10:11 AM PDT GeekWire Events Highlights10:11 AM PDT Sign up for GeekWire’s first-ever virtual sports competition, raising money for nonprofits
9:40 AM PDT Startups9:40 AM PDT Capital Markets Gateway raises $25M from Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, other banking giants
9:04 AM PDT Amazon9:04 AM PDT Amazon Alexa leader: COVID-19 has sparked ‘a huge increase in the use of voice in the home’
8:00 AM PDT Junior Geek of the Month8:00 AM PDT Junior Geek of the Month: Math whiz and Rubik’s Cube ace Simmi Sen catches Apple’s eye with app
8:00 AM PDT Space8:00 AM PDT Space Adventures looks for a customer to do a spacewalk after Russia gives its OK
12:01 AM PDT Health/Life Sciences12:01 AM PDT Allen Institute will host $40.5M brain research center to map the effects of Alzheimer’s disease
3:53 PM PDT Amazon3:53 PM PDT AWS ‘Honeycode’ makes Amazon a player in booming no-code software movement
3:08 PM PDT Amazon3:08 PM PDT Amazon workers renew call for transparency as public health officials disclose new COVID cases
1:51 PM PDT Health/Life Sciences1:51 PM PDT Pandemic projections suggest requiring masks could save 33,000 lives in U.S.
10:57 AM PDT Space10:57 AM PDT Tethers Unlimited delivers software-defined radios to Millennium Space for satellite constellation
10:15 AM PDT Tech10:15 AM PDT Sonos cuts 12% of workforce due to pandemic; impact on Seattle engineering office not yet clear
10:03 AM PDT Microsoft10:03 AM PDT Slack will let up to 20 organizations collaborate, extending reach and escalating Microsoft rivalry
8:16 AM PDT Startups8:16 AM PDT Accolade sets terms for IPO, aims to raise up to $211M in Seattle’s first public offering this year
7:00 AM PDT Civic7:00 AM PDT Paul G. Allen Family Foundation’s ‘first of its kind’ housing and homeless services facility opens in Seattle
6:00 AM PDT Space6:00 AM PDT Relativity makes deals with Vandenberg AFB and Iridium for California launches
12:01 AM PDT Amazon12:01 AM PDT Amazon forms ‘Counterfeit Crimes Unit,’ under pressure to escalate fight against fake products
9:30 PM PDT Tech9:30 PM PDT Testing Impossible Sausage at Starbucks: Breakfast sandwich looks, tastes like the real thing
5:52 PM PDT Space5:52 PM PDT Black hole or neutron star? Gravitational waves bring a cosmic conundrum to light
3:40 PM PDT Games3:40 PM PDT Want to fix Seattle traffic? Redditor makes game that allows players to tweak city streets and more
2:22 PM PDT Amazon2:22 PM PDT Amazon’s carbon footprint grew 15% in 2019, highlighting the challenge of net zero emissions
1:00 PM PDT Startups1:00 PM PDT Humanly raises $800K to help companies automate recruiting process amid economic crisis
11:34 AM PDT Space11:34 AM PDT NASA lays out a plan to qualify suborbital spacecraft for its astronauts and scientists
10:53 AM PDT Microsoft10:53 AM PDT Microsoft vows to use financial strength to fuel societal change in sweeping racial justice plan
10:10 AM PDT Science10:10 AM PDT HyperSciences pushes ahead to next stage of blaster technology (and fundraising)
9:58 AM PDT Health/Life Sciences9:58 AM PDT Secretive Seattle biotech company raises more than $700M to develop new ways to modify genes
9:00 AM PDT Startups9:00 AM PDT Wyze launches $49.99 outdoor smart home camera, undercutting competitors on price
8:00 AM PDT Startups8:00 AM PDT UW spinout AnswerDash, a contextual Q&A service for customer support, acquired by CloudEngage
6:30 AM PDT Amazon6:30 AM PDT Amazon unveils $2 billion fund to invest in startups building sustainable technology
