8:00 AM PDT GeekWire Weekly8:00 AM PDT Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 7, 2020
12:48 PM PDT Health/Life Sciences12:48 PM PDT COVID-19 transmission in Seattle region rises back above key threshold, new estimates show
10:24 AM PDT Tech10:24 AM PDT GeekWire Update: Pausing to reflect on the historical weight of the moment
7:09 AM PDT Podcast GeekWire Podcast: Tech and the police; Amazon sues former VP; remembering Manny Vellon
3:00 AM PDT Space3:00 AM PDT SpaceX sends Starlink and Planet satellites to orbit in a new kind of piggyback launch
10:50 PM PDT Space10:50 PM PDT Rocket Lab’s 12th launch sends satellites into space for NRO, NASA and Australia
4:31 PM PDT Geek Life4:31 PM PDT Coolest thing we’ve seen this week? This drone video of ‘Black Lives Matter’ street art in Seattle
3:34 PM PDT Health/Life Sciences3:34 PM PDT Latest testing shows no big spike in COVID-19 cases due to protests, as thousands wear masks
10:56 AM PDT Space10:56 AM PDT Japanese firms finish acquisition of Spaceflight, with BlackSky satellite venture going its own way
10:07 AM PDT Tech10:07 AM PDT Why Amazon can sue a former cloud VP for joining Google despite state’s new non-compete law
9:59 AM PDT Tech9:59 AM PDT Blocked from Google project, former AWS VP tells Amazon, ‘this is not right and don’t do this to your other employees’
9:39 AM PDT Amazon9:39 AM PDT Photos: Inside an Amazon fulfillment center, masked up and spaced apart during COVID-19
9:35 AM PDT Startups9:35 AM PDT Tech companies get creative with pandemic and protest-related perks for employees
8:21 AM PDT Startups8:21 AM PDT Tech vets lead Panda AI, a secretive new spinout from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
7:30 PM PDT Space7:30 PM PDT Five years after Pluto encounter, New Horizons probe does a far-out parallax experiment
4:52 PM PDT Health/Life Sciences4:52 PM PDT Amid COVID-19 pandemic, experts lay out 10-point plan for a genomic revolution in public health
12:54 PM PDT Health/Life Sciences12:54 PM PDT Adaptive Biotechnologies and Microsoft team up to track coronavirus-fighting cells
12:33 PM PDT Health/Life Sciences12:33 PM PDT Virtual care provider Conversa raises $12M as investors bet big on digital health startups
12:00 PM PDT Impact Series12:00 PM PDT Founders Unfound: How this podcast is using personal stories to circumvent racial bias in tech
10:32 AM PDT Startups10:32 AM PDT Seattle construction tech startup HeadLight raises $25M to grow photo-based inspection software
10:28 AM PDT Microsoft10:28 AM PDT Microsoft promises not to sell facial recognition tech to police before Congress passes regulations
9:01 AM PDT Science9:01 AM PDT WiBotic raises $5.7M to boost wireless systems for charging up robots and drones
8:45 AM PDT Space8:45 AM PDT NASA picks Astrobotic to deliver its VIPER rover to lunar south pole for nearly $200M
8:24 AM PDT Amazon8:24 AM PDT Is Amazon’s facial recognition moratorium a victory for police reformers or just good PR?
8:02 AM PDT Startups8:02 AM PDT Listen, learn and launch: A resource guide to end racism in tech through lasting systemic change
8:00 AM PDT Startups8:00 AM PDT Zillow co-founder, Madrona, others invest in $4.5M round for new Seattle startup Zeitworks
7:20 AM PDT Amazon7:20 AM PDT Report: Amazon to be hit with antitrust charges as soon as next week over third-party seller data
5:00 AM PDT Space5:00 AM PDT Boeing teams up with Varjo on virtual reality training for Starliner space taxi
5:06 PM PDT Startups5:06 PM PDT Seattle startup Uplevel adds features to measure engineer productivity in remote work settings