My idea of weekend fun is browsing the racks at Seattle-area thrift stores in search of once-prized tech swag that has become castoff apparel, as a barometer of the status… Read More
In her commencement speech at Stanford University on Sunday morning, Melinda French Gates got personal and philosophical. French Gates acknowledged the big step the Standford grads were taking — which… Read More
Another startup studio with roots in Seattle is incubating ideas and spinning out fledgling tech companies. Mudita Venture Partners, a venture capital firm based in Detroit, launched its Mudita Studios… Read More
Rene Bystron spent hundreds of hours at his last startup building an app that helps teach people how to use generative AI tools. And it was through that experience that… Read More
A new startup founded by longtime e-commerce leaders is using artificial intelligence in a bid to shake up the way people find and buy clothing online. Daydream announced a massive… Read More
In a speech peppered with mentions of his own sports failings and achievements, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy offered up some advice for winning at life and work to graduates of… Read More
Galvanic Games, the independent Seattle-based developer behind video games such as Some Distant Memory, Rapture Rejects, and last fall’s Wizard With a Gun, is closing its doors. Studio head and… Read More
The founders at Autev envision a future where EV drivers simply park their vehicles in a garage, open an app and enter a parking space number. When they return, their… Read More
“There’s a great future in thermoplastics.” If anyone ever does a remake of “The Graduate,” that’s how the famous advice given to Dustin Hoffman’s character about the promise of the… Read More
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: It was a big week for cybersecurity for Seattle’s cloud giants, albeit in very different ways for each. Microsoft President Brad Smith was in… Read More
Microsoft and its PC partners Tuesday pressed ahead with the release of the first Copilot+ PCs despite delaying the AI-powered “Recall” feature to address security and privacy concerns. Rather than… Read More
The chairman of the Coast Guard investigation panel for last year’s loss of OceanGate’s Titan submersible says his team has “found no evidence” that crew members knew about their peril.… Read More
Butterflies, a Bellevue, Wash.-based social media platform that combines human and AI-generated content, launched Tuesday after raising $4.8 million in seed funding. After five months in beta, Butterflies is billed… Read More
Collaborative Robotics, the Santa Clara, Calif., company founded in 2022 by former Amazon Robotics VP and Distinguished Engineer Brad Porter, has hired Michael Vogelsong, who co-founded Amazon’s Deep Learning Technologies… Read More
Eric Berlinberg, who spent the past decade at Amazon and was a key leader on the company’s Prime Air team, is moving on from the Seattle tech giant for a… Read More
As the presidential campaign was heating up four years ago, the University of Washington and Stanford University led a nonpartisan cohort that monitored and publicized in real time their research… Read More
Amazon on Thursday announced that it has eliminated 95% of the inflated plastic pillows that it uses to cushion goods being shipped to its customers. It’s now largely using recycled… Read More
Seattle’s Aurion Biotech announced Wednesday that it received special designations from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that should speed up the development of its treatment for a common disease… Read More
This story originally appeared on Real Estate News. A settlement has been reached between Zillow Group and three multiple listing service organizations in a lawsuit involving the company’s ShowingTime product. A… Read More
Seattle fell 10 spots to No. 20 in Startup Genome’s annual “Global Startup Ecosystem Report,” a ranking of the leading startup regions in the world. But the city is still… Read More
Brex is opening an office in downtown Seattle. The Salt Lake City-based fintech giant operates as a “remote-first” company and a spokesperson said the Seattle office will be used “in… Read More
The ransomware attack on Seattle Public Library this past weekend isn’t the first to target public library systems. Libraries in Toronto and London also recently suffered major cybersecurity breaches, knocking… Read More
AI startups accounted for 40% of total venture funding in May. So it may seem strategic for startups to include AI as part of their pitches to investors. But founders… Read More
Chris Bee, a tech exec who previously worked at Lessen, Zillow, and Uber, joined AI email startup Superhuman as chief technology officer. Bee was most recently CTO at Lessen, a… Read More
Companies of all shapes and sizes need to secure their infrastructure. But it’s not always clear what type of cybersecurity software can meet their needs. And it’s difficult to navigate… Read More
