Alan Boyle 2022-07-06 17:33:00 www.geekwire.com An artist’s conception shows a future Virgin Galactic mothership in flight. (Virgin Galactic Illustration) Virgin Galactic says it will partner with Aurora Flight Sciences, a Virginia-based Boeing subsidiary, to design and build next-generation motherships…
Thomas Wilde 2022-07-06 15:59:58 www.geekwire.com Torchlight, by the late Runic Games, is now officially one of the last 360 releases on Microsoft’s Games with Gold program. (Runic Games image) Xbox’s subscription services will no longer include free monthly Xbox…
Todd Bishop 2022-07-06 13:43:09 www.geekwire.com A diagram released by IBM in 2019, illustrating the biometric markers available to researchers in its Diversity in Faces dataset, containing images uploaded by Flickr users under Creative Commons licenses. Facing a pair of…
Kurt Schlosser 2022-07-06 11:27:17 www.geekwire.com Jody Allen, right, sister of Paul Allen and chair of the Seattle Seahawks, helps raise the 12th Man flag and pumps up the crowd at a game against the Los Angeles Rams in Seattle.…
Taylor Soper 2022-07-05 12:08:20 www.geekwire.com Brett Goodwin. Startups that didn’t raise cash from venture capitalists in recent years might be in a better position to control their future with a potential recession looming. That’s the take from Brett Goodwin,…
Todd Bishop 2022-07-02 12:00:56 www.geekwire.com Testing SpaceX Starlink at Black Butte Lake in Northern California. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) A decision this week by the Federal Communications Commission cleared Elon Musk’s SpaceX to provide its Starlink satellite internet…
Kurt Schlosser 2022-06-30 12:18:31 www.geekwire.com A “Parallel Reality” board at Detroit Metropolitan Airport board shows personalized flight information to a traveler using facial recognition technology. (Delta Photo) A startup with Microsoft and Redmond, Wash., roots is reaching new heights…
Kurt Schlosser 2022-06-29 14:24:32 www.geekwire.com (Photo via Microsoft Research Blog) Microsoft is launching a new research initiative aimed at fighting climate change, the company announced Wednesday. The Microsoft Climate Research Initiative (MCRI) aims to harness the tech giant’s research…
Taylor Soper 2022-06-29 12:37:30 www.geekwire.com Eric Larsen, fund administrator for AofA’s Innovation Fund. (AoA Photo) Alliance of Angels raised $1.3 million for a new “Innovation Fund” that will back 10-to-12 early-stage startups over the next year, mostly in the…
Kurt Schlosser 2022-06-29 09:00:00 www.geekwire.com An image from the “Adventure Photography Pro” workshop run by photographer Alex Strohl on Wildist. (Wildist Photo) CreativeLive, the Seattle-based company which teaches online classes in photography, video, design, music and more, is acquiring…
Kurt Schlosser 2022-06-29 03:01:00 www.geekwire.com An Amazon Fresh grocery store. (Amazon Photo) Amazon has spent years building technology to reshape how shoppers use its physical retail stores. Now the company is introducing a new analytics service to help brands…
Kurt Schlosser 2022-06-28 08:00:00 www.geekwire.com Atomo is selling Ultra Smooth and Classic Black cold brews and will offer an Oat Milk Latter later this summer. (Atomo Photo) Atomo, the Seattle coffee company making its sustainable brews without beans, has…
Charlotte Schubert 2022-06-27 13:45:18 www.geekwire.com Expedia global chief security officer Kurt John. (Expedia Photo) — Kurt John, former chief cybersecurity officer for Siemens USA, joined Expedia as global chief security officer. John will be responsible for IT security, physical…
Charlotte Schubert 2022-06-27 11:48:41 www.geekwire.com STARS executive director Sonya Cunningham (left) and faculty director Eve Riskin. (UW Photo) A University of Washington program to support STEM students from low-income and underserved backgrounds is now nine years old. And it…
Nate Bek 2022-06-27 10:00:00 www.geekwire.com (Possible Image) Rising interest rates caused by recent inflation may hurt traditional lenders, but some tech-fueled financial companies are seeing tailwinds. Tony Huang, CEO of Seattle consumer credit startup Possible Finance, said his company’s…
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Todd Bishop 2022-06-25 13:18:32 www.geekwire.com Tye Brady, Amazon Robotics chief technologist, with Digit, a bipedal warehouse robot developed by Agility Robotics, a company in which Amazon has invested; and a new Amazon warehouse robot, Proteus, lower right, that can…
