Tech – Page 88 of 306

Inside PPG’s secretive R&D lab, where paint giant creates high-tech coatings to aid self-driving cars

PITTSBURGH — After pulling off Route 8 and rounding the corner up a steep hill lined with leafless trees, it… Read More

High-tech cooking startup Sansaire shutting down, ceasing production of new sous vide device

High-tech cooking startup Sansaire is closing its doors. The Seattle-based company is halting development of its latest WiFi sous vide cooking device,… Read More

Our robot neighbors: Hanging out with the mechanical inhabitants of ‘Robotics Row’

PITTSBURGH — I’m sitting on the floor of a small office in the Lawrenceville neighborhood surrounded by machines that would… Read More

Pittsburgh Profile: BEST Robotics Director Rosemary Mendel works to get kids into STEM

PITTSBURGH — Rosemary Mendel’s job is getting kids excited about robotics, a technology at the heart of her city’s innovation… Read More

Billionaire Robert Bigelow sets up new company to operate future space stations

Nevada-based Bigelow Aerospace has had space modules in orbit for more than a decade, but now billionaire founder Robert Bigelow… Read More

A walk through Pittsburgh’s East Liberty: Scenes from a neighborhood in transition

PITTSBURGH — Neighborhoods across this city have been through lots of change over the past several decades, but perhaps none… Read More

Art meets tech: 5 Seattle companies showcase amazing paintings, sculptures and work spaces

The dictionary defines art as “the expression or application of human creative skill or imagination, typically in a visual form… Read More

Over-the-air wireless charging inches toward consumer market, starting with small devices

PITTSBURGH — The idea of ubiquitous over-the-air wireless charging is a dream for people living in a tangled web of… Read More

Impinj Q4 revenue comes in even lower than expected, stock drops another 11 percent

Seattle-based RFID technology company Impinj, which warned two weeks ago that its fourth quarter revenue would be lower than anticipated,… Read More

Carbonite looks for more of the online backup market with Seattle’s Mozy now under its wing

After a long stint inside the evolving EMC-VMware-Dell Technologies conglomerate, Mozy has a new home at Carbonite. Carbonite, which recently… Read More

I went one-on-one with Carnegie Mellon’s champion poker bot and did NOT get crushed

PITTSBURGH — In preparing for this story, I was all set to describe in detail how I had been soundly… Read More

Boeing helps lead new $32M investment in Singularity University, explores deeper partnership

Aerospace giant Boeing is teaming up with Kirkland, Wash.-based WestRiver Group to lead a $32 million Series B investment round… Read More

These 8 Pittsburgh-area startups make up the third class of the city-backed PGH Lab incubator

PITTSBURGH — PGH Lab, a startup incubator led by the city of Pittsburgh, today announced its third class of companies.… Read More

Pittsburgh leaders open CoLab18 community space, aim to provide equal access to technology

PITTSBURGH — As the technology industry fuels economic growth in this city, community leaders want to make sure all residents… Read More

Is a startup ‘funding gap’ holding Pittsburgh back? Tech leaders disagree over popular theory

PITTSBURGH — This city’s tech clout has grown immensely in recent years, yet it is often said that Pittsburgh still… Read More

Varsity Tutors raises another $50M to expand globally, accelerate growth in Seattle

Varsity Tutors, an education technology startup that combines live experts with an online and mobile platform for learners, today announced… Read More

Q&A: The inside story of ‘Ledger,’ the academic journal for blockchain and cryptocurrency research

PITTSBURGH — Christopher Wilmer is a chemical engineer at the University of Pittsburgh, an assistant professor in the Swanson School… Read More

Bill and Melinda Gates join Lin-Manuel Miranda to talk ‘Hamilton,’ global health, AI and more

Bill and Melinda Gates answered “10 tough questions” in their annual letter, released Tuesday morning. Later in the day, they… Read More

More beer for your buck: PicoBrew Z Series brewing machines target restaurants, bars and more

PicoBrew, the Seattle-based makers of craft beer brewing appliances suitable for the homebrewer’s kitchen counter, is upping the game with… Read More

How Carnegie Mellon researchers are preparing for the rise of edge computing, with a $27.5M grant

Edge computing will change many of the underlying assumptions that applications make in the era of cloud and mobile computing,… Read More

Travel giant Expedia cuts jobs in tech infrastructure and operations teams

Expedia Inc. has cut about 30 jobs from its technology infrastructure and operations teams, most of them at the online… Read More

Uber settles self-driving trade secret suit with Waymo for $245M in equity

The legal battle that threatened to upend Uber’s self-driving vehicle program is coming to an end. RELATED: Inside Uber’s self-driving… Read More

The ethics of AI: Robots will rise, but will they rule us all?

PITTSBURGH — David Danks thinks a lot about the implications of artificial intelligence. In fact, the Carnegie Mellon University philosophy and… Read More

Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff talks about his investments in SpaceX and other ventures

Zillow Group has just reported an eye-popping $1 billion in annual revenue — but the Seattle-based real estate data company’s CEO,… Read More

Expedia stock drops more than 15% as travel giant misses earnings expectations

Travel technology giant Expedia missed the mark on its 2017 earnings report Thursday, sending its stock tumbling in after-hours trading.… Read More

Study: Average tech worker salary in Seattle hits $132K, making city the top spot for relocation

Tech workers in Seattle are making more and their salaries go further than those in competing markets, making the city… Read More

Here’s how much T-Mobile paid to acquire Layer3 for its upcoming TV service

T-Mobile paid $325 million for Layer3, the Denver-based company that will form the backbone of the self-proclaimed Un-carrier’s TV service… Read More

TurboPatent lands $3.25M to help companies protect their inventions using automation

Seattle startup TurboPatent has raised $3.25 million to bolster its growing suite of automation tools for patents and intellectual property. TurboPatent focuses… Read More

Twitter stock soars 25% after company reports first-ever profit

Shares of Twitter were up 25 percent after the company posted its first-ever profit for the fourth quarter of 2017.… Read More

Square reveals location of its stealthy Seattle office, right across from the Amazon Spheres

Square is just getting settled in Seattle, and it is already planning to grow. GeekWire reported on Square’s Seattle office… Read More