12:01 PM PDT Space12:01 PM PDT Weather forces a day’s delay in William Shatner’s Blue Origin suborbital space trip
8:00 AM PDT GeekWire Weekly8:00 AM PDT Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Oct. 3, 2021
7:11 AM PDT Sustainability7:11 AM PDT Is the tide turning on renewable marine power? Entrepreneurs test wave-powered energy systems
8:22 AM PDT Geek Life8:22 AM PDT Ciara at the GeekWire Summit: Entertainer and entrepreneur on music, business and having impact
8:19 AM PDT Tech8:19 AM PDT Guest post: AI surveillance in prisons is a terrible idea, both technologically and ethically
7:52 AM PDT Startups7:52 AM PDT Tech Moves: Leafly hires general counsel; Skilljar and LevelTen add execs; and more
6:47 AM PDT Podcast GeekWire Podcast: Andy Jassy on Amazon’s future; Yoky Matsuoka on Google and Apple; Ciara on music and business creativity
10:43 AM PDT Amazon10:43 AM PDT Twitch got e-vandalized overnight with photos of Jeff Bezos amid fallout from data breach
9:23 AM PDT Startups9:23 AM PDT Former Kymeta CEO lands $6M to reimagine AI training with new Seattle-area startup Rendered.AI
8:21 AM PDT Startups8:21 AM PDT Led by founders who met at Microsoft, Chronosphere lands $200M, reaches unicorn status
8:00 AM PDT Games8:00 AM PDT For the love of gaming: Husband and wife co-founders raise $2.6M for social platform Game Jolt
2:42 PM PDT Civic2:42 PM PDT Seattle business leaders request ‘immediate action’ from the city to improve safety in downtown
1:09 PM PDT Health/Life Sciences1:09 PM PDT Washington State U. lands $10M in effort to bolster nutrition and uptake of whole-grain foods
12:34 PM PDT Startups12:34 PM PDT Funding news roundup: Pandion’s parcel network, Copper’s banking app for teens, mentoring app Tribute, life navigator OwnTrail, and more deals
11:59 AM PDT Startups11:59 AM PDT Tech Moves: Ex-Glassdoor CTO will lead Auth0 engineering; Flyhomes hires CRO; and more
11:30 AM PDT Health/Life Sciences11:30 AM PDT Preventing the next pandemic: WSU will lead $125M global project to find, analyze animal viruses
10:33 AM PDT Amazon10:33 AM PDT Why Amazon didn’t give up on games: Andy Jassy on ‘spectacular failures’ and long-term vision
9:07 AM PDT Startups9:07 AM PDT Microsoft acquires collaboration software startup Ally to bolster employee experience platform Viva
9:00 AM PDT Science9:00 AM PDT Want to improve your public speaking? This startup’s AI tool aims to give you a silver tongue
7:34 AM PDT Tech7:34 AM PDT As election fraud narratives persist, misinformation research shows sources of ‘toxic feedback loops’
6:00 AM PDT Startups6:00 AM PDT Online learning company CreativeLive acquired by Israel-based Fiverr, a marketplace for freelancers
1:36 PM PDT Tech1:36 PM PDT Amazon’s Twitch hit with major breach of source code, security tools, streamer payouts, and more
12:42 PM PDT Health/Life Sciences12:42 PM PDT Allen Institute helps release comprehensive atlas of mammalian brain region
10:45 AM PDT Tech10:45 AM PDT Quantum hardware startup Rigetti Computing to go public in $1.5B SPAC deal with ex-Zillow CEO
10:20 AM PDT Tech10:20 AM PDT GeekWire Summit 2021 recap: Leaders and luminaries share insights at our annual conference
10:19 AM PDT Health/Life Sciences10:19 AM PDT Icosavax co-founder and UW researcher Neil King talks vaccine development in the ‘digital era’
8:13 AM PDT Startups8:13 AM PDT Seattle startup wants to help B2B sellers fix ‘spray and pray’ strategy with more relevant messaging
2:54 PM PDT Tech2:54 PM PDT TPG Capital will acquire majority stake in workflow automation company Nintex
12:39 PM PDT Amazon12:39 PM PDT Amazon CEO: Relationship with Seattle City Council has become ‘rougher,’ but hope remains
12:32 PM PDT Tech12:32 PM PDT Robotics pioneer Yoky Matsuoka on the human touch in her new personal assistant venture Yohana
