Bill Gates’ Road Ahead for 2024
The annual end-of-year letter from one of the world's foremost tech visionaries predicts a massive wave of AI innovation in 2024 among other prognostications.
"When...
Alaska Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines to Combine
Alaska Air Group, Inc. and Hawaiian Holdings, Inc. have announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Alaska Airlines will acquire...
HTC VIVE Announces Ultimate Tracker for All-in-One XR Headsets and PC VR Streaming
HTC VIVE is taking interactivity, utility, and expressiveness in XR experiences to the next level with the new VIVE Ultimate Tracker. Whether it's gaming,...
XP ESports League Announces Grand Opening in Redmond/Kirkland
Premier youth esports league in North America is set to open first-of-its-kind esports arena for Seattle’s Eastside.
– XP League, North America’s premier youth esports league,...
Amazon on Trial: Debunking the Myths and Recognizing the Value
Amazon has faced increasing scrutiny and allegations of antitrust violations in recent years. Critics argue that Amazon's dominance in the online marketplace stifles competition...
How does AWS make the NFL Smarter & Safer? Read the Playbook!
"The NFL is a tremendous content creator,” imparts Michelle McKenna, the National Football League’s Senior Vice President and CIO. “With over 188 million fans worldwide,...
Artifacts Found Under Space Needle: Paul Allen Bequeaths Other-Worldly Specimens
If the Space Needle were an inter-galactic beacon (and we’re not saying it’s not), signaling other-worldly visitors to excavate the treasures to be found...
Seattle Tech Week Spotlights Startup Inventors and Investors
For four days this week, July 31 to Aug 4, the prototype for a galvanizing community event will aim to bring together tech enthusiasts, investors, founders,...
Meta, Microsoft and Amazon team on Maps to crack Apple & Google Duopoly –...
A coalition formed by Meta, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and TomTom is releasing data that could enable companies to build maps that rival products...
Feeling the Bern: Sanders’ Senate HELP Committee Sparks Amazon Warehouse Probe
Sen. Bernie Sanders has lit a fuse that is igniting questions about workplace safety and working conditions at Amazon warehouses.
The independent Vermont senator and...
Seattle Amazon Workers Plan Walkout, May 31, over Layoffs, Return to Office Mandates, and...
As many as 1,000 workers at Amazon's Seattle headquarters plan to walk off the job on May 31 to protest layoffs, a return-to-office mandate,...
Seattle is a FIFA World Cup City
Seattle has been formally branded a FIFA men’s World Cup city. Unveiling the new 2026 logo atop the Space Needle were Governor Jay...
When the B-List is More Impressive than the A-List
Seattle is home to more billionaires, that's with a 'B', than any other city in the United States. A total of eight billionaires live...
Seattle Named 2nd Healthiest City in America
As if we needed another reason to be grateful to live in this precious corner of the Pacific Northwest, Seattle was just ranked 2nd...
At the Summit: New Convention Center Leads with Green Initiatives
Seattle is well known as the Emerald City, but not simply for the color that emanates from our natural surroundings. Seattle is renowned for...
Spinal Chat: Microsoft Invests Billions in OpenAI to raise its Azure, Bing and Office...
Months after its ChatGPT stunned Silicon Valley (but not in time to save its namesake bank), San Francisco-based Open AI's latest improvement in the generative AI...
From Bits to Perfect Bites, Washington State May Become the Next Destination for Dental Tourism
When the Sonicare toothbrush was in canine trials at the University of Washington School of Dentistry, even the most diligent of chewers could have imagined the...
Seattle Public Schools sues TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Snap, and Instagram over Mental Health Crisis
We Examine the Evidence that Social Media Platforms Are Harming Our Kids
Last Friday, while lawmakers in the "other" Washington were jockeying to elect a Speaker of...
22 More Seattle Podcasts of Note
Perk up your ears, Seattleites. We've ranked the best 22 Seattle podcasts by traffic, social media followers, domain authority & freshness. Each are...
2023 New Year’s Resolutions for Seattle CIOs
Digital leaders can meet the speed of innovation in 2023 by acting now on these four emerging technologies.
