Author: Benjamin Clarke
Tye Brady, chief technologist for Amazon Robotics, introduces “Venture Eluna,” an AI mannequin that assists operations groups, throughout Amazon’s Delivering the Future occasion in Milpitas, Calif. (GeekWire Photograph / Todd Bishop) SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon confirmed off its newest robotics and AI programs this week, presenting a imaginative and prescient of automation that it says will make warehouse and supply work safer and smarter. However the e-commerce big and a number of the media at its Delivering the Future occasion have been on totally different planets when it got here to huge questions on robots, jobs, and the way forward…
Vacationers at Sea-Tac Airport attempt to discover their baggage following a significant outage at Alaska Airways that started Thursday afternoon. (GeekWire Photograph / Todd Bishop) Alaska Airways remains to be working to revive operations following a significant outage that compelled the Seattle-based firm to cancel greater than 360 flights on Alaska and its subsidiary Horizon Air. The outage started Thursday round 3:30 p.m. PT. Alaska grounded planes throughout the U.S. because it addressed what it described as a “important IT outage.” In an announcement, Alaska stated a “failure occurred at our main information middle.” The outage was not a cybersecurity…
Tim Chen. (Photograph courtesy of Chen) When Tim Chen tried to interrupt into enterprise capital six years in the past, a number of companies in Seattle turned him down. “No person wished to rent me,” he recalled in an interview with GeekWire. “I used to be too technical, they stated. Too nerdy.” Chen, a College of Washington graduate and infrastructure engineer who had simply bought a startup, determined to launch his personal agency. Six years later, Chen’s traders — often known as restricted companions, or LPs — line as much as give him cash earlier than he even opens a…
Key Takeaways There may be widespread use of well being care apps or web sites to handle people’ well being care with about three in 4 adults within the U.S. saying they’ve used a well being care app or web site prior to now 12 months, together with majorities of adults no matter revenue, training, race and ethnicity, and the place they reside. The most typical use of those well being care apps contains getting take a look at and lab outcomes, making appointments, and managing prescriptions or medicines. This contains well being care apps managed by a well being…
An Alaska Airways airplane at Seattle-Tacoma Worldwide Airport. (GeekWire File Picture / Kurt Schlosser) Alaska Airways grounded flights within the U.S. Thursday after what it described as an “IT outage affecting operations.” We’ve reached out to Alaska for more information. Prospects additionally reported points with the corporate’s app and web site. It’s Alaska’s second outage in three months. The Seattle-based airline grounded flights after an outage in July that lasted about three hours. Alaska Airways is experiencing an IT outage affecting operations. A short lived floor cease is in place. We apologize for the inconvenience. For those who're scheduled to…
(Xbox Picture) For the final two years, Microsoft’s online game division has been working to satisfy monetary targets which are effectively in extra of the everyday business commonplace, which has led to waves of layoffs, canceled tasks, and a basic notion that the corporate is scrambling. These allegations come from a new report from Bloomberg journalists Jason Schreier and Dina Bass, who reported that Xbox has been instructed it’s anticipated to work towards a revenue margin of 30% throughout the board. So far as could be instructed from exterior Microsoft, that is considerably above Xbox’s revenue baseline. A typical quarterly…
Cory Doctorow, creator of “Enshittification: Why Every thing Immediately Received Worse and What to Do About It,” makes a degree at a presentation on the Seattle Central Library whereas moderator Whitney Beltrán and commentator Ed Zitron look on. (GeekWire Photograph / Alan Boyle) How will the businesses which have invested tens of billions of {dollars} within the infrastructure for synthetic intelligence fare when the enshittification hits the fan? That query got here in for lots of consideration — and snark — when tech pundits Cory Doctorow and Ed Zitron sat down in Seattle to muse about what’s occurring on the…
(GeekWire Picture / Todd Bishop) An in depth explanation of this week’s Amazon Internet Providers outage, launched Thursday morning, confirms that it wasn’t a {hardware} glitch or an outdoor assault however a fancy, cascading failure triggered by a uncommon software program bug in one of many firm’s most crucial methods. The corporate stated a “defective automation” in its inner methods — two unbiased applications that started racing one another to replace data — erased key community entries for its DynamoDB database service, triggering a domino impact that briefly broke many different AWS instruments. AWS stated it has turned off the…
Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell addresses the gang at an Amazon event in 2024. (GeekWire File Photograph / Taylor Soper) Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has a message for his metropolis’s tech giants: it’s time to reinvest locally. Harrell, talking at an event Wednesday hosted by the Fremont Chamber of Commerce, stated Seattle’s massive corporations have a “ethical obligation to present again.” The mayor particularly known as out Microsoft and Amazon, citing their annual earnings. “Microsoft … they made $88 billion final 12 months … they’ve an obligation to present again to society, as does Amazon,” he stated. Harrell additionally described Seattle…
Susan Kaech. (Allen Institute Photograph) Award-winning immunologist Susan Kaech is the brand new government vp of the Allen Institute’s Immunology Moonshot, an initiative that goals to know the immune system’s function in human well being and illness. Kaech at present leads the NOMIS Heart for Immunobiology and Microbial Pathogenesis on the Salk Institute for Organic Research and can be a part of the Allen Institute in January. “The appointment comes at a vital time in bioscience when the immune system is considered the cornerstone of all ailments and understanding its foundational rules is important to unlocking new remedies and therapies,”…