Some of the games available on Xbox Game Pass as seen on Google Chrome on June 28th. (Microsoft screenshot) Microsoft announced on Monday that its Xbox Cloud gaming service, formerly known as Project xCloud, has officially expanded to the web browser world. Starting today, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers with Windows 10 PCs or iOS … Read more
The math is simple: Big research universities produce great startups. Pittsburgh certainly has little shortage of the former, with two world-class research schools – Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh – in the city. The latter has posed a challenge to Pittsburgh in the past as local startups often headed to the greener … Read more
Thanks to fast charging models with a range of up to 300 kilometers in the city, electric motorcycles now offer a practical alternative to their counterparts with combustion engines. But a little-known British company wants to make future electric motorcycles much faster. To get there, White Motorcycle Concepts built a unique prototype that is claimed … 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 20, 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 Just like Dungeons … Read more
In the past few years we’ve seen a growing trend for YouTubers to adopt digital and social media, not just as a supplement to your media presence, but also as a cornerstone of your personal brand. The pandemic has certainly accelerated trends in the creator economy. Many well-known artists and personalities had to postpone concerts … Read more
Operating system developers offer code signing to help you avoid hostile software, but Microsoft may have inadvertently broken the trust that signing is designed to create. According to BleepingComputer, Microsoft has confirmed that it has signed Netfilter, a third-party driver for Windows that contains rootkit malware that has been circulating in the gaming community. It … Read more
Another day, another deal. Keeping up with the tide of acquisitions, IPOs, SPACs, and venture capital these days is no easy task. In fact, the IPO dollar volume for 2021 has already reached $ 171 billion, surpassing the record sums of last year. The same goes for mergers and acquisitions, with record levels of transaction … Read more
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020. Consumers last year also spent 3.5 trillion minutes using apps on Android devices … Read more
CRISPR gene editing already promises to fight diseases that were once considered invulnerable, but previously the tools had to be injected directly into the affected cells. This is not very practical for some conditions. However, there was just a breakthrough. NPR reports that researchers have released results showing that you can inject CRISPR-Cas9 into the … Read more
Shirish Nadkarni. Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from a new book written by Shirish Nadkarni, a Seattle tech veteran who co-founded Livemocha (acquired by RosettaStone) and TeamOn (acquired by BlackBerry). You think you have come up with a brilliant idea for your startup. You have spoken to your friends and colleagues, and they … Read more