8:00 AM PDT GeekWire Weekly8:00 AM PDT Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of May 31, 2020
9:00 AM PDT Geek of the Week9:00 AM PDT As Seattle wins ‘Library of the Year,’ Chief Librarian Marcellus Turner sees key role for tech in pandemic
8:00 AM PDT Startups8:00 AM PDT Seattle startup Cabana pitches vanlife vacations as travel alternative during pandemic
7:31 PM PDT Health/Life Sciences7:31 PM PDT Vaccine veterans preview milestones on the long road to the end of the pandemic
2:30 PM PDT Microsoft2:30 PM PDT LinkedIn CEO apologizes after employees make ‘appalling’ comments during virtual town hall
2:00 PM PDT Amazon2:00 PM PDT Is that message really from Amazon? Tech giant cracks down on fraudulent email campaigns
1:36 PM PDT Startups1:36 PM PDT Product placement and sales analytics startup Observa draws big-name investors with $725K round
1:00 PM PDT Space1:00 PM PDT Don’t panic: Huge, headline-grabbing asteroid has no chance of hitting us anytime soon
12:16 PM PDT Health/Life Sciences12:16 PM PDT Chinook Therapeutics to merge with Aduro Biotech as it pushes forward with kidney disease therapies
10:30 AM PDT Podcast As protests spread across the country, mobile video creates mosaic of violence and tool for change
9:30 AM PDT Startups9:30 AM PDT Give InKind raises more cash as social giving platform gains popularity amid pandemic
4:34 PM PDT Space4:34 PM PDT After sparking consternation at NASA, Trump campaign pulls ad featuring SpaceX launch
3:42 PM PDT Startups3:42 PM PDT This Seattle startup is helping physical retailers detect face masks and social distancing
3:35 PM PDT Retail3:35 PM PDT Pop culture toy maker Funko will lay off about 250 employees in further fallout from COVID-19
3:08 PM PDT Amazon3:08 PM PDT Slack expands Amazon partnership, will switch to AWS Chime infrastructure for user calls
12:26 PM PDT Amazon12:26 PM PDT Elon Musk tweets, ‘Time to break up Amazon’ as he defends author in dispute over COVID-19 book
12:22 PM PDT Impact Series12:22 PM PDT Two efforts fill surprising tech gap between restaurants, donors and those who are hungry
10:11 AM PDT Amazon10:11 AM PDT Virtual internships: Tech companies and students adjust as pandemic forces remote experience
9:31 AM PDT Amazon9:31 AM PDT Warehouse workers sue Amazon over COVID-19 exposure after death of an employee’s relative
8:30 AM PDT Tech8:30 AM PDT Gates Foundation pledges $1.6B for vaccines; Bill Gates addresses ‘bizarre’ conspiracy theories
6:15 AM PDT Space6:15 AM PDT Everything must boldly go! Defunct asteroid mining company’s hardware put up for auction
4:30 AM PDT Startups4:30 AM PDT Seattle biotech startup Athira raises $85M to develop therapies for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s
7:08 PM PDT Space7:08 PM PDT SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches eighth batch of 60 Starlink satellites and makes its ‘first fifth’ landing
4:57 PM PDT Podcast 5 ways tech leaders can address racial inequity, from diversity expert and tech CEO Cheryl Ingram
2:10 PM PDT Tech2:10 PM PDT Smartsheet stock sinks 20% after company posts $85.5M in quarterly revenue
1:20 PM PDT Health/Life Sciences1:20 PM PDT WHO resumes using hydroxychloroquine in COVID trial; discouraging study retracted due to doubts
12:28 PM PDT Amazon12:28 PM PDT Amazon donates $10M to ACLU, Equal Justice Initiative, NAACP, other social justice organizations
12:23 PM PDT Science12:23 PM PDT Kitty Hawk grounds its flying-raft project and ‘doubles down’ on Heaviside air vehicle