From security to quantum, AI and edge...
EXODUS: Mass Layoffs Arrive, INVITE: Work for Seattle24x7
In a stunning reversal of traditional holiday hiring patterns and just days ahead of one of Amazon’s biggest shopping days of the year on Black Friday,...
Expedia’s Top Air Travel Hacks for the 2023 Holidays
Report reveals cheapest days to book and travel and how to avoid flight delays
New Price Tracking and Predictions feature unlocks savings for Expedia members
Expedia® has...
Meta’s VR Quest: The Reformation of Facebook VR Is Tied to Microsoft Teams
In the pre-Meta(-zoic) era, the word TEAM was an acronym for “Together Everyone Achieves More.” After the Meta 2022 Connect keynote in October, the word TEAM has evolved to become "The...
AI Comes to MOHAI
Is there any technology today that is more far-reaching and yet more mystifying than Artificial Intelligence? AI is changing the very way we approach...
Is a More Perfect Union a More Perfect Amazon.com?
As a company forged under the branding iron of reinvention, Amazon has always hoped to create the prototype of a different kind of company...
Amazon Pulls the Plug on Amazon Care: Big Tech’s Fast, Frugal Focus a Failed Formulary
Amazon is shutting down its fast, frugal, fledgling health care service, Amazon Care, at the end of this year. It was the fit that was...
Stranger Things? Microsoft-Netflix Will Deliver Monstrous Streaming Ad Offering
Microsoft and Netflix have announced they are teaming up to launch the first ever ad-supported subscription plan for the streaming giant. It’s the biggest entertainment deal...
Saving Green on Amazon Prime Day — It’s a Cinch With Finch.
Amazon shopping has created a mind-boggling dimension of choice for armchair shoppers. The conspicuous consumer knows that installing the right digital apps and extensions can help generate a more informed...
Microsoft Announces Framework for Building AI Systems Responsibly
Microsoft has released a framework to guide how it builds AI systems. Titled the Microsoft Responsible AI Standard, the set of policies represents an important milestone on the...
Everything Announced at SMX Advanced 2022 for Leading Edge SEO & SEM
Seattle has been home to the annual Search Marketing Expo (SMX) Advanced symposium since 2007. Among the many industry milestones that have been lauded inside the Bell Harbor Convention Center on the...
Everything Apple Announced at WWDC 2022
Apple’s annual Worldwide Developer’s Conference was a hybrid event for 2022, hosting a flock of developers and members of the media at the Apple...
Seattle is “Most Fun City” to Visit in 2022
Fun-loving Americans can forget New York, San Francisco, or Los Angeles after experts revealed the most fun city in America to visit. It's Seattle,...
Everything Google Announced at Google I/O
Hardware grabbed much of the attention this week at Google I/O, the company’s annual developers’ conference, thanks to a number of highly anticipated product launches....
Great Scott! MacKenzie is the Brightest in Seattle’s Stellar Lineup of Philanthropic Luminaries
Reporting from last week's American Philanthropic conference in Orlando, Puck reporter Theodore Schleifer outlined the geo-political shift that is occurring in the donor class from the right side of...
Doubling Down on the Best Keyboards of 2022
Like dueling pianos in a concert hall, striking the keys of the top computer keyboards of 2022 can bring forth a virtuoso performance for writers, coders and gamers...
Microsoft Enters Ground War to Counter Russian Cyberattacks, Seattle Tech Stepping Up
Last Wednesday, a few hours before Russian tanks began rolling into Ukraine, alarms went off inside Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence Center, just north of Seattle, warning of a...
Seattle’s NFT Museum: Can It Live on the Same Block as Climate Pledge Arena?
When Henry Ford ushered in the world of mass production at the turn of the century, making the automobile available to the middle and working classes, he...
Washington STEM announces new CEO
Washington STEM announced Milton Lang as the education nonprofit’s new CEO. He has a doctorate in higher education administration from Washington State University and was most recently...
Washington Broadband Office announces $145M for Internet access in underserved communities
The Washington State Broadband Office announced $145 million in funding to connect 14 underserved areas to the internet.
The funding covers 13 projects aimed to bring these...
