Rohit Prasad, Vice President and Senior Scientist, Amazon Alexa Team. When Amazon’s first Alexa-enabled smart speaker hit the market in 2014, it was a novelty: a voice-activated interface for processing …
Nayel Nassar and Jennifer Gates, eldest daughter of Bill and Melinda French Gates. (Instagram photo via @nayelnassar) Melinda French Gates is paying special attention to the Tokyo Olympics this week …
The suborbital space travelers Oliver Daemen, Wally Funk, Jeff Bezos and Mark Bezos stand in front of the camera in front of a Blue Origin New Shepard booster. (Jeff Bezos …
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Mark Nelson was named CEO of Tableau Software in March and leads the Seattle-based company as part of Salesforce. (Tableau and GeekWire photos) Seattle-based Tableau Software is no longer an …
The country is investing heavily in its own satellite constellations in near-earth orbit There was a wave of companies in recent years hoping to offer broadband internet from thousands of …
Merging physical and digital: A crowd at The International, Valve’s Dota 2 eSports tournament in Seattle in 2017, three years before the pandemic. (GeekWire file photo / Kevin Lisota) The …
New Shepard’s booster descends to Blue Origin’s landing pad. (Blue origin via YouTube) The Blue Origin space project by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos flew a mannequin into space today during …
Spent a day Driving a pre-production 2022 Mercedes Benz EQS gave an in-depth look at what the German automaker did with the billions of dollars it spent on electrification. The …
Annie Liu has always been quite at odds with her identity. At home she only spoke Chinese, and out in the world she switched to another language and changed her …