Tech Moves: VC firm Ascend names new partner; Common Room adds board member; and more — Startup veteran Jen Haller has been named partner at Ascend, the Seattle-based pre-seed venture capital firm. Haller first joined the… Read More
Play Podcast Microsoft gives $5M to UW Medicine to use AI to accelerate response to next pandemic Play The speed of the creation of vaccines for the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 was a modern marvel. You might… Read More
UW scientists turn Amazon’s Alexa into heart monitoring device using sound waves Researchers at the University of Washington have figured out a way to use machine-learning algorithms to turn smart speakers into… Read More
Play Podcast Wait, was that COVID?! Revisiting the early days of the pandemic to investigate a viral mystery Play One of our favorite things at GeekWire is to try something new on our beats and write about it. We… Read More
Play Podcast GeekWire Podcast: Snowflake, Madrona and a giant IPO; Bill Gates Sr.’s legacy; Apple, UW and COVID Play Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week: Snowflake, the data warehousing company, came out with a… Read More