The Seattle real estate tech companies that have spent the past several years reporting on how attractive and hot tech hubs like Seattle, Silicon Valley and elsewhere are have shifted gears during the… | Continue reading
Next time you’re grumbling about figuring out the settings to join a video call, consider what Steven Sinofsky has been doing to research his upcoming book. A board partner at Silicon Valley venture… | Continue reading
One of Redfin’s co-founders is suing the high-tech real estate brokerage for patent infringement and intellectual property theft, alleging that the violations handicapped his current startup. | Continue reading
Microsoft is offering companies a new antidote to one of the most troublesome viral reactions in the workplace. The new “Reply All Storm Protection” for Exchange Online on Office 365 will block… | Continue reading
Amazon will give employees the option to do their jobs from home until at least early October — extending its remote work guidance by several months. The move by the Seattle tech giant provides a… | Continue reading
Amazon has been quietly piloting an “enhanced vetting” process for prospective third-party sellers on Amazon.com, supplementing the normal online submission process with video calls to verify the… | Continue reading
Zillow Group is embracing WFH. The Seattle-based real estate company told its employees Friday that they can work from home until at least the end of 2020. The policy reflects rapidly-shifting office… | Continue reading
Microsoft and University of Washington researchers have teamed up on a new app that promises to alert people automatically if they’ve been in close proximity to someone infected by COVID-19, seeking… | Continue reading
UW’s Virology Lab is reporting encouraging results from trial runs of a new test from Abbott Laboratories that detects the antibodies created by people who have had COVID-19. | Continue reading
Bill Gates may be one of the world’s richest individuals, but even he sometimes finds it hard to cope with the huge social changes brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. | Continue reading
Who would have thought a video game could identify treatments for COVID-19? Researchers at the University of Washington thought so, and so far the game has produced 99 chances to win. | Continue reading
The scientists running Seattle-based Oceans Initiative more typically apply their marine mammal expertise to research on endangered orcas or conservation of white-sided dolphins in Washington’s Puget… | Continue reading
Bill Gates cautioned Thursday night that “there is no middle ground” in the fight against the novel coronavirus, calling for a coordinated effort to effectively shut down normal life across the United… | Continue reading
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said Tuesday morning that the U.S. acted too slowly and missed its chance to avoid mandatory stay-at-home orders to deal with the COVID-19 crisis, saying that… | Continue reading
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says he has turned all of his attention to the impact of COVID-19, the tech giant’s response to the spread of the disease, and its role in finding solutions. “My own time and… | Continue reading
Microsoft Teams is seeing massive user growth as remote work becomes the norm amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The chat, collaboration and video conferencing app saw its daily active user count rise more… | Continue reading
The work-from-home guidance from Seattle’s largest employers in response to the coronavirus outbreak is already affecting the city’s normally treacherous morning traffic. Amazon, Microsoft, and a… | Continue reading
A Facebook contractor based in Seattle tested positive for coronavirus, the company confirmed Wednesday. The person was last in the Stadium East office on Feb. 21. Facebook closed its Stadium West and… | Continue reading
Boeing has taken the wraps off its closely held design for the Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft, a new type of helicopter that’s being proposed to the U.S. Army. | Continue reading
An Amazon employee at the company’s Seattle headquarters has tested positive for the novel coronavirus spreading across the country, according to an internal email obtained by GeekWire. The employee… | Continue reading
The University of Washington is taking a novel approach to combat the spread of coronavirus around the world. A new puzzle game from the university challenges scientists and the public alike to build… | Continue reading
The program manager for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi acknowledges that more rigorous testing might have turned up the software glitch that spoiled an uncrewed test flight last December. | Continue reading
A 100-foot-tall prototype for SpaceX’s Starship super-rocket was destroyed tonight during a cryogenic pressure test on its pad at the company’s South Texas facility. | Continue reading
