After three years of quietly toiling away on a robotic food system, Seattle startup Picnic has emerged from stealth mode with a system that assembles custom pizzas with little human intervention. | Continue reading
During a sneak preview, GeekWire’s Alan Boyle uses Microsoft’s new, hyper-realistic version of Flight Simulator to fly over his house — and does the same in a real plane as well. | Continue reading
Tech company Qualtrics, which two years ago designated Seattle as its co-headquarters, doubled down Wednesday with the announcement of a huge new lease in a striking skyscraper under construction in… | Continue reading
IBM filed a lawsuit against Zillow this week, accusing the real estate giant of piggybacking off its patented technology to build key parts of its home value estimation and search features. The… | Continue reading
The Supp.AI search engine indexes 4,650 supplements and drugs from Abbokinase to Zytiga, and serves up research findings on 56,000 interactions involving those products. | Continue reading
You might think that caffeine fuels a lot of the innovative ideas that come out of Seattle’s tech community. But what does that say about what Andy Liu is drinking if his idea is a new way to… | Continue reading
A trade group representing some of the world’s largest technology companies is urging governments to rethink their immigration policies or risk falling behind in artificial intelligence and machine… | Continue reading
“As an American company, why won’t you agree to help the US government spy on people in other countries?” An unnamed Trump adviser challenged Microsoft President Brad Smith with that question on a… | Continue reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGeWNR8CWnA&feature=youtu.be Well, the interns at Microsoft sure had fun this summer. While there may be a documentary coming to Netflix that dives deep into what… | Continue reading
It started as conversations between two friends about how to improve the insurance and financial services industries for consumers. That idea turned into a company when Michael Rowell and Michael… | Continue reading
Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture is protesting the rules of the game for awarding future national security launch contracts, while continuing to play. | Continue reading
Human doctors once again fell short of artificial intelligence in a test to accurately diagnose breast cancer, adding yet more evidence that AI-aided diagnostics may soon be commonplace. Researchers… | Continue reading
Check out five high-tech, way-out ideas from the mind of Nathan Myhrvold, Microsoft’s first chief technology officer and the CEO of Intellectual Ventures. | Continue reading
Microsoft pledged $500 million for affordable housing in January. Five months later, Google said it would invest $1 billion to help the Bay Area housing crisis. Amazon and Salesforce also announced… | Continue reading
The Seattle region may have a reputation as a liberal enclave but it’s also home to a safe haven for right-wing extremism. A virtual one anyway. Bellevue, Wash.-based web service provider Epik Inc. | Continue reading
Amazon is seeking the Federal Communications Commission’s approval for a six-month test of mobile radio devices and networking software – but not at its Seattle home base. | Continue reading
ReachNow’s 75 employees learned they were losing their jobs just hours before the company told customers that the car-sharing service was shutting down. The Seattle Department of Transportation, which… | Continue reading
A 34-year-old citizen of Pakistan is charged with paying more than $1 million in bribes to employees at AT&T’s Seattle-area offices and call centers to install malware on the company’s network to… | Continue reading
Amazon’s pioneering cloud business gave the company an early lead in an emerging and lucrative industry but competition is heating up between Amazon Web Services and newer entrants, like Microsoft and… | Continue reading
Less than three months after cutting a significant portion of its staff, Seattle startup ChefSteps was acquired Tuesday by kitchen appliance giant Breville Group. Known for its Joule sous vide cooking… | Continue reading
Peace out, ReachNow. BMW’s car-sharing service abruptly ceased operation Wednesday, ending a mobility program that included 1,000 free-floating vehicles used by more than 100,000 members across… | Continue reading
As teams grow it can be harder to build bonds between co-workers. Microsoft knows all about this, and it just released a new bot for its chat-based productivity app Teams to make it easier to break… | Continue reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9m7d07k22A Working conditions in Amazon’s fulfillment centers got a blistering critique at the hands of the HBO series “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” on Sunday. | Continue reading
Top investors, including several from Seattle, are betting big on Booster Fuels. The 4-year-old startup delivers millions of gallons per month in 20 cities, using its purple-branded trucks to fill up tanks on corporate campuses and for business vehicle fleets. | Continue reading
