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T-Mobile’s new spin on the phone number, Digits, coming May 31

After months of testing with tens of thousands of mobile guinea pigs, T-Mobile today announced a May 31 debut for… Read More

Summoning the Demon: Why superintelligence is humanity’s biggest threat

[Editor’s Note: This guest commentary is by Richard A. Clarke and R.P. Eddy, authors of the new book, Warnings: Finding Cassandras To Stop… Read More

Xbox’s $9.99/month gaming subscription service debuts June 1 with more than 100 rotating titles

Xbox Game Pass, the $9.99 gaming subscription service, will become available to all users starting June 1. Microsoft announced the… Read More

Report: ARM-owner Softbank takes $4B stake in Nvidia as AI research heats up

Softbank is shaping up to be a major force behind the chip designs of the next decade, if a report… Read More

How technology could change the DMV: mobile driver’s licenses, cars that issue speeding tickets and more

Technology has disrupted and changed a variety of industries and experiences, but most wouldn’t put a trip to the DMV in the… Read More

Study: Seattle region has one of the biggest gender wage gaps in the U.S., with women earning 78.6 cents on the dollar

Women working in King County make 78.6 cents for every dollar their male counterparts earn, according to a new study… Read More

Chevrolet Bolt EV Review: At 200+ miles with juice to spare, this is the affordable electric car to beat

For years I have been waiting for automakers to come out with an all-electric car that can travel over 200… Read More

Insurance software company Vertafore leaving Seattle suburb for Denver’s ‘burgeoning tech scene’

Vertafore, the Bothell, Wash.-based insurance industry software maker, is moving its headquarters to Denver. A report in the Puget Sound… Read More

Wave Broadband acquired for $2.36B by TPG Capital, will combine with East Coast telecom company RCN

Wave Broadband is combining with RCN Telecom Services to form the nation’s sixth largest internet and cable operator in a $2.36… Read More

Woman awarded $100K after suing Starbucks over drive-thru coffee spill that burned her lap

A woman who was burned when the lid popped off her 20-ounce Venti Pike Place Roast in a Starbucks drive-thru has… Read More

Watch out Convoy: Here comes Uber Freight

It’s always a daunting proposition when a multi-billion dollar juggernaut enters your startup turf. That happened this week for Seattle-based… Read More

Science, spinoffs and french fries: Q&A with Adriane Brown, Intellectual Ventures president and incoming Pacific Science Center board chair

Adriane Brown is president and chief operating officer of Intellectual Ventures, the Bellevue, Wash.-based intellectual property and tech company best known for… Read More

Amazon No. 2 on LinkedIn’s Top Companies list — see where else ‘the world wants to work now’

The biggest names in tech are also the best places to work according to LinkedIn’s Top Companies 2017 list, which… Read More

Napster parent Rhapsody cuts jobs, CEO departs amid debt challenges and strategic review

Rhapsody, the Seattle-based company that operates the Napster subscription music service, is cutting an undisclosed number of jobs, part of an… Read More

T-Mobile wanted Huawei to pay $500M in ‘Tappy’ robot technology theft case, it got $4.8M

A federal jury awarded T-Mobile $4.8 million in a long-running legal dispute with Chinese telecom giant Huawei over a smartphone testing robot,… Read More

Google Assistant coming to iPhone, escalating competition with Siri, Alexa and Cortana

Google just confirmed that it’s bringing its Google Assistant to the iPhone, expanding its voice technology beyond Google Home and… Read More

Washington state’s tougher distracted driving law to take effect this year, ahead of schedule

TACOMA, Wash. — Cody Meyer, 23, was a flagger in bright yellow clothes for a private company installing fiber-optic cable on a… Read More

Boeing makes first 737 MAX delivery to Malindo Air after concern over engines

Boeing today marked the first delivery of a new-generation 737 MAX jet with an official handover to Malaysia-based Malindo Air at the… Read More

Glympse location sharing comes to Samsung TVs, lets users track friends, family, pizza from couch

In the past, people used to have ask their friends or family what they were up to, but now they… Read More

Uber announces new integration with Transit app to better connect users with public transportation

Uber announced Tuesday it is integrating with the Transit app in more than 50 cities across the U.S., including Seattle… Read More

WannaCry after the global ransomware attacks? Here’s what you need to know

On May 12, 2017, an extremely powerful new variant of ransomware called WCry 2.0 (WannaCry, Wanna Cryptor, etc.) spread to… Read More

T-Mobile and Huawei make closing arguments in alleged theft of ‘Tappy’ robot technology

Lawyers for T-Mobile and Chinese telecom giant Huawei are finishing up closing arguments today in U.S. District Court in Seattle in… Read More

Judge rules Uber engineer accused of stealing data from Alphabet’s Waymo must stop work on self-driving car technology

A federal judge ruled Monday that Anthony Levandowski, the engineer leading Uber’s self-driving car efforts, must stop work for the… Read More

Alphabet’s Waymo will partner with Lyft on self-driving technology

Google parent Alphabet and Lyft will work together on self-driving technology. The New York Times reported Sunday that Waymo, the… Read More

This high-school freshman went to Microsoft Build: What he learned about AI, the cloud and the future

[Editor’s Note: Atul Ajoy is a ninth grader at Redmond High School, a tech enthusiast and blogger who was invited by Microsoft… Read More

Paul Allen calls inaugural Upstream Festival a success with 30K attendees, 360 performances

Paul Allen seems happy with his first attempt at creating a new festival for the Northwest. The Microsoft co-founder and… Read More

Inside a ‘secret show,’ Shins frontman James Mercer talks apps, musical inspiration and more

Just a few blocks away from the bustling tech hub that is Amazon’s Seattle headquarters, dozens of people who represent what Seattle… Read More

Microsoft issues ‘highly unusual’ ransomware patch for XP and other old Windows versions

Microsoft today took the “highly unusual step” of releasing a public patch for older Windows versions that are otherwise only… Read More

Hip-hop star Macklemore on handling success, working with radio, and his loyalty to Seattle

Ben Haggerty has a complicated relationship with radio. The 33-year-old rapper, better known as Macklemore, credits the traditional radio distribution model for… Read More

RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser commits $250k for Mother Jones project to investigate Trump-Russia connection

RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser is putting his money where his mouth, or in this case, keyboard, is. His Glaser Progress Foundation… Read More