Queen said Prince Philip's death has 'left a huge void in her life' CNN Meghan Markle will not attend Prince Philip's funeral, says Buckingham Palace Yahoo EntertainmentPrince ... Continue Reading »
Ash-covered St. Vincent braces for more volcanic eruptions NBC NewsThousands evacuate as volcano erupts on island of Saint Vincent ABC NewsSt. Vincent covered in ash as volcano ... Continue Reading »
Jordanian prince makes first public appearance since arrest The Associated PressJordan's King Abdullah and estranged Prince Hamza make first joint appearance since rift Yahoo NewsJordan's king and ... Continue Reading »
In Peru’s Presidential Election, the Most Popular Choice Is No One The New York TimesPolitically weary Peruvians to elect new president and Congress Al Jazeera English'People don't ... Continue Reading »
'Piles of bodies' seen in Myanmar as violence escalates: reports New York Post Myanmar coup: 'Dozens killed' in military crackdown in Bago BBC NewsMyanmar security forces with ... Continue Reading »
China admits its vaccines aren't very good POLITICOChina considering mixing different COVID-19 vaccines to improve low efficacy of its Vaccines | WION WIONEffectiveness of Chinese vaccines ‘not ... Continue Reading »
Myanmar’s Economy Is in a Free Fall, With Empty Factories, Closed Banks, Failing Internet The Wall Street JournalView Full Coverage on Google News Continue Reading »
Turkey's Erdogan calls for end to 'worrying' escalation between Russia and Ukraine | TheHill The HillUkrainian and Turkish presidents discuss rising tensions with Russia CBS NewsChina v ... Continue Reading »
IMF hikes growth forecast for the Middle East, says recovery will be 'divergent' CNBCThe Middle East's economic recovery is 'divergent,' IMF's Jihad Azour says CNBC International TVIMF ... Continue Reading »
21 Chinese coal miners trapped by underground flood Fox News21 Chinese miners trapped by underground flood in Xinjiang coal mine CNN China Mine Rescue: Race against time ... Continue Reading »
India tops 145k coronavirus cases in one day The HillIndia: Fastest nation to administer 100 vaccine jabs WIONVirus lockdowns around the world as vaccine efforts stumble Medical XpressSecond ... Continue Reading »
Where to buy COVID vaccination card holders and lanyards nj.comTaking this step after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine makes a difference, CDC says fox2now.comThe Latest: Lawmakers aim to ... Continue Reading »
Why Northern Ireland is experiencing the worst unrest it’s had in years Vox.comWave of violent protests in Northern Ireland brings back bitter memories of 'the troubles' Yahoo ... Continue Reading »
8 dead, dozens hurt as Indonesia quake shakes East Java The Associated PressAt Least Eight Dead in Indonesia Earthquake | The Weather Channel - Articles from ... Continue Reading »
Saudi Arabia says it executes 3 soldiers for 'high treason' Yahoo NewsSaudi Arabia executes 3 soldiers for ‘cooperating with enemy’ Al Jazeera EnglishSaudi Arabia and the United ... Continue Reading »
Outcry as police beat Joint List lawmaker during East Jerusalem protest The Times of IsraelFour families bear pain a year after deaths AP ArchiveIsraeli bus pelted with ... Continue Reading »
Amazon warehouse employees voted against unionization in Bessemer, Ala., in a victory for the company and a defeat for organized labor. But the process put ... Continue Reading »
Jeff Bezos surprised some Amazon critics and followers this week by throwing his weight behind a federal corporate tax hike to help pay for President ... Continue Reading »
— Rad Power Bikes co-founder Ty Collins has stepped down from the rapidly growing e-bike startup. Collins, who was chief marketing officer, is now in ... Continue Reading »
An investment firm with a short position in Porch Group, standing to benefit if its share price falls, released a report questioning the Seattle-based home ... Continue Reading »
New funding: Seattle-based startup Dendron has raised $2 million in seed funding for its open source note-taking tool that helps users manage any amount of ... Continue Reading »
Twitch hit another viewership record last month, buoyed by hot content like watching people sleep and a roleplaying mod for an eight-year-old sandbox game. It’s ... Continue Reading »
In a public defeat for organized labor, a sizable majority of Amazon warehouse employees voted against unionization in Bessemer, Ala. in an election overseen by ... Continue Reading »
A lot can change in the landscape during a year in which social isolation is the norm. At the University of Washington, the Hans Rosling ... Continue Reading »
ReadySub, a Seattle-based maker of a cloud-based scheduling platform for school districts, has been acquired by Tyler Technologies, a company that provides software and technology ... Continue Reading »
Amazon appears well on its way to thwarting an attempt to unionize workers at its Bessemer, Ala. plant with the pro-union vote falling well behind ... Continue Reading »
