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New leash on life: Why this Tableau vet walked away from tech to roll with the dogs
avril 05, 2026
Eric Howard, founder of Dog Tired, rides his One Wheel while running Boone, a golden retriever, near Lake Tapps, Wash. (Photo courtesy of DogTired) It’s tough to tell who has the bigger smile: the guy zipping by on the Onewheel, the dog running alongside him at full sprint, or the passersby...
Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 29, 2026
avril 05, 2026
Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of March 29, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on...
Amazon meets FedEx Office: A seamless return and one very dumb question about stamps
avril 04, 2026
A microchip pet door awaits its fate at the FedEx Office on NW 46th Street in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) For a while now, since the closure of the Amazon Fresh Pickup in Seattle, I’ve been complaining about having to drive across the Ballard Bridge to Whole Foods to do my Amazon...
Rec Room shutdown, robot umps, torpedo bats, FedEx meets Amazon, and OpenAI’s odd media buy
avril 04, 2026
This week on the GeekWire Podcast: Rec Room, the Seattle-based social gaming platform once valued at $3.5 billion, is shutting down — and Snap is picking up some of the pieces. Todd talks about what it was like fielding calls from distraught users on the night of the announcement. John...
Tech Moves: Microsoft execs depart; TerraClear, UserTesting, EchoMark and Read AI add leaders
avril 03, 2026
Joy Chik. (LinkedIn Photo) — Joy Chik announced she will retire from Microsoft in July after nearly three decades. Her eight roles there ranged from software design engineer to her current title: president of identity and network access. “I’m excited to expand my public company board work...
Rubin Observatory team discovers 11,000 new asteroids, with help from University of Washington software
avril 03, 2026
A model of the inner solar system shows asteroids discovered by the Rubin Observatory in light teal. Previously known asteroids are dark blue. The model highlights almost 12,700 asteroids that the Rubin team has discovered over the course of a year and a half. (Photo: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin...
Flat tire? Dead battery? Speedy’s serves stranded Seattle riders as a quicker e-bike picker-upper
avril 03, 2026
Speedy’s fouder Tyler Swartz with the electric van he uses to pick up and drop off e-bikes. (Speedy’s Photo) If you’ve ever tried to lift and fit a big, heavy e-bike into the back of a car, Tyler Swartz feels your pain, and went to work on a solution. Swartz, a Seattle native and cycling...
Stop trying to make people read instructions: 10 startup lessons from Convoy co-founder Dan Lewis
avril 03, 2026
Convoy co- founder and Microsoft Corporate Vice President Dan Lewis at the Seattle AI Startup Summit on April 2, 2026. (Ken Yeung Photo) Dan Lewis’ career is hard to summarize in a sentence. He was a product manager at Microsoft, then an early employee at the Seattle AI startup Wavii, which...
Ground control to Microsoft: Artemis 2 astronauts deal with Outlook hiccup in deep space
avril 02, 2026
Artemis 2 astronauts are using Microsoft Surface Pro computers on board the Orion spacecraft. (GeekWire Illustration) Updated below with details from NASA press conference. Bound for the Moon, astronauts aboard NASA’s Artemis 2 Orion spacecraft experienced a challenge familiar to many of us...
Startup launched by former AWS energy team emerges with $7M to help solve data center power crunch
avril 02, 2026
Soma Energy’s co-founders, from left: CEO Ath Caramanolis, Chief Technology Officer Mario Souto and Chief AI Scientist Henrique Hoeltgebaum. (Soma Energy Photos) Soma Energy, a startup founded by former Amazon energy managers, emerged from stealth Thursday with $7 million in funding. The...
This video on Seattle’s KEXP has music fans celebrating human creativity in an age of AI slop
avril 02, 2026
Seattle independent radio station KEXP prides itself on being a leader in new music discovery. They may have moved the bar up several notches with a band and video that is going viral on YouTube. The performance by Canadian duo Angine de Poitrine, playing live during the Trans Musicales...
Like digital paper dolls: New Armoire feature uses AI to show an array of choices in outfit selection
avril 02, 2026
Armoire’s “Outfit Inspiration” feature allows shoppers to cycle through a number of options for pieces to create the right outfit. (Armoire Image) Seattle-based online clothing rental company Armoire is leaning into the AI in fashion with a new feature called “Outfit Inspiration” that allows...
