Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi: self-driving cars today are ‘student drivers,’ will ultimately be safer than humans

Dara Khosrowshahi speaks at the 2016 GeekWire Summit. (GeekWire Photo) Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said he is personally overseeing a “top-to-bottom” audit of the company’s safety procedures for self-driving cars, after a... Read more »

GeekWire Awards 2018: Cast your ballot for Hire of the Year, recognizing top talent and excellent execs

Remitly CFO Krish Srinivasan won Hire of the Year at the 2016 GeekWire Awards. (GeekWire Photo) The Oscars and the Grammys have passed, but awards season is far from over. We’re just... Read more »

What you need to know about ESPN’s new $5/month ESPN+ streaming service

Photos via ESPN. ESPN on Thursday debuted its new ESPN+ service, reflecting larger trends in the sports industry and marking the first big step into streaming for the Disney-owned sports media giant.... Read more »

Bots are responsible for two-thirds of links shared on Twitter, Pew Research finds

(GeekWire Photo Illustration / Twitter Images) The majority of links on Twitter are shared by bots, a term for accounts that use automation in place of human decision-making. That’s according to a... Read more »
Plenty of growth in store for cloud computing, according to Gartner, will hit $186B in 2018

Plenty of growth in store for cloud computing, according to Gartner, will hit $186B in 2018

(GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Most people no longer need to be convinced that cloud computing is the next big thing in enterprise technology, and there’s still plenty of room for all... Read more »
Tech Moves: Jenny Lam joins Oracle as design SVP; Starbucks engineering VP joins DefinedCrowd; and more

Tech Moves: Jenny Lam joins Oracle as design SVP; Starbucks engineering VP joins DefinedCrowd; and more

Jenny Lam and Hillel Cooperman, as pictured in a 2012 GeekWire charity calendar highlighting contributions to the tech community. (Red Box Pictures Photo for GeekWire.) Jenny Lam, a longtime Seattle tech design... Read more »
AI-powered horse monitoring: Magic AI raises $1.2M to expand equine technology

AI-powered horse monitoring: Magic AI raises $1.2M to expand equine technology

Magic AI CEO Alexa Anthony. (Photo via Magic AI) Horse monitoring might not be the first application of computer vision-based machine learning that comes to mind. But investors like what they see... Read more »
Apple’s HomePod struggling to gain a foothold in competitive smart speaker market, report says

Apple’s HomePod struggling to gain a foothold in competitive smart speaker market, report says

Excess inventory of Apple HomePods is piling up at Apple stores, as the smart speaker has struggled to make a dent in the competitive market led by Amazon’s Echo, according to a... Read more »

$100K Google grant to fund King County Library System’s first regional makerspace

One of the tools in Bellevue Library’s new makerspace. (KCLS photo) The King County Library System is opening its first makerspace this weekend. And it’s doing so with the help of a... Read more »