Boone Langston, one of LEGO Masters’ bearded builders, attends the GeekWire podcast from his home in the Portland, Oregon area. Boone Langston is an accomplished LEGO builder from the Portland, Oregon area who shares his creations with the world BooneBuilds.com and on his Boone is building YouTube Channel. He also runs a virtual one Boones … Read more
Whether you’re part of the accounting department or just an employee of an organization, managing expenses can be a time-consuming and error-prone, but also a fairly mundane part of your job. Today, a startup called Pleo – which has built a platform that can help some of this work more smoothly, via a vertically integrated … Read more
The pandemic recovery might not be all positive, at least not for the environment. Reuters reports that the International Energy Agency has warned that a resurgence in gas demand after the pandemic could jeopardize the goal of global net-zero emissions by 2050. A forecast increase in gas consumption of 3.6 percent for 2021 could not … Read more
Jeff Bezos unveils a model of Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lunar lander in 2019 (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) Jeff Bezos may step back from his CEO role at Amazon, but now he needs to feel the heat at Blue Origin, the privately held space company he founded in 2000. The next 31 days could … Read more
Min Wanli had a career path that was highly sought after by those pursuing a career in computer science. As a child prodigy, Min was accepted into a top research university in China at the age of 14. Degrees in physics and statistics from the University of Chicago before spending nearly a decade at IBM … Read more
CRISPR gene editing is no longer limited to Earth. Astronaut Christina Koch and scientist successfully demonstrated CRISPR-Cas9 in space for the first time and used it as part of a new technique to damage DNA and study how it is repaired in microgravity. “Technical and safety concerns” have prevented earlier studies like this one, the … Read more
Check out the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 27, 2021. Sign up to receive these updates in your inbox every Sunday by subscribing to our weekly GeekWire email newsletter. The most popular stories on GeekWire Amazon adds two … Read more
China has ordered app store operators to remove Didi’s app from their stores, at the latest as tensions between the country’s largest ride-hailing giant and local regulators escalate. The app has disappeared from several stores, including Apple’s App Store in China, TechCrunch can confirm. The country’s cyberspace administration, which revealed the order on Sunday, said … Read more
The FaZe Clan is teetering with drama once again, and this time the damage could last longer. Decrypt notes that FaZe has fined four players for allegedly participating in a pump-and-dump scheme with the Save the Kids cryptocurrency project. The eSports team has suspended Jarvis (pictured), Nikan and Teeqo and permanently removed Kay from the … Read more
Emily Levesque an Bord von NASAs SOFIA, dem Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, das im Grunde ein fliegendes Teleskopflugzeug ist, das aus einem Infrarotteleskop besteht, das in einer speziell modifizierten Boeing 747 eingebaut ist. Das Flugzeug soll in die Stratosphäre fliegen und dann seine Hecktür öffnen and während des Fluges, damit das Teleskop in großen … Read more