GeekWire Awards: From the farm to space, Next Tech Titan finalists growing to meet big challenges
avril 02, 2026
(Company logos) The path from successful startup to industry heavyweight is often marked by the ability to solve massive, complex problems at scale — whether those challenges are on a farm, battlefield or in low-Earth orbit. This GeekWire Award, presented by Baird, takes notice of the next...
‘Wood is wood’: WSU research finds Yankees’ viral ‘torpedo’ bats perform the same as traditional bats
avril 02, 2026
A research team determined that the torpedo bat, left, and traditional bat perform equally well in hitting power with only a slight difference in the location of the bat’s sweet spot (WSU Photo / Voiland College of Engineering and Architecture) The New York Yankees just cruised through Seattle...
Microsoft releases new AI models to expand further beyond OpenAI
avril 02, 2026
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Microsoft is expanding its roster of in-house AI models, releasing a new speech-to-text system and making two existing models broadly available to developers for the first time. The moves by Microsoft AI (MAI) are...
From kelp pots to kilns: UW’s CoMotion Labs reveals 8 startups joining its newest climate cohort
avril 02, 2026
Emily Power, CEO of Ocean Made, shows the difference in the root structure of tomato plants grown in the startup’s kelp-based pots, on the left, versus plastic pots. (Ocean Made Photo) The University of Washington’s CoMotion Labs has selected the second cohort of startups for its Climate Tech...
‘Let’s go!’ NASA launches humanity’s first moon voyage in nearly 54 years
avril 02, 2026
NASA’s Space Launch System rises from its Florida launch pad, sending the Artemis 2 crew into orbit. (NASA via YouTube) After years of postponements and close to $100 billion in spending, NASA has launched the first mission to send astronauts around the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972. The...
Report puts Seattle among leading global innovation cities, but it needs more premium office space
avril 02, 2026
The downtown Seattle skyline. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Seattle has officially leveled up from a “secondary” tech market to a critical “reinforcer” of the global innovation economy — but the city is running out of room to grow, according to a new report. The latest edition of...
On Apple’s 50th, recalling the time a Microsoft engineer drove Steve Jobs so crazy he invented the iPad
avril 01, 2026
David Pogue’s new book, “Apple: The First 50 Years,”is packed with stories about the rivalry between Apple and Microsoft. But one stands out above the rest. In late 2005, Steve Jobs attended the 50th birthday party of a Microsoft engineer, the husband of a friend of his wife, Laurene. Over...
Robinhood sues WA state to block enforcement of gambling laws against prediction markets
avril 01, 2026
Robinhood isn’t waiting to get sued in Washington state. The financial services company filed a preemptive federal suit against Washington’s attorney general and gambling commission, arguing the state can’t use its gambling laws to shut down prediction market trading that it contends is...
GeekWire Awards: Sustainable Innovation finalists tackle energy, fashion and farming
avril 01, 2026
Finalists for GeekWire’s 2026 Sustainable Innovation Award, from left going clockwise: Helion Energy fusion device (Helion Photo), OCOchem team (OCOchem Photo), TerraPower’s mock fuel rods (TerraPower Photo), Ravel team (Ravel Photo), and IUNU’s image capturing system. (IUNU...
Donations meet disruption: Nonprofits navigate the AI era with mix of enthusiasm and anxiety
avril 01, 2026
A delivery of medical supplies by Project C.U.R.E. (Project C.U.R.E. Photo) [Editor’s Note: Agents of Transformation is an independent GeekWire series, underwritten by Accenture, exploring the adoption and impact of AI and agents. See coverage of our related event.] Project C.U.R.E. had the...
Oracle cuts 491 jobs in Washington state as it embraces AI-led engineering
avril 01, 2026
Oracle’s Cloud Experience Center in downtown Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Oracle is laying off 491 employees in Washington state, according to a filing Tuesday from the state Employment Security Department. The cuts impact workers at two Seattle offices as well as remote...
Seattle VR gaming studio Polyarc announces ‘significant’ layoffs
mars 31, 2026
Moss: Book II. (Polyarc screenshot) Polyarc, the Seattle-based VR gaming developer behind the award-winning Moss series, announced that it’s had to “significantly reduce the size of the company.” The announcement, via LinkedIn on Monday, notes that the layoffs come after “an unsuccessful...
