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Locana office in Seattle
Jan 25, 2022, 10:58 AM

From Critigen to Locana: Location intelligence company rebrands to reflect growing market

Thanks to a flood of satellite data and the rise of artificial intelligence tools, the market for location intelligence services… Read More

Honey mushrooms
Jan 18, 2022, 10:17 AM

Pacific Northwest forests provide the perfect breeding ground for a sci-fi tale about alien invasion

If you’re going to write a novel about an alien fungus threatening the planet, there are few places more suited… Read More

Stratolaunch's Roc in flight
Jan 16, 2022, 1:24 PM

Stratolaunch’s huge airplane aces its third flight test, building on Paul Allen’s legacy

The mammoth airplane that got its start with backing from the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen took to the air… Read More

Jan 14, 2022, 10:51 AM

Vir to extend COVID-19 treatment approach to HIV, malaria with $50M from Gates Foundation

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $40 million in equity investment and $10 million in grant funding to… Read More

Jan 13, 2022, 6:12 PM

Zeva puts its Zero ‘flying saucer’ eVTOL through first free-flying test in a pasture south of Seattle

After years of effort, Tacoma, Wash.-based Zeva has executed the first untethered, controlled flight test of its full-scale flying machine… Read More

Jan 12, 2022, 12:48 PM

Q&A with Fred Hutch’s new chief data officer on building a data ecosystem at an institutional scale

Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has recruited a new vice president and chief data officer: biostatistician and data science… Read More

Jan 12, 2022, 10:32 AM

All in the murderous family: Asian giant hornets found in Washington in 2021 came from 2020 nest

The Washington State Department of Agriculture generated worldwide attention when it successfully eradicated an Asian giant hornet nest in the… Read More

Jan 10, 2022, 4:43 PM

Electric aviation executive Roei Ganzarski steps down from leadership roles at MagniX and Eviation

Roei Ganzarski, the former Boeing manager who went on to give a boost to all-electric aviation, is leaving his executive… Read More

Jan 10, 2022, 10:52 AM

Tech Moves: Adaptive CFO to resign; Meta comms exec departs; AI vet joins Absci board; new Zymeworks CEO

— Chad Cohen will step down as CFO of Adaptive Biotechnologies on Feb. 15. Prior to joining Adaptive in 2015,… Read More

Dec 23, 2021, 9:16 AM

Biosensor startup Monod lands $6M and spins out of Univ. of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design

A new biotech startup has hatched from the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design with $6 million in funding… Read More

Dec 17, 2021, 3:29 PM

Maritime Blue wins $500,000 for cleaner transportation as finalist in tech challenge

Maritime Blue, a Washington state public-private coalition focusing on environmentally friendly technologies for the maritime industry, has been awarded $500,000… Read More

Dec 16, 2021, 11:00 AM

Univ. of Washington AI protein folding discovery wins ‘Breakthrough of the Year’ award from Science

Science magazine has revealed its breakthrough of the year: Artificial intelligence discoveries that predict how proteins fold, forged by researchers… Read More

Aristo AI2 illustration
Dec 8, 2021, 5:45 PM

Survey suggests 84% of Americans are illiterate about AI — so here’s a quiz to test your own AI IQ

Can artificial intelligence write its own programs? Is there AI in your TV remote control? Researchers at Seattle’s Allen Institute… Read More

Dec 7, 2021, 7:01 PM

Electric Sky wins DARPA grant to work on focused power beaming system for drones

A startup called Electric Sky says it’s begun building its first Whisper Beam transmitter for providing tightly focused wireless power… Read More

Dec 7, 2021, 4:00 AM

WellSaid and Five9 make bots sound more like humans when they take your call

Earlier this year, Seattle-based WellSaid Labs helped create an AI disk jockey with a voice that sounds like it’s coming… Read More

Krysta Svore at AAAS meeting
Dec 2, 2021, 6:49 PM

Microsoft and KPMG will try out quantum algorithms on real-world problems

Microsoft and KPMG are getting set to test Azure Quantum’s capabilities on the sorts of real-world problems that should give… Read More

Dec 1, 2021, 7:57 PM

How acoustics experts turned down the volume on the Space Needle’s makeover

Back in 2017, architects laid out their dream design for the Space Needle’s $100 million renovation project, featuring a sleek,… Read More

Nov 27, 2021, 7:19 AM

What we’re most thankful for in tech, science, business, and innovation

This was a week when many of us in the U.S. paused to reflect and give thanks. We’re keeping the… Read More

Nov 22, 2021, 6:00 AM

Taking the spotlight from Amazon, Walmart and DroneUp set up drone delivery hubs in Arkansas

Walmart is partnering with Virginia-based DroneUp on a network of drone delivery hubs, starting with a neighborhood market in Farmington,… Read More

Nov 16, 2021, 2:52 PM

Bill Gates’ TerraPower makes its pick for next-gen nuclear power plant in Wyoming

TerraPower, the nuclear power venture backed by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has chosen a soon-to-be-retired coal-fired power plant in Wyoming… Read More

Nov 11, 2021, 11:09 AM

University of Washington study: Deep learning reveals 3D models of protein machines

A new study peers into the structure of hundreds of protein complexes in cells that control everything from energy use… Read More

Nov 8, 2021, 2:38 PM

Bill Gates shares upbeat take on global climate talks; Washington’s Inslee pledges carbon cuts

As the global climate talks in Scotland enter their second week, Bill Gates on Monday shared his customarily upbeat assessment… Read More

Neal Stephenson
Nov 7, 2021, 8:30 AM

Neal Stephenson talks about his climate thriller — and why the metaverse didn’t match his vision

This whole metaverse thing hasn’t turned out exactly the way Seattle novelist Neal Stephenson thought it would when he came… Read More

Nov 6, 2021, 9:54 AM

The buzz about fusion energy: Expert explains industry’s ‘reinvigoration’ as tech attracts VC dollars

For decades, the promise of harnessing the power of fusion on a commercial scale to create vast amounts of carbon-free… Read More

Nov 4, 2021, 8:03 AM

Allen Institute launches new division to study brain circuits and behavior in mammals

Seattle’s Allen Institute has launched a new division called The Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics, which will explore how the… Read More

EchoGuard in field trial
Nov 2, 2021, 4:22 PM

Echodyne wins $20M contract for radar systems designed to watch U.S. borders

Kirkland, Wash.-based Echodyne says it’s won a $20 million, five-year contract from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and… Read More

Christof Koch on ferry
Oct 31, 2021, 9:00 AM

Neuroscientist recounts his long strange trip to plumb the depths of consciousness

Could magic mushrooms hold the key that unlocks the secrets of consciousness? Well, maybe not the only key. But Allen… Read More

Amazon and UCLA speakers
Oct 29, 2021, 2:17 PM

Amazon partners with UCLA on science hub focusing on AI and its social impact

Amazon and UCLA are launching a research hub that will draw upon industry and academic research to address the social… Read More

AWS quantum hardware
Oct 26, 2021, 6:00 AM

The box is open: AWS Center for Quantum Computing is definitely alive at Caltech

It’s been nearly two years since Amazon Web Services announced a quantum computing initiative that included the establishment of an… Read More

Martha Stewart and Nathan Myhrvold
Oct 21, 2021, 2:41 PM

Tech titan Nathan Myhrvold and lifestyle guru Martha Stewart dish about pizza

When it comes to pizza, is there really anything new under the sun-dried tomatoes? Well, how about an all-black pizza,… Read More

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