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
A drought that strikes the western United States is projected to bring the Great Salt Lake to its lowest level in 170 years, affecting recreational boats, migratory birds, and arsenic dust (July 6).
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
Sales fell by $ 500 million. The workforce was reduced by three quarters. Operations in 14 countries were discontinued. Many state and local lobbying campaigns have ceased. Juul Labs, the once high profile e-cigarette company that became a public health villain for many people because of its role in the teenage steam wave, is acting … 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
CNN – If you’re like me and countless others, you may have trouble falling asleep at night. Dodow wants to change that with his sleep aid that focuses on calm breathing. The device is designed to help you relax and clear your mind as you prepare to fall asleep. It is shaped like a small … 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
British filmmaker Mark Cousins talks about the importance of the Cannes International Film Festival after a year of pandemic isolation and talks about presenting his documentary “The Story of Film: A New Generation” at the event. (5th July)
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