Latest Meta layoffs target 168 employees in Washington state
mars 31, 2026
Meta’s Dexter Station office in Seattle. (Meta Photo) Another round of layoffs at Meta will affect 168 employees in Washington state, according to a filing from the state Employment Security Department. The cuts are part of a broader reduction impacting hundreds of Meta workers around the...
‘I don’t think anything will ever replace Rec Room’: Fans shocked by gaming platform shutdown
mars 31, 2026
(Rec Room Image) The despair among Rec Room players is real. Users of the popular social gaming platform expressed their disbelief and sadness over the demise of the Seattle-based company, which announced Monday that it is shutting down on June 1, and that some of its assets are being...
AI startup Oumi, from Microsoft and Google vets, launches commercial platform for custom AI models
mars 31, 2026
A Seattle startup founded by former Google and Microsoft engineers is betting that companies will increasingly want to build and own smaller, specialized AI models rather than relying on general-purpose alternatives from the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. Oumi, which launched its...
Tech Moves: C-suite exec leaves Microsoft for Alaska Airlines; Amazon leaders depart; HashiCorp CTO resigns
mars 31, 2026
Lindsay-Rae McIntyre. (Alaska Airlines Photo) Lindsay-Rae McIntyre is the new chief people officer at Seattle-based Alaska Airlines. She joins the airline from Microsoft, where she most recently served as chief diversity officer and corporate VP of Talent and Learning. “There is a vast,...
Milestone moon mission is getting a push from Pacific Northwest tech
mars 31, 2026
Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Brent Urke, program manager for L3Harris’ facility in Redmond, Wash., check out a model of the Orion spaceship that’s due to take four astronauts around the moon as early as this week. Cantwell is pointing to the model’s set of eight R-4D thrusters. An actual R-4D...
Chasing Starlink, Amazon Leo strikes satellite Wi-Fi deal for future Delta flights
mars 31, 2026
Amazon Leo and Delta Air Lines announced a deal Tuesday for satellite-powered in-flight Wi-Fi starting in 2028. (Amazon Photo) Amazon Leo has landed its highest-profile customer yet, reaching a deal with Delta Air Lines to provide satellite-powered Wi-Fi on 500 aircraft starting in 2028. The...
Mary Jo Foley: What the heck is going on with Microsoft lately?
mars 31, 2026
Satya Nadella in November 2016, in his honeymoon period as Microsoft CEO. (GeekWire File Photo) [Editor’s Note: We’re excited to welcome Mary Jo Foley as a GeekWire contributor. Mary Jo has been one of the sharpest watchers of Microsoft for many years, currently as Editor in Chief at Directions...
Snap acquires assets from Rec Room as social gaming platform announces shutdown
mars 31, 2026
Rec Room, the social gaming platform that reached more than 150 million players, is shutting down on June 1. (Rec Room Image) Snap Inc. confirmed late Monday that it has acquired select assets from Rec Room Inc., following the news that the Seattle-based company plans to shut down its longtime...
Portal Space’s ‘Mini-Nova’ payload goes into orbit to test technologies for maneuverable space vehicles
mars 31, 2026
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends Portal Space Systems’ “Mini-Nova” technology demonstration payload and more than 100 other payloads into orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. (SpaceX Photo) Bothell, Wash.-based Portal Space Systems has made its first foray into Earth orbit, in the...
Rec Room shutting down: Once valued at $3.5B, social gaming platform finds profits elusive
mars 31, 2026
Rec Room, the Seattle-based social gaming company once valued at $3.5 billion, is shutting down its platform on June 1, leaving the future of the company and its employees unclear. The company made the announcement Monday afternoon, saying it couldn’t find a path to profitability even...
Singapore’s PixVerse picks Seattle area for its first U.S. office amid $300M funding round
mars 31, 2026
AI video generator PixVerse is opening an office in Bellevue, Wash., and released its latest model, which it says “delivers complex scenes with coherent motion and consistent detail.” (PixVerse Image) PixVerse, the Singapore-based AI video generator, is establishing its first U.S. office in...
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