CoinFlip, a supplier of cryptocurrency ATM machines, is bringing the ease of bitcoin transactions to locations across Washington state. The Chicago-based company is among a ... Continue Reading »
New report: A market analysis for the first quarter of 2021 from the commercial real estate company Broderick Group expresses optimism that after a year ... Continue Reading »
New funding: Spot, a year-old company led by the founders of billion-dollar startup Outreach, has raised $1.7 million. Company background: GeekWire initially spotted Spot back in ... Continue Reading »
Twitch users may now face punitive measures by the service for actions that occurred offline, on other platforms, or before they started using Twitch at ... Continue Reading »
New funding: At a moment when vaccines are on everyone’s mind, a Seattle-based biotech company that has an unusual approach to vaccine production has raised ... Continue Reading »
Seattle-based travel giant Expedia Group named Patricia Menendez-Cambo, deputy general counsel of SoftBank Group and general counsel of the SoftBank Latin America Fund and SoftBank ... Continue Reading »
Google has announced plans to start bringing workers back to the company’s offices in the Puget Sound region, including on campuses in Seattle’s South Lake ... Continue Reading »
SpaceX is leasing a 124,907-square-foot building complex that’s under construction in Redmond Ridge Business Park, east of Seattle, according to the latest industrial real estate ... Continue Reading »
— Former Amazon Web Services and Microsoft executive Teresa Carlson will join Splunk in the new role of president and chief growth officer effective April ... Continue Reading »
The news: T-Mobile made a series of announcements Wednesday as part of its latest ‘Un-carrier’ initiative, including the official launch of its new home internet service, ... Continue Reading »
Amazon is probably not smiling this morning about an apparent protest movement started by a driver who is placing cardboard boxes upside down during deliveries ... Continue Reading »
As COVID-19 sent everyone retreating to social isolation and virtual gatherings, it proved particularly difficult for the performers and musicians who rely on live events ... Continue Reading »
New startup: Vijaye Raji, a tech vet who previously led Facebook’s 5,000-person engineering outpost in Seattle, is CEO and founder of Statsig, a Seattle-area company ... Continue Reading »
The unionization votes are now in the hands of the National Labor Relations Board and the two factions have completed their challenges to individual ballots ... Continue Reading »
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos today endorsed the Biden administration’s call for a higher corporate tax rate to help pay for the nation’s crumbling infrastructure. In ... Continue Reading »
At an international health conference this week, scientists with the University of Washington and Microsoft Research will virtually present new technology that allows medical providers ... Continue Reading »
Plenty of tech personalities and veterans have turned to the popular invite-only conversation app Clubhouse for insights related to the industry. Now a new startup ... Continue Reading »
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation is contributing $1 million to help underserved communities in King County receive their COVID-19 vaccinations. As the vaccination campaign ... Continue Reading »
Starbucks is launching a new effort to cut down on waste from its ubiquitous beverage cups with a limited trial in Seattle of a “Borrow ... Continue Reading »
Two of the wireless charging systems made by Seattle-based WiBotic have won safety approvals in Europe, marking what the startup’s CEO calls a major milestone. ... Continue Reading »
Porch Group, the Seattle-based home services software company, completed its $100 million acquisition of Homeowners of America Inc. on Tuesday morning, its biggest deal since ... Continue Reading »
ConductorOne announced a $5 million seed round led by Silicon Valley venture capital firm Accel. Fuel Capital, Fathom Capital and Active Capital also participated. Founded ... Continue Reading »
In 10 days, Washington state will open up COVID-19 vaccinations to anyone 16 and over who wants a shot. The question is, will you be ... Continue Reading »
Facebook is withholding certain job ads from women because of their gender, according to the latest audit of its ad service. The audit, conducted by ... Continue Reading »
It’s been a busy week for Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition company that uses 3 billion photos scraped from the web to power a ... Continue Reading »
As covid vaccines roll out in a handful of countries, the next question has become: How do people prove they’ve been inoculated? For months, this ... Continue Reading »
A pair of robot legs called Cassie has been taught to walk using reinforcement learning, the training technique that teaches AIs complex behavior via trial ... Continue Reading »
Cyberattacks continue to grow in prevalence and sophistication. With the ability to disrupt business operations, wipe out critical data, and cause reputational damage, they pose ... Continue Reading »