In the heart of the neighborhood where Amazon has made its home, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said Monday that she was interested in talking about a “different HQ2,” as she welcomed Apple and that tech… | Continue reading
After four years using Microsoft’s HoloLens internally, aerospace giant Airbus is partnering with the tech company to sell specialized holographic programs that run on the mixed-reality headsets to other companies in aerospace and defense. It’s part of a broader effort by Microso … | Continue reading
Slack is on an internal Microsoft list of prohibited technology — software, apps, online services and plug-ins that the company doesn’t want its employees using as part of their day-to-day work. But the document, obtained by GeekWire, asserts that the primary reason is security, … | Continue reading
Tech salaries just keep going up in Seattle, with the average pay jumping from $125,000 in 2015 to $138,000 today, according to a new report from Hired. The region — home to Amazon, Microsoft, Tableau, Zillow, Redfin, Zulily, Rover and sizable outposts for Google, Facebook and ot … | Continue reading
If you’re still wrapping your head around blockchain 1.0 (Bitcoin) and blockchain 2.0 (Ethereum), you’d better hurry up because blockchain 3.0 is already taking hold. And ArcBlock, a Bellevue… | Continue reading
Sources say Vulcan Inc. is looking to sell Stratolaunch, the space venture founded by Paul Allen, and one report says the asking price could be as high as $400 million. | Continue reading
Apparently it’s not a good idea to push the “Remind Me Tomorrow” button when prompted to install a software update for a tunnel’s fire-control system. WSDOT plans to close the new SR 99 tunnel in both… | Continue reading
In the battle for AI supremacy, the best defense is a good offense. That’s the philosophy behind Grover, a neural network application that is fighting disinformation by creating its own fake news. “We… | Continue reading
It’s a common problem for podcasters: you’ve got a passionate, loyal audience, but at a time when it seems everyone is producing an audio show, your weekly musings haven’t exactly rocketed up the… | Continue reading
Amazon will shutter its Amazon Restaurants food delivery service in the U.S. later this month, GeekWire has learned. Amazon Restaurants first launched in Seattle back in 2015. Amazon expanded the… | Continue reading
DocuSign stock is in free-fall despite the e-signature giant posting rapid revenue growth last quarter and reaching a customer milestone. Revenue: DocuSign reported $214 million in revenue in the… | Continue reading
Amazon’s drone ambitions took another step forward as the tech giant revealed its latest delivery drone design. | Continue reading
My son and his buddies may battle all sorts of enemies when they pile into a room to play a few hours of video games. I’ve battled the smell of those boys. Microsoft may have an odd answer to grody… | Continue reading
Bill Gates made a name for himself with software. On a recent trip to Omaha, Neb., the Microsoft co-founder tried his hand at soft-serve ice cream, joining longtime pal Warren Buffett for a shift at the local Dairy Queen. | Continue reading
Over the last few weeks and months, Oracle has laid off hundreds of employees at the Seattle office once viewed as the future of its cloud computing strategy, according to a report. Business Insider… | Continue reading
The initial phase of Portland’s project employing city mobility software called Replica from Sidewalk Labs, the startup owned by Google parent Alphabet, is underway. Portland will get access to a massive dataset that mirrors how people actually move throughout the city and its su … | Continue reading
Roberto Hoyos comes across with the laid back, semi-sleepy demeanor of a guy who makes pillows for a living. But behind the soft exterior is a geeky, entrepreneurial sprit that turned a simple gift… | Continue reading
SpaceX’s Starlink satellite launch has led to into an unusual viewing opportunity for skywatchers — and an occasion to wonder about the impact on astronomical observations. | Continue reading
Six months after a sneak preview, Amazon Web Services is raising the curtain on AWS Ground Station, its cloud-based system for controlling satellites and downloading satellite data. | Continue reading
Blue Origin and subsidiaries of United Launch Alliance and Northrop Grumman are seeking to intervene in a SpaceX lawsuit contesting a $2.3 billion rocket development award. | Continue reading
To date Microsoft has stayed out of the increasing skirmishes in the cloud-native world around service-mesh technology, but on Tuesday it plans to introduce a new specification in hopes that everyone… | Continue reading
Cray decided to sell its supercomputing business to HPE for $1.3 billion last week in part because it was worried about the long-term impact of cloud providers like Amazon Web Services and Microsoft… | Continue reading
Chances are the last time you ordered something, chatted with customer service, or looked something up online, you didn’t give much thought to who was making sure the information you were looking at… | Continue reading
On July 13, 1967, Susan Galvin was found dead in a parking garage elevator at Seattle Center. The 20-year-old administrative employee at the Seattle Police Department, who moved to Seattle from… | Continue reading