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Microsoft upgrades processor, storage, colors, and starting price for new Surface Laptop Go 2

Microsoft announced its Surface Laptop Go 2 on Wednesday morning, with a newer Intel Core i5 processor and twice the… Read More

Salesforce revenue up 24%; Tableau up 18%; Benioff sees little impact from economic turmoil

Salesforce revenue rose 24% to $7.4 billion in quarterly results that investors were watching closely for clues about the direction… Read More

AI2 researchers win ‘Test-of-Time’ award that honors long-lasting influence for AI-related papers

The fields of artificial intelligence and computational linguistics have seen tremendous advances in recent decades. Because of this, once novel-approaches… Read More

Microsoft Build: New AI dev tools turn pictures into apps, summarize text, and write code automatically

Microsoft’s annual Build developer conference, which starts Tuesday morning, will provide a new glimpse of the ways that artificial intelligence… Read More

A ‘Gates tax’ on robots? ‘Email From the Future’ imagines a world without ultra-rich tech titans

Visions of Utopia go back to the year 1516, when Thomas More literally wrote the book on the subject —… Read More

Our robot partners: Inside a research lab exploring the future of human-machine collaboration

PITTSBURGH — The biggest potential for robots and automation isn’t taking jobs from humans, but instead making those jobs better… Read More

Starbucks’ app is down and coffee drinkers are freaking out

It was a rough Thursday morning for Starbucks customers who rely on the company’s app to order their Frappuccinos and… Read More

Tableau adds data storytelling and AI predictions as its annual revenue nears $2B under Salesforce

Tableau Software showed a new storytelling feature that automatically explains data from Tableau dashboards in plain language, building on the… Read More

Online retailer Zulily lays off corporate workers as parent Qurate aims to cut expenses

Online retailer Zulily laid off corporate employees last week as its parent company looks to cut costs amid broader industry… Read More

White House and Jeff Bezos continue to trade jabs in dispute over inflation claims

The White House returned fire and Jeff Bezos took another swing Monday in a back-and-forth dispute between the Amazon founder… Read More

Bezos vs. Biden: Amazon founder calls out president over inflation and corporate taxes

Jeff Bezos spent a good chunk of Friday tweeting about everything from his critique of slidedecks to heartfelt remarks about… Read More

GeekWire Awards FAQ: Meet the finalists and tune in tonight to our annual celebration of PNW tech

The GeekWire Awards are here! Our annual celebration of Pacific Northwest tech takes place later today, May 12, at the… Read More

Jonathan Burstein, 1976-2022: Engineer, investor and entrepreneur was a natural problem-solver

Jonathan Burstein, who co-founded voice technology startup Jargon and made a lasting impact at Seattle-area tech companies including Microsoft, Amazon,… Read More

Commentary: Why the courts are right to rule against LinkedIn in battle over data scraping

The common practice of “scraping” a website’s publicly available data has come under legal attack. A landmark court decision (HiQ… Read More

Facing NASDAQ delisting, RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser makes bid to take company private

Nearly 25 years after streaming media pioneer RealNetworks went public in one of the hottest IPOs of the dot-com era,… Read More

Backed by Amazon and newly public, Aurora accelerates self-driving tech, starting with trucks

PITTSBURGH — On our last trip to the Steel City, we took a ride in one of Uber’s self-driving vehicles. It… Read More

Redfin posts $597M in revenue, tops expectations, stays optimistic in uncertain housing market

Seattle-based online real estate brokerage Redfin surpassed expectations in the first quarter and expressed optimism about its prospects for gaining… Read More

Investment group that includes eBay and ex-Disney chair investing $263M into Funko

Funko, the Everett, Wash.-based pop culture collectibles maker, has attracted a $263 million investment from a consortium led by The… Read More

Zillow Group tops Q1 estimates but analysts wary amid volatile housing market

Zillow Group beat estimates for its first quarter revenue and profit but unpredictable housing market trends are raising concern for… Read More

Boeing is moving its headquarters from Chicago to Virginia — and setting up a new R&D hub

More than two decades after the Boeing Co. moved its headquarters from its Seattle birthplace to Chicago, the aerospace giant… Read More

5 cybersecurity tips for companies that own and operate critical infrastructure

Congress passed a new law in March that requires organizations responsible for critical infrastructure to report cybersecurity incidents to the… Read More

Expedia Group unveils new tech platform for travel industry, and scoring system for hotels

Expedia Group announced a new technology platform to provide the underlying online infrastructure for other companies to build their own… Read More

Microsoft president commits $5M to campaign to restore UW’s historic ‘Boys in the Boat’ Shell House

A campaign to restore the 104-year-old ASUW Shell House at the University of Washington in Seattle is getting a boost… Read More

Starbucks will sell NFTs that enable exclusive experiences and perks for customers

Starbucks is diving into the world of NFTs. As part of its quarterly earnings report Tuesday, the Seattle coffee giant… Read More

The robots aren’t coming for your jobs — at least according to these AI and robotics leaders

PITTSBURGH — There are no shortage of headlines about automation, artificial intelligence and robotics wiping out large swaths of employment,… Read More

Expedia’s Q1 revenue up 81% to $2.2B; CEO sees ‘positive indicators’ for leisure travel recovery

Expedia Group shares were up more than 6% in after-hours trading after the company reported its first quarter financials Monday,… Read More

Four key challenges robots need to overcome to play a bigger role in business and industry

PITTSBURGH — Breakthroughs in robotics are generating a new wave of startups and commercial activity in this city, and the… Read More

It’s such a good feeling, a very good feeling, for Pittsburgh to know it didn’t win Amazon HQ2

PITTSBURGH — It would have been fun for me if Amazon’s HQ2 had ended up here, not only for the… Read More

‘We’ve literally run out of human beings’: Robots rise in wake of pandemic and labor shortages

PITTSBURGH — Looking out the window of the Boeing 737 this week after landing at Pittsburgh International Airport, gateway to… Read More

T-Mobile reaches 1M home internet users a year after launch; overall Q1 revenue tops $20B

T-Mobile US added 338,000 home internet users in the first quarter, reaching 1 million customers a year after launching the… Read More