Sonali Vaid 2022-06-25 10:53:00 www.geekwire.com Aquagga CEO Nigel Sharp presenting at GeekWire’s Elevator Pitch competition that airs later this summer. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Earlier this month, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency set new water health advisories for…
Charlotte Schubert 2022-06-24 17:54:52 www.geekwire.com Shawn Bice, Microsoft corporate vice president of cloud security. (Microsoft Photo) — Shawn Bice returned to Microsoft to serve as corporate vice president of cloud security. Bice left a general manager position at Microsoft…
Kurt Schlosser 2022-06-24 10:50:00 www.geekwire.com A Lucid Air Grand Touring electric vehicle inside the company’s new studio space at University Village in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) If $6-a-gallon gas has got you down, maybe you’re considering joining…
Nate Bek 2022-06-24 10:59:29 www.geekwire.com Venture capital firm Graham & Walker hosted a startup event at the Amazon Spheres in Seattle on Thursday. Panel from left: Bloomberg tech editor Anne VanderMey; Tina Huang-To, founding partner at Kin Ventures; Julie…
Taylor Soper 2022-06-23 12:24:45 www.geekwire.com (Bigstock Photo) SAP has laid off employees based in the Pacific Northwest as part of what the tech giant describes as a “restructuring program” related to its product engineering organization that includes more than…
Todd Bishop 2022-06-23 14:12:20 www.geekwire.com An AWS Snowcone SSD on the International Space Station during the Axiom Space Ax-1 mission. (NASA Photo via Amazon) LAS VEGAS — Axiom Space tested an Amazon Web Services Snowcone cloud device in orbit in April…
Charlotte Schubert 2022-06-23 16:37:53 www.geekwire.com Rendering of planned apartment complex Grand Street Commons. (Amazon Photo) Amazon is investing $23 million to support the construction of 568 homes in Seattle as part of its Housing Equity Fund to build or…
Taylor Soper 2022-06-23 14:37:50 www.geekwire.com Esper co-founders Yadhu Gopalan (left) and Shiv Sundar. (Esper Photo) Esper, a Seattle-based startup that operates a DevOps platform for customers that manage fleets of company-owned Android devices, has laid off 12% of its…
Todd Bishop 2022-06-23 13:07:58 www.geekwire.com Swami Sivasubramanian, AWS VP, announces the new CodeWhisperer service at re:MARS in Las Vegas. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) LAS VEGAS — Amazon Web Services showed a new service that uses machine learning to…
Alan Boyle 2022-06-23 09:00:00 www.geekwire.com An artist’s rendition shows the NOAA-18 satellite in orbit. (NOAA Illustration) What do you do with an aging weather satellite? If you’re the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, you turn to Microsoft Azure and…
Alan Boyle 2022-06-22 16:52:31 www.geekwire.com Artwork shows the Gaia spacecraft against the background of the Milky Way. (ESA Illustration / D. Ducros) Could far-off aliens be sending out signals telling us they exist? If so, how would we know…
Todd Bishop 2022-06-22 10:57:56 www.geekwire.com Jesse Levinson, Zoox CTO and co-founder, speaks at Amazon re:MARS in Las Vegas this week. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) LAS VEGAS — Zoox, the robotaxi company acquired by Amazon for more than $1…
Charlotte Schubert 2022-06-21 11:01:53 www.geekwire.com Advata CEO Julie Rezek. (Advata Photo) Over the last several months, Julie Rezek has pulled together six healthcare companies under one roof. The combined company, Bellevue-Wash.-based Advata, launched earlier this month with Rezek as…
Taylor Soper 2022-06-21 11:34:02 www.geekwire.com The mpathic team. (mpathic Photos) The news: mpathic, a Seattle-area startup aiming to bring more empathy to the corporate communication landscape, landed a $4 million seed round. The details: Founded in 2020 by a…
Nate Bek 2022-06-21 12:10:15 www.geekwire.com From left: CEO Perry Bedi and CTO Sami Kaipa. (Tingono Photo) The news: Tingono, a startup that uses artificial intelligence to reduce customer churn for tech companies, emerged from stealth mode and announced a…
Nate Bek 2022-06-20 15:28:49 www.geekwire.com The Havium team from left: Co-founder and CEO Jamie Nacht, co-founder Cristin Nacht, and technical co-founder Arash Motamedi. Charlie, a flat-coated retriever, is sitting in the front. (Havium Photo) A husband-and-wife duo and tech…