like up close

A bill to preserve net neutrality in Washington state offers the first detailed glimpse of the state’s broader plan to… Read More

Donald Trump

Trump and tech: Collisions, cooperation, and consequences in the first full year of his presidency

As Donald Trump’s first full year as president comes into focus, one recurring theme of 2017 is Big Tech’s new… Read More

Ryan and Muilenburg

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg unveils $300M in initiatives in response to tax bill

The Boeing Co. is moving ahead on $300 million in charitable contributions and workplace investments as a response to the… Read More

Tech industry cheers GOP tax overhaul

Are Republicans delivering a big Christmas present to the tech community in the form of a sweeping tax overhaul? You… Read More

Tech helped Cyrus Habib get to Washington’s second-highest office — and new innovations hold even more promise for the blind

Cyrus Habib presides over Washington state’s Senate in his capacity as lieutenant governor — a task that would have been… Read More

Sen. Cantwell and other policymakers want to create a federal committee to grapple with the coming AI revolution

Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell and several of her colleagues have introduced a bill that would set up a special advisory… Read More

Donald Trump and Harrison Schmitt

Moon, Mars and jobs: Trump puts his spin on space policy, with details to come

President Donald Trump today signed a space policy directive that calls on NASA to establish an outpost on the moon… Read More

With DACA clock ticking, tech community rallies behind Dreamers

Remitly marketing manager Lazaro Carrion became a U.S. citizen last year. It took 20 years and two emigrations to achieve… Read More

Genessa Krasnow

Geek of the Week: Ex-Microsoft futurist Genessa Krasnow is a cultural designer and activist with a new game

Genessa Krasnow spent several years at Microsoft as a creative strategist, building prototypes to illustrate the future of technology. Focused… 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

Seattle startup Downticket helps voters follow elections and support candidates with an app

A new Seattle startup wants to make civic engagement more mobile-friendly. Downticket is an app that provides guides to select… Read More

Seattle mayor’s advice for the city that lands Amazon HQ2

Seattle Mayor Tim Burgess believes being home to Amazon HQ1 has been “a huge benefit to the community” but has… 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

Deadline 2020: Regulators need to catch up to social media propaganda by the next big election

Social media’s greatest strength and weakness is the egalitarianism that defines it. Facebook and Twitter have given a voice to… Read More

Podcast

Week In Geek Podcast: Bots meddle in a pivotal election and Twitter finally goes to 280 characters

At this point, it’s clear that foreign actors tried to impact the 2016 presidential election through social media, often using… Read More

Steve Bannon calls ‘Amazon Washington Post’ a partisan mouthpiece amid Roy Moore allegations

Steve Bannon accused the Washington Post — and its owner, Jeff Bezos — of intentionally targeting conservative politicians, hours after the… Read More

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