Articles about Donald Trump

Microsoft to invest $3.3B in Wisconsin AI data center as Biden hits at Trump over jobs creation

by Kurt Schlosser on May 8, 2024May 8, 2024 at 11:07 am

Microsoft plans to invest $3.3 billion in an artificial intelligence-related initiative in Wisconsin, giving a boost to President Joe Biden’s job-creation efforts in the key election battleground state. The investment,… Read More

Former Washington Post chief Marty Baron on what it was like working for Jeff Bezos

by Taylor Soper on October 10, 2023October 10, 2023 at 11:55 am

Inside the Seattle-area home of their new boss, a group of Washington Post leaders nervously waited as Jeff Bezos silently reviewed a memo detailing a struggling newspaper business. The Amazon… Read More

Biden Administration taps Washington state’s Kim Wyman to lead national election security effort

by Mike Lewis on October 26, 2021October 26, 2021 at 10:39 am

The Biden administration has tapped Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman to lead a national effort to curb foreign and domestic election interference. Wyman, Washington’s sole GOP statewide officeholder, will… Read More

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‘This has not happened before’: Tech historian on Trump, social media, and an unprecedented moment in American history

by Todd Bishop on January 9, 2021January 9, 2021 at 8:28 am

Twitter’s decision Friday to join Facebook in permanently suspending President Trump’s account underscored the fundamental role of social media in one of the most tumultuous periods in American history. If… Read More

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Amazon tears into Trump after Pentagon reaffirms Microsoft as winner of $10B JEDI cloud contract

by Todd Bishop on September 4, 2020September 4, 2020 at 9:27 pm

[Updated at 3 p.m. Pacific on Friday, Sept. 4.] Amazon issued a searing response Friday to the Department of Defense’s reaffirmation of Microsoft as the winner of the coveted $10… Read More

Microsoft confirms TikTok talks after Trump and Nadella speak, sets Sept. 15 deadline for deal

by Todd Bishop on August 2, 2020August 3, 2020 at 8:53 am

Microsoft broke its silence on its interest in acquiring hit social video app TikTok in the United States in a statement Sunday afternoon, confirming the talks and saying it’s prepared… Read More

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After sparking consternation at NASA, Trump campaign pulls ad featuring SpaceX launch

by Alan Boyle on June 4, 2020June 4, 2020 at 6:13 pm

An online advertisement that plays off last weekend’s historic crewed SpaceX launch to boost President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign drew a protest from the wife of one of the astronauts… Read More

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After seeing milestone launch, President Trump hails space effort as a force for ‘pride and unity’

by Alan Boyle on May 30, 2020May 31, 2020 at 7:29 am

President Donald Trump held up America’s space effort as a unifying endeavor for a divided nation after becoming only the third sitting president to witness the launch of American astronauts… Read More

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Trump says he’s taking hydroxychloroquine, a drug being tested in two studies at Univ. of Washington

by Alan Boyle on May 18, 2020May 18, 2020 at 6:44 pm

President Donald Trump said today that he’s taking hydroxychloroquine, an antimalarial drug that’s being tested as a COVID-19 treatment at the University of Washington and dozens of other sites across… Read More

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Jeff Bezos and Satya Nadella join White House’s coronavirus industry groups

by Alan Boyle on April 15, 2020April 15, 2020 at 5:19 pm

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and President Donald Trump aren’t exactly the best of friends, but that didn’t stop the White House from including the world’s richest individual on a list… Read More

President Donald Trump tests negative for coronavirus after a week of controversy

by Alan Boyle on March 14, 2020March 14, 2020 at 4:57 pm

President Donald Trump famously downplayed the seriousness of the coronavirus outbreak at first, but now he’s been tested to see if he’s carrying the virus – and the results show… Read More

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Trump says he’s considering restrictions on domestic travel from coronavirus hotspots

by Alan Boyle on March 14, 2020March 14, 2020 at 1:21 pm

In response to the coronavirus outbreak, restrictions on European travel will be extended to Britain and Ireland on Monday – and President Donald Trump said today that limits on travel… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: We (almost) hacked the election; Amazon vs. Trump; cashless stadiums

by Curt Milton on February 15, 2020February 15, 2020 at 6:50 am

Here’s what we’re talking about this week on the GeekWire Podcast: Voting online is fast, convenient and also … vulnerable. In the wake of the Iowa caucuses app fiasco, we… Read More

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Star Trek’s George Takei tweaks President Trump over Space Force’s trekky new seal

by Alan Boyle on January 24, 2020January 25, 2020 at 7:34 am

We don’t know whether Mr. Spock would have cocked an eyebrow over the Starfleet-like U.S. Space Force seal that was revealed by President Donald Trump today, but we’ve found out… Read More

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‘He does good at rockets’: President Trump pays tangled tribute to Elon Musk’s tech triumphs

by Alan Boyle on January 22, 2020January 22, 2020 at 11:02 am

President Donald Trump is said to be closely watching the impeachment proceedings on Capitol Hill, but he’s also watching what billionaire techie Elon Musk is doing at SpaceX and Tesla… Read More

