GeekWire Podcasts – Page 5 of 34

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Seattle Schools vs. Social Media: What’s at stake in the suit against TikTok, Instagram, and others

Scanning through a list of court filings last Friday evening, Jan. 6, one case jumped out immediately: “SEATTLE SCHOOL DISTRICT… Read More

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Microsoft, OpenAI, ChatGPT … and Bing? The surprising way the integration could work

What would a combination of OpenAI’s ChatGPT natural language chatbot with Microsoft’s Bing search engine look like? This week on… Read More

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GeekWire’s 2022 News Quiz: Challenge yourself with our annual test of tech news knowledge

How closely were you reading GeekWire this year? Here’s your chance to put that accumulated knowledge to the test. It’s… Read More

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‘We’re having an App Store moment’: Generative AI and ChatGPT top list of key technologies for 2023

Startup entrepreneur and investor Ben Gilbert, co-founder and managing director of Pioneer Square Labs and PSL Ventures, is always watching for the… Read More

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Resetting Amazon: Why the tech giant should rethink its business from scratch

Amazon is resetting its business. Is it doing enough to change its mindset? In an analysis published this week, former… Read More

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Inside the battle against bad bots: Why F5’s CEO believes good technology can ultimately prevail

For anyone reading the news about Ticketmaster and Taylor Swift, or Twitter and Elon Musk, the problem of malicious bots… Read More

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What’s wrong with Alexa: Former insider on the challenges facing Amazon’s AI voice assistant

Amazon created the initial technical scaffolding for Alexa quickly, jumping out to an early lead in the market for smart… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: What we’re thankful for in tech, business, and science in 2022

It doesn’t always come naturally to us, as cynical reporters, but during Thanksgiving week on the GeekWire Podcast, it’s our… Read More

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What are you thankful for in tech? We’re compiling reader and listener submissions this week

Thanksgiving week has arrived here in the United States, and given some of the doom and gloom in tech and… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Layoffs land at Amazon HQ; Redfin’s real estate reversal; Jeff Bezos and Jay-Z

Amazon became the latest tech giant to make layoffs in its corporate workforce this week in the face of the… Read More

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When Mark Zuckerberg met Seattle: Facebook, Meta, and a turning point for Silicon Valley

The year was 2011, Facebook was serving a mere 600 million users, and Mark Zuckerberg was making his pitch to… Read More

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Amazon’s new reality: Where the tech giant is doubling down and cutting back in tough times

Amazon has grown dramatically over the past decade, surpassing 1.5 million employees and extending its reach into nearly every corner… Read More

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The road ahead for autonomous vehicles: Aurora CEO Chris Urmson on the future of cars and trucks

Fully autonomous vehicles are closer to commonplace than you might expect, as cars and big rigs gain the ability to… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: Microsoft cybersecurity leader Charlie Bell on the quest to civilize the digital world

Can the online world move from medieval times to a new era of civilization? That was the question on Charlie Bell’s… Read More

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GeekWire’s Elevator Pitch: Analyzing the four winning pitches in advance of the live finale

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we hear the pitches made by four startup CEOs in the 32 seconds it… Read More

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GeekWire Podcast: The new world of hybrid work, and the next generation of smartphone users

Hybrid work is here to stay, but some big changes are needed to make it work. That was the message… Read More

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The first sustainable mega-region? Former Gov. Chris Gregoire on Cascadia’s climate quest

Business, governmental and environmental leaders from Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia met at the U.S.-Canada border this week to plan… Read More

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Robot law: Public policy, legal liability, and the new world of autonomous systems

Algorithmic disgorgement might sound like a phrase from a science-fiction horror film. In fact, it’s a new tool for regulators… Read More

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Here’s why Major League Baseball’s live digital audio streams aren’t actually live

We are now decades into the digital revolution, so why haven’t high-tech audio streams caught up to old-fashioned radio waves?… Read More

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GeekWire at the Ballpark: AM radio vs. digital audio; robot umpires; and Amazon cuts the line

Sitting in the stands down the first base line Thursday at T-Mobile Park in Seattle, I was feeling like a… Read More

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Understanding Amazon: Secrets of the company’s success, and where it’s headed next

Amazon is one of the most extraordinary business stories of our time. Many people in the tech industry have a… Read More

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What we learned from the life of early Amazon investor and Seattle business leader Tom Alberg

Seattle-based investor and business leader Tom Alberg, who died last week at the age of 82, was a key figure… Read More

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The state of the tech economy: Takeaways from Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Meta and Alphabet

This week on the GeekWire Podcast, we play highlights and offer our thoughts on the recent earnings calls of Amazon,… Read More

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The pioneering spirit and joyful life of late ‘Cranium’ creator Richard Tait, in his own words

Growing up as a child in Scotland, one of Richard Tait’s heroes was entrepreneur Richard Branson. After Tait co-founded board… Read More

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From White House to Amazon and Airbnb: Jay Carney on the intersection of tech and politics

Amazon’s head of global corporate affairs Jay Carney, the former White House press secretary under President Obama, made some news… Read More

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How the ‘7 Forms of Respect’ can change work, with Seattle entrepreneur and author Julie Pham

Do people on your team multitask in meetings, or focus on the person speaking? The answer to that question will… Read More

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‘We’re in this for good’: Amazon plans more home robots despite early skepticism about Astro

Amazon unveiled Astro, its first home robot, in September, after developing the rolling Alexa device in secret for several years.… Read More

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Interview: Microsoft’s president on turbulent times for the company, country, and world

Brad Smith, like many in tech and the broader world, thought 2022 might bring a bit of a break. Halfway… Read More

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Amazon, robots, and diverging views of automation and the future of work

LAS VEGAS — What happens to jobs, the economy and business when a company can create the perfect worker out… Read More

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What the rest of us can learn from Bezos’ big mistake … and other lessons in ‘career self-care’

In many ways, Jeff Bezos would seem to have it all. But when is enough enough? In a new book,… Read More