Category: Technology

(Amazon Image via Twitter) Amazon captured another three Golden Globe awards Sunday night as the annual celebration of film and television took on the look of a long-running Zoom meeting from the homes of some of Hollywood’s biggest stars. Amazon Studios won two awards for “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm,” including best picture musical or comedy — […]

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 Feb. 21, 2021. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on GeekWire NASA releases […]

What happens when Amazon becomes an integral part of the economy and culture of a community? And what does the outcome say about the tech giant’s larger impact on the world? This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we explore the double-edged sword of the company’s rapidly expanding fulfillment and distribution network, through the lens of […]

Chuks Onwuneme. Editor’s note: This is a guest post written by Seattle entrepreneur Chuks Onwuneme, which first appeared on LinkedIn. The version below includes additional material. I co-founded optimize.health with Jeff LeBrun, initially as Pillsy in 2015, and later pivoted to focus on Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM). Optimize.heath is now a market leader in the […]

(Amazon Photo) Amazon has added a new browser setting to Amazon Kids that lets parents give their children wider access to the internet. Amazon Kids — previously known as Amazon FreeTime — is a free suite of parental controls that lets parents set age filters, educational goals, and screen time limits by content type on […]

GeekWire’s Todd Bishop tested the new T-Detect COVID test prior to its official launch last week to learn whether he had COVID-19 last year. On a cold, clear weekday morning last month, my quest to figure out whether I had COVID-19 in the early days of the pandemic took me to my back porch, where […]

“Bliss,” the Microsoft Windows XP desktop wallpaper image, as seen in a YouTube video tutorial. (YouTube screen grab) Twenty years after a rolling green hill and blue sky showed up as the default desktop wallpaper image for Microsoft’s Windows XP operating system, the search for “Bliss” is still an intriguing one. For those who haven’t […]

Rob Lipschutz and his co-founder daughters at The Chances App, Vanessa and Noelle Lipschutz. (Chances Image) At times, while working on his new startup with his two daughters, Rob Lipschutz is either “Rob” or he’s “Dad” depending on the advice he’s required to give or disagreement he might need to navigate. Such is the dynamic […]

Inside the Wizards of the Coast HQ in Renton, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Hasbro, the parent company of Wizards of the Coast, is reorganizing its business structure in order to continue growing the audience for Dungeons & Dragons. The Wall Street Journal reported that Wizards of the Coast, based in Renton, Wash., posted […]

The new reference dataset includes 64 assembled genomes representing 25 different human populations from around the globe. (Getty Images via Univ. of Washington) Twenty years after the first human genome sequence was published, an international research team has kicked the sequencing game to the next level with a set of 64 reference genomes that reflect […]

Amazon executive Jeff Blackburn speaks at his alma mater, Dartmouth College, in 2015. (Dartmouth/Eli Burakian Photo, used with permission.) Longtime Amazon exec Jeff Blackburn has joined venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners after stepping down from the Seattle tech giant earlier this week. Blackburn was one of Jeff Bezos’ top lieutenants for more than two […]

The most powerful lever President Joe Biden can pull to catalyze entrepreneurship in the U.S. is immigration reform. That’s according to two experts from the venture capital community who joined GeekWire on Thursday for a virtual discussion about the Biden administration and the entrepreneurial ecosystem. When asked about the one thing the government could do […]

Bill Gates. (GeekWire File Photo) Bill Gates entered Clubhouse for the first time on Wednesday night, taking his ongoing book tour to the popular invite-only conversation app to discuss everything from climate change to what he’s binging on Netflix. The Microsoft co-founder, promoting his new book “How to Avoid a Climate Disaster,” chatted with journalist […]

(Photo by Adam Schultz / Biden for President) U.S. President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Wednesday that will start an investigation into critical shortages of various necessary goods in the U.S. This includes the global semiconductor shortage, which has dramatically affected the manufacturing for electronic goods such as smartphones, video cards, laptops, and […]