On March 20, Kyle Niemer and Mallory Raven-Ellen Backstrom had the wedding of their dreams: intimate (around 40 guests), in a spacious venue with a ... Continue Reading »
The news: The personal data of 533 million Facebook users in more than 106 countries was found to be freely available online last weekend. The data ... Continue Reading »
The disruptive shifts of 2020, including covid-19 shutdowns that led to millions of workers working remotely, forced organizations to radically rethink everything from worker well-being, ... Continue Reading »
Shortly after President Biden was inaugurated, the man who was being given command of his coronavirus response had a message about what America needed to ... Continue Reading »
The last votes for one of the most closely watched unionization drives in modern history came in on Monday, March 29, and results could be ... Continue Reading »
In recent years, Google has found increasingly abstract ways to confirm the existence of its upcoming phones. For example, last summer, the company accidentally published ... Continue Reading »
The stars aligned themselves just right this past week for a significant number of data breaches and security vulnerabilities to come to light. The massive ... Continue Reading »
One of the things that often goes hand-in-hand with the countless hacks and data leaks we've written about in the past, and which continues to ... Continue Reading »
The iOS 14.5 update should drop in the very near future, as Apple has tested the software extensively via several beta releases in the past ... Continue Reading »
Samsung isn’t the only company making foldable smartphones, but it’s certainly the leading player. Huawei, Motorola, and Xiaomi have launched or unveiled their own foldable ... Continue Reading »
Switching from one smartphone platform to another is not a decision that anyone takes lightly, which explains why the top vendors go to such lengths ... Continue Reading »
Apple is widely expected to launch two new AirPods this year, including successors to the regular models and the Pro. Usually referred to as AirPods ... Continue Reading »
The Apple Watch is the undisputed champion of the smartwatch ecosystem. It’s the smartwatch most people want to buy and the watch that many companies ... Continue Reading »
In the early days of the smartphone era, it was easy to argue that the iPhone was a superior device to anything Samsung was bringing ... Continue Reading »
Balaji S. Srinivasan:
Adding crypto to IndiaStack, a set of national APIs for payments and identity, could allow India to build an OSS stack for ... Continue Reading »
Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg:
Austin has been a top destination for tech workers leaving CA during Covid, and residents are concerned about how the new ... Continue Reading »
Wall Street Journal:
Erroneously unredacted court docs reveal Google ran a secret program called “Project Bernanke” that used past bid data to boost its win ... Continue Reading »
CyberNews:
Database containing 1.3M Clubhouse profiles was posted to a hacker forum; Clubhouse says it hasn't been breached, and the data is public info from ... Continue Reading »
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
Some SMB owners who advertise heavily online say Facebook is speaking the truth about how iOS privacy changes might ... Continue Reading »
Bloomberg:
Sources: ISPs in the US are seeing delays as long as 60 weeks, more than double previous waits, when ordering internet routers, due to ... Continue Reading »
Matt Wirz / Wall Street Journal:
Research: non-bank lenders have issued asset-backed bonds to help finance about $2B of loans to fast-growing but unprofitable software ... Continue Reading »
Saritha Rai / Bloomberg:
Sources: Byju's is raising about $1B from B Capital and others at a valuation of about $15B, with plans to raise ... Continue Reading »
Bloomberg:
Current and ex-employees say inattention to data protection at Verkada is emblematic of a “bro culture” that tolerated sexual harassment, misleading customers — Verkada ... Continue Reading »
Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
Sources: Sony's PlayStation organization has shifted its development focus to prioritize AAA games at the expense of projects from its niche ... Continue Reading »
Bloomberg:
Profile of Francis Suarez, the mayor of Miami, who tweets relentlessly about Miami's merits as a hub for the tech industry, but has a ... Continue Reading »
Sarah Manavis / New Statesman:
A look at Tattle Life, a gossip forum where users dox celebrities and influencers, dissect their personal lives, and target ... Continue Reading »
Zeyi Yang / Protocol:
Platforms like Douyin in China have become live online labs where grassroots nationalists and state media collaborate to harass critics at ... Continue Reading »
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
Researchers say Facebook has known for years about exploits similar to the one that used its “contact importer”, enabling the ... Continue Reading »