Bill Gates speaks about the onset of COVID-19 in the early days of the global outbreak at the American Association for Advancement of Science meeting (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop). Bill Gates resigned from Microsoft’s board of directors after allegations surfaced that the company’s co-founder had an inappropriate, long-term sexual relationship with an employee, the … Read more
Hello friends, and welcome back to the week in retrospect! Last week I wrote about Facebook’s never-ending Trump problem. This week, I’m checking out Elon Musk’s wild week of whipping crypto markets. If you’re reading this on the TechCrunch website, it can be found in your inbox via Newsletter pageand follow my tweets @ Lucasmtny. … Read more
Clubhouse’s young Android app will soon be much easier to find. TechCrunch reports that Clubhouse will make the Android version of its drop-in voice chat app available worldwide within a week. It will reach Brazil, Japan and Russia on May 18, and India and Nigeria will have their first look at it three days later. … Read more
PATH coordinated the installation of pressure swing adsorption systems for oxygen generation in medical facilities in India with suppliers. (Courtesy photo of PATH) The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has partnered with two Chicago financial groups to pour $ 5.5 million into Seattle-based nonprofit PATH’s efforts to deliver more oxygen to COVID-19 patients in India. … Read more
I feel hungover. No, not in the traditional sense, but in the dizzying way you feel when half of your world is celebrating double vaccinations and no masks and the other half mourned all over the world for death and not a piece of light in the end The tunnel. The privilege of watching this … Read more
Endwalker, the fourth expansion pack for Final Fantasy XIV Online, will be released on November 23rd. Square Enix announced its release date at the 2021 Digital Fan Festival, where director Naoki Yoshida also announced that the expansion is now available for pre-order. The gaming giant first announced that Endwalker is coming out this fall during … Read more
Charna Parkey is the data science director of the Seattle startup Kaskada. (Courtesy photo by Charna Parkey) Growing up, Charna Parkey was always the “technical person” in her house. In high school, she got IT certifications, and by the time she got to college, she took as many engineering courses as possible. On the recommendation … Read more
Williesha Morris Contributor Williesha Morris has been a journalist and freelancer for over a decade. When she’s not writing, she’s reading, playing video games, or chatting about the Marvel Cinematic Universe. In 2011 a product Developer named Fred Davison read an article about the inventor Ken Yankelevitz and his QuadControl video game controller for quadriplegics. … Read more
Stoke Space Technologies’ second stage motor injector will be subjected to a test fire at the company’s component test facility. (Stoke photo) Two Washington state companies have received up to $ 750,000 each in NASA grants to take space-related technologies they are already working on to the next level of development. The awards for Stoke … Read more
Before Twilio had a market cap approaching $56 billion and more than 200,000 customers, the cloud-communications platform developed a secret sauce to fuel its growth: a developer-focused model that dispensed with traditional marketing rules. Software companies that sell directly to end users share a simple framework for managing growth that leverages discoverability, desirability and do-ability … Read more