With backing from Bill Gates, Pivotal Commware raises $50M for 5G products Kirkland, Wash.-based Pivotal Commware says it has closed on a $50 million funding round that will help it expand research,… Read More
Go deep on snow depth data: New online tool puts Pacific NW mountain totals in historic context As the Seattle area braces for snow later this week, the mountains around the Pacific Northwest have already seen sizable… Read More
Charge! WiBotic’s Commander software plots the power plan for fleets of robots It’s hard enough to remember to keep your smartphone charged up, so can you imagine how much harder it’d be… Read More
New study links our built-in sleep patterns to phases of the moon — even in Seattle A newly published study adds to the long-debated evidence that humans are hard-wired to sleep less when the moon is… Read More
Robert Winglee, 1958-2020: UW’s ‘Rocket Man’ launched thousands of space and science careers The global aerospace community and students across the Northwest have lost a researcher, mentor and “Rocket Man” who inspired and… Read More
One man’s quest for the COVID-19 vaccine: Tips to remember when it’s your time to be immunized Trying to get an appointment for a COVID-19 vaccine on the day that eligibility was expanded to new age groups… Read More
Blue Angels say Seafair’s post-COVID air show will be cooler and louder than ever The U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels had to pass up their traditional Seafair air show in Seattle last year due to… Read More
Boeing’s Insitu subsidiary to pay $25M to settle whistleblower complaint about used drone parts Bingen, Wash.-based Insitu, a Boeing subsidiary, has agreed to pay $25 million to settle allegations that it used recycled parts… Read More
Outspoken climate researcher dishes out some advice for Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos If billionaires like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos really want to maximize their efforts to solve the global climate crisis,… Read More
Boeing agrees to pay $2.5B to resolve criminal fraud case in 737 MAX crisis Boeing says it’s entered into a $2.51 billion agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to resolve a criminal charge related… Read More
Fraud allegations fly in dispute over brain-scanning tech made famous on Netflix’s ‘Making a Murderer’ Neuroscientist Larry Farwell doesn’t read minds, but he can usually catch a liar. For decades, Farwell refined and promoted a… Read More
Boeing says its composites R&D center will be turned to other purposes, ending an era Boeing says it’ll be repurposing the Seattle-area facility that has served as the focus for research into the composite materials… Read More
FAA issues safety rules that could smooth the way for Amazon drone deliveries After months of feedback and fine-tuning, the Federal Aviation Administration today issued its final versions of safety rules for drones… Read More
Electric aircraft motor company MagniX lands deal to power UK startup’s planned 300-plane fleet A Seattle-area company has been picked to provide the electric motors for a proposed fleet of 300 aircraft to be… Read More
After 737 MAX debacle, former Boeing CEO makes a comeback at Monarch self-driving tractor venture It’s been almost a year since Boeing fired CEO Dennis Muilenburg over his handling of the 737 MAX crisis, but… Read More
QuantumScape pursues ‘breakthrough’ in lithium batteries — with tips from Bill Gates Bill Gates isn’t just investing in QuantumScape’s potentially revolutionary lithium-metal battery technology — he’s giving the venture advice as well.… Read More
‘Smellicopter’ takes flight at UW with moth antenna on drone to fly toward smells and avoid obstacles University of Washington researchers continue to push the boundaries between the technical and insect worlds in the pursuit of gaining… Read More
President Trump signs an executive order guiding how federal agencies use AI tech President Donald Trump today signed an executive order that puts the White House Office of Management and Budget in charge… Read More
Kymeta rolls out its next-gen connectivity service, blending satellite and cellular links Kymeta Corp., the Redmond, Wash.-based connectivity venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, is making the next generation of its… Read More
‘Superintelligence’ in Seattle: AI researchers do a reality check on a movie that adds romance to tech Seattle, Microsoft and the field of artificial intelligence come in for their share of the spotlight in “Superintelligence” — an… Read More
FAA’s go-ahead for 737 MAX’s return to flight kicks off a massive software upgrade Two years after the catastrophic crash of a Boeing 737 MAX jet in Indonesia touched off an aviation crisis, the… Read More
Sexbot or not? Ethicist stimulates debate on the senior set’s need for companionship Are sex robots just what the doctor ordered for the over-65 set? In a newly published research paper, a bioethicist… Read More
Microsoft helps found an industry alliance to advance DNA data storage systems Microsoft is teaming up with other companies to form an alliance to advance the field of DNA data storage, which… Read More
New human cell atlases track how tissues develop, providing a road map for research Two new human cell atlases have mapped the molecular machinery that builds tissue in the weeks after conception — and… Read More
Science-fiction master Ted Chiang explores the rights and wrongs of AI What rights does a robot have? If our machines become intelligent in the science-fiction way, that’s likely to become a… Read More
Photos: Tree deep in Asian giant hornet nest, entomologists recover ‘chewed off’ radio tracker Just in time for Halloween, the Washington State Department of Agriculture is revealing just what was inside a truly haunted… Read More
UW receives $23.5M grant to build and deploy fleet of robotic ocean-monitoring floats The University of Washington is receiving a large chunk of a massive new grant from the National Science Foundation to… Read More
Health experts weigh in on what we’ll have to do to get through a winter of COVID-19 You may want to put off that big holiday dinner. Don’t have your heart set on sending the kids back… Read More
Seattle startup Membrion creating spray coating to help cloth masks better guard against coronavirus Membrion, the Seattle startup that spun out of the University of Washington four years ago, is working on new technology… Read More
UW researcher put tiny tracking technology on giant hornets to help state deal with murderous pest A researcher from the University of Washington, using tiny technology, has been playing a big role in helping state entomologists… Read More