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President Trump signs the Space Force into existence under the Air Force’s wing

by Alan Boyle on December 20, 2019December 20, 2019 at 7:00 pm

Amid military fanfare, President Donald Trump signed a defense authorization bill into law to create the U.S. Space Force as a sixth branch of the armed forces. “This is a… Read More

Microsoft President Brad Smith pushes back on Trump administration’s Huawei ban

by Nat Levy on September 9, 2019September 9, 2019 at 6:45 am

Microsoft President Brad Smith wants to see more evidence behind the Trump administration’s reasoning for cutting off Chinese tech giant Huawei from U.S. technology. Smith told Bloomberg Businessweek that the… Read More

How the growing U.S.-China trade war is forcing tech and product companies to get creative

by James Thorne on August 31, 2019August 31, 2019 at 7:58 am

Months ago, long before President Donald Trump “hereby ordered” U.S. companies to find places other than China to make their goods, Seattle-based shoe and apparel company Brooks Running was already… Read More

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Trump ushers in U.S. Space Command, with Space Force (or Corps) in the works

by Alan Boyle on August 29, 2019August 29, 2019 at 5:32 pm

President Donald Trump today hailed the revival of the U.S. Space Command to protect America’s technological assets on the final frontier, and put in another pitch for the establishment of… Read More

Huawei cuts jobs at Seattle-area research division as part of larger layoff

by James Thorne on July 24, 2019July 24, 2019 at 9:10 am

Chinese tech giant Huawei is shedding 41 jobs at its Bellevue, Wash.-based engineering office, according to a notice filed with the state of Washington. Huawei said yesterday that it would… Read More

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White House rewrites AI research strategy to prioritize public-private partnerships

by Alan Boyle on June 20, 2019June 20, 2019 at 5:17 pm

The Trump administration is updating the Obama administration’s strategy for artificial intelligence to put more emphasis on public-private partnerships like the one forged this year by Amazon and the National… Read More

With a single tweet, President Trump stirs tumult over NASA’s plans to go to the moon

by Alan Boyle on June 7, 2019June 8, 2019 at 10:25 am

President Donald Trump put the space community on edge today with a tweet that downplayed NASA’s plans to send astronauts to the moon by 2024 as the first step toward… Read More

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Donald Trump, whose airline fizzled out, gives 737 MAX marketing advice to Boeing

by Alan Boyle on April 15, 2019February 18, 2022 at 7:45 pm

https://twitter.com/search?q=%22737%20maga%22&src=typed_query In addition to praising Tiger Woods and pillorying Democrats, President Donald Trump had some words of advice on Twitter for Boeing, which is dealing with federal investigations in the… Read More

MIT computer scientists troll Donald Trump over tweet about planes becoming ‘too complex to fly’

by Alan Boyle on March 12, 2019March 12, 2019 at 11:02 am

In the wake of Sunday’s fatal Boeing 737 MAX airplane crash in Ethiopia, President Donald Trump took computer scientists to task today for making airplanes “too complex to fly.” And… Read More

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President Trump signs directive to create new Space Force under the Air Force’s wing

by Alan Boyle on February 19, 2019February 19, 2019 at 6:12 pm

WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump today signed a space policy directive that lays out further steps in the creation of the U.S. Space Force as a sixth military branch housed… Read More

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White House initiative will boost artificial intelligence research and data-sharing

by Alan Boyle on February 11, 2019March 12, 2019 at 11:04 pm

The White House is moving forward with the American AI Initiative, a set of policies aimed at focusing the full resources of the federal government on the frontiers of artificial… Read More

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Brooks Running CEO Jim Weber considers leaving China over ‘unsettling’ tariff situation

by James Thorne on January 28, 2019January 28, 2019 at 3:29 pm

Brooks Running CEO Jim Weber is reconsidering the company’s presence in China amid an ongoing tariff dispute between the U.S. and China. In an interview with Fox Business News, Weber… Read More

Former Boeing executive Patrick Shanahan will take over Pentagon after his boss quits

by Alan Boyle on December 23, 2018December 24, 2018 at 10:48 am

President Donald Trump says Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, a former Boeing executive, will take charge of the Pentagon on Jan. 1 in the wake of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’… Read More

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Trump authorizes revival of U.S. Space Command, with Space Force on agenda

by Alan Boyle on December 18, 2018December 18, 2018 at 11:02 am

President Donald Trump today authorized the Pentagon to set up the U.S. Space Command as its own combatant command, in preparation for creating a Space Force as a separate branch… Read More

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TLDR: IRL Glasses block out TV & computer screens

by Starla Sampaco on October 10, 2018October 10, 2018 at 5:55 pm

Today’s featured stories Want to live ‘in real life’ and block out screens? These glasses on Kickstarter may do the trick Washington Gov. Inslee says state is ready for Trump… Read More