Billionaire software executive Charles Simonyi spent millions of dollars on trips to the International Space Station, but something different gets him up in the morning nowadays. | Continue reading
One year after the kickoff of the American AI Initiative, White House chief technology officer Michael Kratsios says its effects are sure to be felt in the Seattle area. | Continue reading
Amazon Go is going full grocery. Two years after launching a chain of convenience stores without cashiers or checkout lines, Amazon is opening its first “Amazon Go Grocery” store in Seattle on Tuesday… | Continue reading
Amazon Go is going full grocery. Two years after launching a chain of convenience stores without cashiers or checkout lines, Amazon is opening its first “Amazon Go Grocery” store in Seattle on Tuesday… | Continue reading
Expedia Group is laying off 12 percent of its workforce, about 3,000 employees, in an effort to “streamline and focus” the Seattle-based online travel giant under chairman Barry Diller following the… | Continue reading
Charles Simonyi is a legendary space tourist, entrepreneur, programmer and philanthropist. Among his many feats: • Joined Microsoft in 1980 and was the original programmer of Word and Excel, having… | Continue reading
Inside radio station KEXP (90.3 FM) in Seattle, just down the hall from the DJ booth, the dark room in the corner of the building looks at first glance like it might be used for storage, or maybe a… | Continue reading
After a one-day postponement due to bedeviling winds, Boeing’s next-generation 777X wide-body jet completed its first test flight today. | Continue reading
LAS VEGAS — Mmmmm, blockchain. IBM hosted a dinner this week at CES with celebrity chef Aaron Sanchez, who put together a fantastic three-course meal featuring scallop aguachile, swiss chard-wrapped… | Continue reading
APiJET says it has landed the first commercial license for a NASA flight-optimization technology known as Traffic Aware Strategic Aircrew Requests, or TASAR. | Continue reading
The cheers seemed louder than the motor when Harbour Air’s all-electric seaplane made its first flight over the Fraser River, marking a milestone for zero-emission propulsion. | Continue reading
A new startup program, born in Seattle, aims to help tech workers leave big companies and launch their own ventures, aiming to generate a surge of new entrepreneurs in the local ecosystem. Venture Out… | Continue reading
Personal information of T-Mobile’s wireless customers, including names, addresses, phone numbers and more, was exposed in a recent breach. T-Mobile told TechCrunch that the breach impacted less than… | Continue reading
MagniX, which aims to become the Tesla of aviation, is gearing up for the first flight tests of an all-electric Harbour Air seaplane next month, the company’s CEO says. | Continue reading
In what could be an exceptionally personal form of identity theft, University of Washington researchers have determined that a popular genealogy website is vulnerable to security risks which could… | Continue reading
— Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is stepping down from Facebook’s board at the end of October. “I remain positive about Facebook and the mission to give… | Continue reading
Amazon’s headcount around the globe now exceeds three quarters of a million people, a major hiring milestone for the second biggest employer in the U.S. Amazon finished the third quarter with a… | Continue reading
The 2012 publication of the New York Times multimedia story “Snow Fall,” about a deadly avalanche earlier that year in Steven Pass, Wash., was a watershed moment for Steve Clayton and Steve Wiens, two… | Continue reading
A year after taking over the assets of an asteroid mining company known as Planetary Resources, ConsenSys Space unveils its first project: the TruSat satellite-tracking app. | Continue reading
Are animals conscious? Are conscious computers possible? In a newly published book, “The Feeling of Life Itself,” neuroscientist Christof Koch provides his answers. | Continue reading
[Editor’s note: This guest post was co-written by Oren Etzioni and Jacob Colker of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) in Seattle.] We’ve reached a tipping point for our startup… | Continue reading
[Editor’s Note: Tren Griffin, a longtime member of the Seattle region’s technology community, responded earlier this week to New York-based venture capitalist Fred Wilson’s statement that Seattle is a… | Continue reading
A shareholder resolution up for vote at Microsoft’s Dec. 4 annual meeting asks the company to consider putting a rank-and-file employee on its board of directors — citing “strained” relations with… | Continue reading
Art and architecture already speaks to us on a multitude of levels. A new installation on Microsoft’s campus in Redmond, Wash., communicates in a new way, using artificial intelligence to “read the… | Continue reading
The bustle of construction and prep work continues outside at the massive Seattle waterfront campus where Expedia will start moving the first waves of its 4,500 employees next week. Inside, you can… | Continue reading