5:00 AM PDT Tech5:00 AM PDT Adiós and sayonara, CD-ROMs: Rosetta Stone offers old-school users a free mass upgrade
3:46 PM PDT Amazon3:46 PM PDT Amazon slams Trump’s new visa ban as ‘short-sighted’ risk to American competitiveness
3:10 PM PDT Space3:10 PM PDT LeoStella confirms delivery of BlackSky’s Earth observation satellites for SpaceX launch
1:08 PM PDT Apple1:08 PM PDT Apple wins early support from its ‘friends at Microsoft’ in transition to new Mac processors
12:15 PM PDT Apple12:15 PM PDT WWDC roundup: Top news and best tweets from Apple’s big developer conference
11:52 AM PDT Games11:52 AM PDT Microsoft shutters Mixer game streaming platform, will partner with Facebook Gaming
11:18 AM PDT Health/Life Sciences11:18 AM PDT Institute halts COVID-19 clinical trial for hydroxychloroquine due to low enrollment
10:13 AM PDT Civic10:13 AM PDT President Trump plans restrictions on skilled work visas used by tech and other industries
10:13 AM PDT Tech10:13 AM PDT $1M grant will help researchers explore the use of robotic bees for crop pollination
9:35 AM PDT Health/Life Sciences9:35 AM PDT Seattle area sees new spike in COVID-19 cases, weekly count up for 1st time in more than 2 months
7:36 AM PDT Microsoft7:36 AM PDT Microsoft will acquire CyberX to beef up Azure IoT security offering
6:00 AM PDT Science6:00 AM PDT XPRIZE Rapid Reskilling offers $5M to boost innovations in job training
4:00 AM PDT Space4:00 AM PDT Virgin Galactic and NASA make a deal on services for private orbital astronauts
8:00 AM PDT GeekWire Weekly8:00 AM PDT Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 14, 2020
12:05 PM PDT Working Geek12:05 PM PDT Longtime UX leader Karen Clark Cole on staying present and learning to tell good fear from bad
10:10 AM PDT Amazon10:10 AM PDT Whole Foods workers protest after grocer prohibits employee-worn Black Lives Matter masks
10:10 AM PDT Podcast GeekWire Podcast: The case against Apple’s App Store; IPOs go crazy; quest for a better email inbox
9:00 AM PDT Geek of the Week9:00 AM PDT A love for sci-fi sparked Megan Brown’s STEM path and led to quantum computing at Microsoft
8:35 AM PDT Startups8:35 AM PDT Revolution Agriculture reimagines the food supply chain with urban ‘farmlets’ in backyards
6:01 PM PDT Space6:01 PM PDT Boeing shifts its team leaders for space station and Starliner space programs
3:01 PM PDT Space3:01 PM PDT NASA gets set to put astronauts on Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic suborbital flights
12:30 PM PDT Startups12:30 PM PDT This startup could be a dog owner’s best friend as it uses machine learning to help guide key decisions
12:15 PM PDT Startups12:15 PM PDT Energy-saving, waste-reducing, planet-helping startups join 2020 Cascadia CleanTech Accelerator
11:52 AM PDT Podcast ‘Racism is a pandemic,’ and this is how the tech industry can be part of the ‘vaccine’
11:48 AM PDT Amazon11:48 AM PDT Amazon takes heat for chicken and waffles Juneteenth celebration at Chicago warehouse
11:05 AM PDT Tech Moves11:05 AM PDT Tech Moves: Madrona grows investment team; MicroVision, Axon add board members; and more
9:21 AM PDT Health/Life Sciences9:21 AM PDT Alpine Immune Sciences stock rises after biotech firm lands $60M from AbbVie for lupus drug
3:43 PM PDT Tech3:43 PM PDT Comcast offers 60 days of free broadband for low-income families in Washington state through 2020
3:38 PM PDT Health/Life Sciences3:38 PM PDT Paul G. Allen Family Foundation donates $2.2M to COVID-19 causes (with an assist from Amazon)