Councilmember Kshama Sawant holds a press conference at City Hall in 2017 during a debate over a new tax on big business. (GeekWire Photo / Monica Nickelsburg) Amazon’s $1 million political contribution announced Tuesday — on top of $450,000 the company previously spent on elections in its hometown — struck a nerve with Seattle progressives worried about […]
It’s tough to make a traditional recommendation for Zachtronics’s Eliza. It’s a thoughtful, short visual novel – an interactive, illustrated story – that makes a point of realistically depicting someone who’s wrestling with depression and burnout. “It’s not an easy sell. ‘Hey, play this game with a lot of intellectual baggage to it, where people
(GeekWire Photo / Nat Levy) Microsoft on Monday kicked off public trials of its Project xCloud game streaming service that lets users play high-powered Xbox games such as Halo on their smartphones. The company last month began accepting sign-ups for the preview, which gives gamers in the U.S., U.K., and South Korea initial access to
Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 6, 2019. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on GeekWire Nike has
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Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates met with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein multiple times starting in 2011, The New York Times reported, revealing a closer connection between the two billionaires than previously known. Gates told The Wall Street Journal last month that he “didn’t have
Teams from NASA, Boeing and White Sands Missile Range rehearse procedures for landing and crew extraction from Boeing’s Starliner in September at the New Mexico missile range. (NASA Photo / Bill Ingalls) NASA confirmed today that Boeing is scheduled to conduct the next high-profile test of its CST-100 Starliner space capsule in a little more
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Doug Baldwin at GeekWire Summit 2019. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) — Former NFL receiver Doug Baldwin is now a senior advisor of product concepts at Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue, Wash.-based invention and investment lab. “As a kid, I grew up playing with legos… I would create whatever I wanted to create. And Intellectual Ventures
Groota co-founders Rushin Liu, left, and Cho-Min Chou. (Groota Photo) Rushin Liu likes panning for digital gold, sifting through and reading promotional emails and newsletters for nuggets of useful information. But even when the messages were automatically sequestered into a folder for commercial correspondence, the good emails were getting drowned out by the unsolicited junk.
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Doug Baldwin, ex-Seattle Seahawks wide receiver. (GeekWire Photo / Dan DeLong) Seattle Seahawks great Doug Baldwin has left behind the instant gratification and self worth that he associated with being a professional football player. Coming to terms with life and personal value away from his longtime career has been a struggle at times, and one
GeekWire Summit speakers, clockwise from top left: USAFacts founder Steve Ballmer, SPD Chief Carmen Best, Microsoft President Brad Smith, and Federal Trade Commissioner Rohit Chopra. (GeekWire Photos / Dan DeLong) Steve Ballmer came out of his chair over his enthusiasm for new Microsoft devices. Brad Smith took a more measured, but equally determined approach, in
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