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Ex-golf pro links with Seattle-area AI experts on app that uses 3D motion analysis to improve game

Before you take yet another mulligan, consider that the tool to improving your golf game might not be found in… Read More

Seattle cutout artist Rudy Willingham teaming with singer Lil Nas X for TikTok’s first foray into NFTs

Rudy Willingham, the Seattle artist known for his colorful, stop-motion photo cutouts on social media, is teaming with rapper/singer Lil… Read More

Live video platform Videon lands $7.3M, hires new CEO and plans to open co-HQ in Seattle

Videon, a live streaming video infrastructure company, has raised $7.3 million in funding and hired a new Seattle-based CEO as… Read More

No company, no product, no problem: Video platform raises $2.3M by leveraging earlier success

It’s not easy to raise more than $2 million in a pre-seed round without a minimally viable product, let alone… Read More

Seattle startup Persona pivots and seizes on video chat popularity by using AI to curate highlight reels

Persona, the platform initially built as way to make social media a more intimate way to share family memories, has… Read More

Amazon’s Ring to let customers opt out of receiving police video requests

Ring, the Amazon-owned home security and video doorbell company, will update its app to let customers opt out of receiving… Read More

Facebook and Microsoft join researchers to set up contest for deepfake video detection

Facebook says it’s working with Microsoft, the Partnership for AI and an international team of academics to create the Deepfake… Read More

New heights for Moment, as mobile photo startup launches Kickstarter for drone lens and more

Seattle-based Moment, makers of hardware, software and more designed to take mobile photography to new heights, is setting its sights… Read More

Fake airship

Why that amazing April Fools’ video of an Amazon blimp got taken way too seriously

A video clip showing a drone-dispatching airship emblazoned with the Amazon logo is a powerful contender for April Fool’s joke… Read More

Amazon developing a free, ad-supported video news app for Fire TV, report says

Fire TV users may soon be getting their news from Amazon. The company plans to debut a free app for… Read More

Led by Microsoft vets and Intelius co-founder, Clocktree rolls out telehealth platform for healthcare counseling

Early Microsoft engineers and Intelius co-founder Chandan Chauhan are behind a stealthy telehealth startup that just launched its customer-facing product,… Read More

The troubling state of consumer privacy: We’ve entered a ‘trust apocalypse’ era — now what?

It’s been a year since news broke of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which political operatives improperly took advantage of… Read More

EarthNow satellite

EarthNow fleshes out plan to deliver video that shows Earth from orbit in real time

BELLEVUE, Wash. — A satellite startup called EarthNow is laying out the details of its plan to blanket our planet with… Read More

Watch: As Seattle tunnel nears opening, 6-year time-lapse also captures Amazon going up, up up

If it appears, on many days, like Amazon’s Seattle headquarters has seemingly popped up overnight to transform the look of… Read More

TLDR: Digitizing movies before they vanish

Today’s featured stories A nonprofit battles the ‘magnetic media crisis’ by digitizing aging movies before they vanish Seattle police try… Read More

A nonprofit battles the ‘magnetic media crisis’ by digitizing aging movies before they vanish

In a narrow, windowless, closet of an office in Seattle’s City Hall, two young women are battling against the “magnetic… Read More

Video: Are you a Rubik’s Cube geek? Try jumping out of an airplane and solving one in free fall

I’ve never solved a Rubiks’ Cube. I’ve definitely never attempted to solve one after jumping out of an airplane. Maybe… Read More

IGTV

Instagram announces IGTV, a new standalone app for watching long-form vertical video

So much for all that effort I make to get people to turn their phones to landscape position when shooting… Read More

Dylan Rose

Tired of phones at concerts? College student wins Amazon Catalyst grant for tiny headband camera

Dylan Rose was tired of seeing live music through the smartphone screens of fellow concertgoers. The 19-year-old University of Washington… Read More

Scarecrow Video

Seattle’s iconic Scarecrow Video turns 30 and uses vast catalog to stay in the fight against streaming

A SEATTLE APARTMENT – THE YEAR 2018 A couple sits in front of a laptop. The lights are dim. They… Read More

Holodome

Welcome to Holodome, Paul Allen’s beautiful first step into the future of shared immersive reality

When it comes to the side projects of Seattle’s richest tech titans, billions of pixels are apparently as fun to… Read More

New show: GeekWire’s ‘Elevator Pitch’ tests startup founders on 42-second ride up the Space Needle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTczFJitgY4 Just 42 seconds. That’s all it takes to reach the top of Seattle’s Space Needle. And that’s the amount… Read More

Airbus telecom satellite

Bill Gates, Airbus and SoftBank invest in satellite video startup that wants to help us ‘see and understand the Earth live and unfiltered’

The latest spinout from Intellectual Ventures, EarthNow, says it’s coming out of stealth mode with backing from Microsoft co-founder Bill… Read More

Secret footage of a hopscotch court in downtown Seattle proves a lot of us are still kids at heart

Busy commuters might be a hop, skip, and a jump away from work but that doesn’t mean all of them… Read More

Moment

Moment hits Kickstarter goal in just 41 minutes and makes more than $665K for smartphone video gear

Update, March 28, 9:30 a.m. PT: Moment met its Kickstarter goal of $50,000 in just 41 minutes on Tuesday. Offering… Read More

Mop vandal

Video play-by-play of a Seattle vandal armed with a mop cleans up in the comedy department

Here’s some Friday internet advice for you: Skip the memo, and go with the mop. An apparently intoxicated gentleman armed… Read More

Watch: Why we picked Pittsburgh for GeekWire HQ2, and what’s next in this editorial adventure

Curious how GeekWire decided to plant its flag in Pittsburgh for the month of February? Several members of the team… Read More

DOJ files lawsuit to block AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit to prevent AT&T from gobbling up Time Warner for $85.4 billion,… Read More

Diagon Alley

Thousands of trick or treaters converge on epic Harry Potter Diagon Alley in Seattle driveway

Jon Chambers was truly blown away. The Seattle dad who wanted to create something cool for his kids for Halloween… Read More

LinkedIn CEO says they’re ‘open to the idea’ of original video content

Netflix. Hulu. Amazon Video. LinkedIn? The Microsoft-owned business social network, best known for displaying the career histories of tens of… Read More

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