Sally Jewell. (The Nature Conservancy Photo) — Former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell has been appointed the Edward V. Fritzky endowed chair in leadership at the University of…
Continue readingA new deep-sea exploration technology that could one day search for life in subsurface oceans on the moons of Jupiter and Saturn will be put to test during a two-week…
Continue readingHealionics’ STARgraft vascular graft acts as an artificial blood vessel for dialysis patients. (Healionics Photo) New funding: Seattle-based medical technology company Healionics raised a $4.7 million round led by Keiretsu Capital…
Continue readingWould you like to read a U.S. senator’s book about antitrust law? No? How about two U.S. senators’ books about antitrust law? Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, and Senator…
Continue readingSeattle Storm star Sue Bird. (File Photo via Neil Enns / Seattle Storm) Add the WNBA to the list of professional sports leagues that Amazon wants to help showcase via…
Continue readingWhat just happened? The ongoing semiconductor shortage has prompted a bevy of companies that make and use chips to form a new lobbying group tasked with pressing the government for…
Continue readingNEW DELHI: New business models and technological evolutions such as the satellite-based communications or SatCom may pose national security challenges, and there is a need for a regular scrutiny and…
Continue readingDirector Steven Soderbergh during an event in Seattle in 2017. (FilmMagic Photo for HBO) Oscar-winning director Steven Soderbergh is returning to Seattle to shoot scenes for a thriller called “KIMI,”…
Continue readingUrbanist, writer and professor Richard Florida. (Photo: Daria Malysheva) Reports of the death of coastal cities are greatly overblown. At least that’s the view of renowned urbanist and author Richard…
Continue readingJoin Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase has appointed James Reid as chief information officer for a new unit…
Continue readingTanium CFO Marc Levine. (Tanium Photo) — Cybersecurity giant Tanium appointed Marc Levine as its new CFO, effective May 17. He was most recently CFO at RSA Security. Levine previously…
Continue reading23,606. That’s the number of people who have died in drunk driving accidents during the time that it took for me to get this article published. That’s someone’s mother, father,…
Continue readingCarbon Robotics CEO Paul Mikesell in a farm field with his company’s autonomous weeder. The robot uses laser light to zap as many as 100,000 weeds an hour. (Carbon Robotics…
Continue readingWhat just happened? Many musicians take issue with streaming services, usually over royalty payments, but a group of artists is protesting against something more customer-focused. The target of their anger…
Continue readingChoose your answer and the correct choice will be revealed. Typically used to describe a product that has been announced but never launched, “vaporware” was reportedly coined by a Microsoft…
Continue readingJoin GamesBeat Summit 2021, happening today! Watch live here! Epic Games started its antitrust trial against Apple today with its argument about why Apple’s control of its App Store for…
Continue readingThe public spat between Facebook and Australia earlier this year presages a new effort to regulate big tech companies – but could that threaten the whole future of the web?…
Continue readingOn the outside, Apple’s new AirTag looks like a ho-hum product that we have all seen before. It’s a disc-shaped tracking gadget that can be attached to items like house…
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