A view of Minecraft Earth on Seattle’s Burke Gilman Trail. (GeekWire Photo / Joe Bergin) Microsoft will begin releasing the highly anticipated augmented reality mobile game Minecraft Earth in October, following several months of beta testing. Like the smash hit Pokémon Go, Minecraft Earth layers its universe over the real world, and that takes a […]
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SpaceX CEO stands in front of a darkly gleaming Starship Mk1 prototype as he outlines his plan for testing and launching the spaceship. (SpaceX via YouTube) SpaceX CEO Elon Musk set a revved-up timeline tonight for testing and building a fleet of Starship rocket ships that he says would eventually take people on trips to
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Bulletproof founder Dave Asprey. (Twitter Photo) Dave Asprey, founder of Bulletproof 360, is stepping down from his role as CEO. Asprey announced that he’d be handing the reins of the company, known for its butter-filled Bulletproof Coffee, to Larry Bodner starting Oct. 1. Asprey will stay on with Bulletproof as executive chairman. “Over the past
(98point6 Photo) Sam’s Club members in three states will soon be able to see a physician right from their phones at any hour of the day for just $1 per session. The perk is thanks to a pilot in Michigan, Pennsylvania and North Carolina that Walmart-owned Sam’s Club is rolling out with Seattle-based telemedicine startup
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Voom works with third-party helicopter operators and helipads to deliver on-demand service. (Voom Photo) Voom has officially extended its app-based, on-demand helicopter service to the San Francisco Bay Area, confirming that the Airbus subsidiary is now active in the United States as well as in Brazil and Mexico. Today’s announcement comes months after initial reports
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos talks with reporters at a reception following the company’s Alexa devices and services unveiling at the Amazon Spheres on Wednesday evening in Seattle, with Amazon executives Jay Carney and Dave Limp to his right. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Jeff Bezos made a surprise appearance at an Amazon press reception Wednesday
A team member at D-Wave Systems, based in Burnaby, B.C.,, works on the dilution refrigerator system that cools the processors in the company’s quantum computer. (D-Wave Systems Photo / Larry Goldstein) D-Wave Systems says its next-generation, 5,000-qubit quantum computing system will be called Advantage, to recognize the business advantage it hopes its customers will derive
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The Orion crew capsule meant for NASA’s uncrewed Artemis 1 mission around the moon and back is being prepared for its flight. (NASA Photo / Radislav Sinyak) NASA says it’s ordering three more Orion spacecraft for missions to the moon, at a cost of $2.7 billion — and plans to order as many as nine
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge, star of the Amazon comedy series “Fleabag.” (Amazon Photo) It was another historic night for comedy and Amazon Prime Video at the 71st Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday as the streaming network took home best comedy series for the second year in a row, this time for the critical hit “Fleabag.” Along with
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