Tech

Code Fellows pledges $5M to new Tech Opportunity Fund, with shout-out from VP Biden

Code Fellows, a coding bootcamp headquartered in Seattle, is pledging $5 million to help women and minorities learn tech skills… Read More

Elon Musk says launch-pad rocket fireball poses SpaceX’s biggest puzzle yet

SpaceX’s billionaire founder, Elon Musk, says the launch-pad explosion that resulted in the loss of a Falcon 9 rocket and… Read More

Airbnb’s answer to #AirbnbWhileBlack: New anti-discrimination rules and ‘Open Door’ policy

Airbnb is finally responding to months of discrimination complaints from people of color. Over the past year, users have been sharing… Read More

Q&A: Washington state gubernatorial candidate Bill Bryant on CS education, tech jobs, and trade

(Updated at 11:45 a.m. to clarify and add comments from Gov. Inslee’s campaign). Bill Bryant says he has a plan… Read More

Australian airlines move to ban use of fire-prone Galaxy Note 7; Florida man’s Jeep goes up in flames

Keeping explosive materials off of airplanes would seem to be a top priority, and given the troubles with the recently recalled Samsung Galaxy… Read More

ReBoot career accelerator launches in Seattle to help women return to work

Retention is one of the biggest obstacles to gender equity in the workforce. Far more women than men take time off… Read More

Sony PlayStation announces more powerful, slimmed down versions of PS4

Sony on Wednesday announced a pair of new models of the PlayStation 4; one that is slimmed down and another that is… Read More

Starbucks gets into original content with new ‘Upstanders’ video and podcast series

Starbucks today unveiled its first-ever original content series called “Upstanders” that it hopes will “inspire Americans to engage in acts… Read More

Coding Dojo offers scholarships for ITT Technical Institute students left in the lurch

The closure of all 130 ITT Technical Institute campuses, due to pressure and scrutiny from the U.S. Department of Education, will… Read More

Dropbox doubles size of Seattle outpost, with room for 150 people

A little more than year after officially opening its Seattle engineering office, Dropbox has grown to 65 people at the location and just… Read More

Julep CEO Jane Park blasts Washington State AG over characterization of lawsuit settlement, calls it ‘unethical’

Julep, the Seattle-based beauty products company, has settled a lawsuit with Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s office over deceptive… Read More

Seattle utility glitch lets more than 3,000 people see other users’ bills

It was a tough first day Monday for the city of Seattle’s new billing system for utility customers, as more… Read More

Experiencing South Park’s ‘Nosulus Rift’: Are virtual reality farts the future of games?

The answer is no, virtual reality farts are not the future of games. But smells in general? A definite possibility. That was… Read More

Is Twitter courting suitors? Acquisition rumors swirl as board members prepare to meet

It’s no secret that Twitter is struggling. The company continues to post losses each quarter and new user adoption is… Read More

Glowforge hits $45M in sales for 3D laser printers; shipments still on track for December

Lots of people want what Glowforge is producing. The Seattle startup today announced that it recently reached $45 million in… Read More

Can apprenticeships help solve the tech talent gap?

For those who want to start a career in tech, the pathway can be difficult — despite the stunning scarcity of… Read More

Cinematic VR Challenge shows how virtual reality is set to transform film

As the sun set over the Olympic Mountains on a warm and muggy Sunday, I trekked from the manicured suburbia… Read More

‘Mr. Robot’ Rewind: Elliot unleashed in Episode 9

[Spoiler Alert] This article discusses plot points and hidden secrets of eps2.7_init_5.fve. If you haven’t watched it yet, check it… Read More

Science, technology and art merge at Seattle Art Museum’s ‘Poetic Hybrids’ exhibit

Artist Ginny Ruffner’s Poetic Hybrids exhibit makes concepts of genetic modification, augmented reality and sophisticated 3D modeling accessible enough for a… Read More

Chinese smartphone maker Alcatel to expand 40-person Seattle-area office

Alcatel is expanding its Seattle-area hub. The China-based smartphone maker is preparing to move into a new Bellevue office, just a… Read More

Dawn probe points to ice volcano and thin atmosphere on dwarf planet Ceres

Scientists say a mysterious mountain on the dwarf planet Ceres was apparently once an ice volcano, spewing salty water and… Read More

Seattle Growth Podcast: Why the tech industry needs to join the boomtown conversation

Seattle is growing at an unprecedented rate, with the Puget Sound region adding an average of roughly nine new jobs… Read More

Can Amazon top this? What happened when we tested Fred Meyer’s drive-up grocery service

I have been the principal grocery shopper in my household for years, but that doesn’t stop me from aimlessly and inefficiently wandering… Read More

Will the real Bill Bryant please stand up? Seattle VC gets confused with gubernatorial candidate — a lot

Bill Bryant was talking with a close friend recently, whose mother is a lifelong Democrat. She told her daughter that… Read More

DefinedCrowd lands $1.1M from Amazon’s Alexa Fund and others to build out machine learning platform for AI and speech apps

DefinedCrowd, a platform that provides big data for speech and natural language processing technology, closed a $1.1 million seed funding round… Read More