Podcast Week in Geek Podcast: What’s next for Facebook? The fallout around data privacy scandals has put Facebook in a tough spot. After CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent two days… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Podcast: ‘Parallel reality’ displays show different content to multiple people, simultaneously After a decade-and-a-half covering the technology industry, it takes a lot to impress me, but the demo I saw with… Read More
Podcast Week in Geek Podcast: Trump vs. Bezos, and the next wave of Seattle tech IPOs President Trump went on the attack against Amazon and Jeff Bezos again this week, making veiled threats to regulate the… Read More
Podcast Week In Geek Podcast: What will it take for us to quit Facebook? Facebook is still reeling from the revelation that a British firm, Cambridge Analytica, improperly used millions of its users’ data.… Read More
Podcast The tipping point on cancer treatment, from research labs to the top of Mount Everest Luke Timmerman started climbing mountains with college buddies when he was in his 20s. He’s climbed Mount Rainier in Washington… Read More
Podcast Week In Geek podcast: A time machine back to the ’80s, and a juicy dispute over a new apple On this episode of the Week In Geek podcast, we take a trip back to the heyday of Walkmen and the… Read More
Podcast Library of Congress saves the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus and other online ‘web cultures’ If you had to describe the unique “culture” of the web by highlighting a bunch of websites, would you choose… Read More
Podcast Week In Geek Podcast: Uber and Lyft meet healthcare, and is Amazon good for Seattle? Is Amazon good for Seattle? That’s the question a community forum asked this week, with civic leaders arguing both sides.… Read More
Podcast Outreach, training and ‘culture add’: How tech can turn the corner on diversity and inclusion Inclusion. Culture fit. Unconscious bias. These words are buzzing through the technology industry as the “Me Too” movement and a… Read More
Podcast Week In Geek Podcast: Common sense for AI, Amazon vs. Google in smart-home security It was a big week for AI. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen announced he’s putting $125 million towards a new initiative… Read More
Podcast Week In Geek Podcast: Tech tangles with politics over net neutrality and government incentives The tech industry’s entanglements with politics were on full display this week. Washington and other states are fighting the FCC’s… Read More
Podcast GeekWire Podcast: MIT’s president on human intelligence and the quest for smarter machines Can a better understanding of human intelligence make for smarter machines? We explored that topic this week with Rafael Reif,… Read More
Podcast Dystopia or utopia? Author and futurist Ramez Naam revisits his 2015 predictions for the world At GeekWire, we don’t mind being held accountable for our predictions. But if we can hold others accountable — well,… Read More
Podcast Week in Geek Podcast: Why Amazon cut hundreds of jobs the same week it became a $700B company Amazon cut hundreds of jobs this week, but the company is still increasing its workforce overall, and market value continues… Read More
Podcast Scaling to optimism: Futurist, author and computer scientist Ramez Naam on the power of cheap tech If you were to ask globally known clean energy expert Ramez Naam what makes him optimistic about technology and the… Read More
Podcast Week In Geek Podcast: Whole Foods delivery via Amazon Prime Now, and a special dispatch from GeekWire HQ2 It was a busy news week from coast to coast at GeekWire. This episode of the Week In Geek comes… Read More
Podcast Week In Geek Podcast: Amazon’s new healthcare company explained, and inside the Amazon Spheres Amazon had a big week. The company announced plans to found a new healthcare company in partnership with bank JPMorgan… Read More
Podcast Week in Geek Podcast: A $9B biotech deal and a look at Pittsburgh’s tech renaissance GeekWire is going to Pittsburgh to cover the city’s tech renaissance, the challenges it faces as it grows and the… Read More
Podcast Week In Geek Podcast: Shortlist surprises, shoe-ins and controversy in Amazon’s search for HQ2 Amazon has announced a shortlist of 20 cities that are in the running to land its $5 billion second headquarters —… Read More
Podcast Week In Geek Podcast: We meet our ping-pong robot overlords, and a big shift in venture capital funding It’s no average week for the tech world — in fact, this week marked the biggest tech event in the U.S.,… Read More
Podcast Week in Geek Podcast: Inside the Motel 6 data privacy case, and Microsoft’s AI health investment Consumer data privacy breaches are often in the headlines, but this week brought different type of case: Washington state is… Read More
Podcast What are Meltdown and Spectre? GeekWire’s guide to the problems with the world’s computer chips Meltdown and Spectre. You’ve probably been hearing these terms a lot. These are vulnerabilities discovered in many of the computer… Read More
Podcast Year in Geek Podcast: How Amazon and Trump shaped tech’s year, and what to expect in 2018 2017 is a year for the history books. Between political unrest, historic natural disasters and leaps forward in innovation, this… Read More
Podcast How to take great smartphone pics: Photographer Chase Jarvis shows the potential of the iPhone X How can you take great pictures on your smartphone? And is the iPhone X really a step up in camera… Read More
Podcast Week in Geek: Magic Leap’s first product revealed; what Bill Gates gave his Secret Santa; and more Secretive augmented reality startup Magic Leap finally lifted the veil on its first product this week: Magic Leap One, a… Read More
Podcast Our AI future: How artificial intelligence will revolutionize jobs, and what we can do about it Artificial intelligence will change the world, for better and for worse — and we need to be prepared. That’s the… Read More
Podcast Net neutrality showdown pits Washington state vs. Washington D.C. On Thursday, the FCC voted to roll back regulations that protected net neutrality, or the rule that internet providers can’t… Read More
Podcast An ‘awesome year’? Gates Foundation CEO Sue Desmond-Hellmann has a radical view on 2017 It would be easy for Sue Desmond-Hellmann, CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to look back on 2017… Read More
Podcast Interview: UK’s senior official in Silicon Valley and Seattle talks Brexit, drones, net neutrality and more Andrew Whittaker is the British Consul General representing the United Kingdom in Northern California, Oregon, Washington and other portions of… Read More
Podcast Week in Geek Podcast: Elon Musk’s race to Mars takes some unexpected turns Depending on how you see it, Elon Musk is either an innovative genius building the future of mankind or a… Read More
