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Orbite's Brienna Rommes in classroom

A taste of space on Earth: Astronaut training startup raises $4M to market way-out experiences

Seattle-based Orbite says that it’s completed a $4 million funding round and sealed a strategic deal with Accor, one of… Read More

Illustration: Interior of Orbite astronaut training facility

Orbite is raising funds as it gets set to expand training programs for spacefliers

Orbite Space, a venture that aims to offer down-to-Earth spaceflight training programs on a “try before you fly” basis, is… Read More

Orbite customers on zero-G airplane flight

Orbite begins the launch countdown for its commercial astronaut training programs

After getting its start in Seattle and testing its business model in France and Florida, a space travel venture called… Read More

Virtual fighter jet seen on AR screen

Augmented-reality fighter pilot training system aces first flight tests, Boeing says

Boeing and an augmented-reality company called Red 6 have successfully flown and tested a virtual display system in a TA-4J… Read More

From book club to bootcamp: How these Seattle tech veterans took bold action on racial inclusion

Femi Akinde and Mike Koss met a decade ago at StartPad, a former Seattle co-working space where Koss was director… Read More

Microsoft unveils sweeping job training initiative to teach digital skills to 25M impacted by pandemic

Microsoft plans to provide digital skills training for 25 million people this year under a new, multi-million dollar initiative that… Read More

XPRIZE Rapid Reskilling offers $5M to boost innovations in job training

The nonprofit organization known as XPRIZE has been in charge of tech competitions focusing on far-out frontiers such as space… Read More

Virtual reality is helping babies breathe thanks to a project from Seattle Children’s and Oxford

As a neonatologist at Seattle Children’s, Dr. Rachel Umoren knows that every second counts when a baby is born and… Read More

RealSelf employee fought off sexual assault with training she learned at work — and now the startup is offering the class to the public

Editor’s note: This story contains explicit language. After Kelly Herron fought off a sexual offender in a bathroom at Seattle’s Golden… Read More

New Amazon Web Services initiative aims to build supply of trained AWS workers in UK

Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest public-cloud company, has created enormous demand for AWS expertise at the growing number companies that… Read More

Developer bootcamp Coding Dojo launches Amazon Alexa training program

Coding Dojo, a Bellevue, Wash.-based developer bootcamp, is launching a new training program for Amazon’s virtual assistant, Alexa, starting today.… Read More

From street to software: This non-profit helps previously homeless men and women start coding careers

In one week, Jeremy Wallace will graduate from General Assembly‘s full-time, immersive web development course, armed with a set of… Read More

Fast-growing fitness training startup Volt Athletics inks partnership with USA Football

Volt Athletics is on a roll. The Seattle-based startup, which offers a customizable online fitness training platform for athletes, this… Read More