8:00 AM PDT GeekWire Weekly8:00 AM PDT Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of July 9, 2023
8:23 AM PDT Podcast Amazon’s Alexa and the rapid evolution of AI: A conversation with Alexa chief Rohit Prasad
8:00 AM PDT Civic8:00 AM PDT Meet the new leader of Sea.citi, a nonprofit that aims to engage Seattle tech workers with civic life
1:37 PM PDT Cloud Tech1:37 PM PDT Chinese hacking group exploited multiple Microsoft flaws to access U.S. government email accounts
12:12 PM PDT Civic12:12 PM PDT Downtown Seattle worker traffic slowly increasing, but still lags behind most U.S. cities
7:00 AM PDT Startups7:00 AM PDT Despite venture capital slowdown, these investors remain bullish on Seattle
4:30 AM PDT Health/Life Sciences4:30 AM PDT CurvaFix lands $39M to boost curved surgical device used for pelvic fracture treatment
12:00 AM PDT Games12:00 AM PDT Antstream Arcade will bring cloud gaming service and 1,300 retro titles to Xbox
7:27 PM PDT Amazon7:27 PM PDT Rare corpse flower blooms in Amazon’s Spheres and thousands line up to snap a pic and take a sniff
12:54 PM PDT Amazon12:54 PM PDT Large graffiti painted on street outside Amazon’s Seattle HQ targets company as ‘Prime polluter’
10:48 AM PDT Microsoft10:48 AM PDT Microsoft faces new scrutiny after Chinese hackers infiltrate U.S. government via Exchange Online
10:29 AM PDT Health/Life Sciences10:29 AM PDT EchoNous, maker of an AI-powered portable ultrasound system, raises $7M
8:00 AM PDT Startups8:00 AM PDT Tangibly, a Seattle startup that uses AI to help companies protect trade secrets, raises $6.5M
7:33 AM PDT Amazon7:33 AM PDT ‘Largest sales day in Amazon’s history’: Customers bought 375M items during Prime Day
7:30 AM PDT Startups7:30 AM PDT Tech Moves: SoundCommerce vet launches startup; Microsoft Federal leader departs; and more
7:00 AM PDT Civic7:00 AM PDT Tech CEOs and professors on how the Supreme Court affirmative action ruling could impact hiring
4:51 PM PDT Tech4:51 PM PDT FTC will appeal court ruling that paved way for Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision
4:28 PM PDT Startups4:28 PM PDT Rad Power Bikes backpedals out of Europe and lays off employees again
3:00 PM PDT Civic3:00 PM PDT Seattle mayor expands tech tool built with Google to streamline benefit program application process
3:00 PM PDT Games3:00 PM PDT Researchers find 87% of U.S. classic video games are out of print and ‘critically endangered’
1:55 PM PDT Civic1:55 PM PDT Seattle lands $393K in federal funds to help residents get high-speed internet
9:04 AM PDT Health/Life Sciences9:04 AM PDT Wavely Diagnostics raises $1.35M for its tech to detect ear infections with a smartphone
7:38 AM PDT Amazon7:38 AM PDT Former Amazon Web Services data center leader Chris Vonderhaar joins Google Cloud
7:08 AM PDT Bot or Not7:08 AM PDT Is baseball ready for robot umpires? We fielded an informal survey at the MLB All-Star Game in Seattle
2:49 PM PDT Space2:49 PM PDT Blue Origin’s next-gen BE-4 rocket engine fails dramatically during testing in Texas
1:25 PM PDT Games1:25 PM PDT Analysis: Legal battle is only the first step to success in Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision
12:36 PM PDT Sustainability12:36 PM PDT California company breaks ground on Washington’s first commercial sustainable aviation fuel plant
