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Is Russell Wilson a robot? No, but video shows the Seattle Seahawks QB working out with one
Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson gets set to pass as an MVP Sprint dummy rushes toward him during an off-season workout. (Twitter...
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After lackluster launch, Amazon pulls ‘Crucible’ back into closed beta weeks after game’s release
(Crucible Image) Little more than a month after a much-hyped entry into big-budget video games, Amazon is pulling back “Crucible,” its new...
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Mixer co-founder on Microsoft pulling the plug, Twitch’s market power, and his startup journey
Matt Salsamendi, now 22, co-founded the streaming platform that came to be known as Mixer at age 16. (Photo Courtesy Matt Salsamendi) Matt...
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Amazon acquisition of robotaxi startup Zoox would add self-driving cars to its growing robot army
Zoox’s autonomous vehicle technology on a retrofitted Toyota Highlander in Las Vegas, one of two markets where it has been conducting road...
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Tethers Unlimited delivers software-defined radios to Millennium Space for satellite constellation
The SWIFT-SLX radio is a compact, affordable software-defined radio designed to provide S-band and L-band communications for small satellites....
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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 14, 2020
Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June...
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Boeing shifts its team leaders for space station and Starliner space programs
Boeing’s John Mulholland gives a briefing to NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine during a visit to the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing...
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Space Perspective reboots vision of flying passengers to stratosphere on a balloon
Space Perspective’s balloon-borne capsule, known as Spaceship Neptune, would provide a wide-angle view of the Florida coastline. (Space...
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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 7, 2020
Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 7,...
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GeekWire Podcast: Tech and the police; Amazon sues former VP; remembering Manny Vellon
Here’s what we’re talking about this week on the GeekWire Podcast: As protests over police violence continue across the country, Amazon, IBM...
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Five years after Pluto encounter, New Horizons probe does a far-out parallax experiment
Queen guitarist (and astrophysicist) Brian May, a member of the New Horizons science team, uses his patented OWL viewer to check out the stereo...
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Seattle startup Uplevel adds features to measure engineer productivity in remote work settings
A sample chart from UpLevel showing how engineers spend their time. (UpLevel Photo) Like many startups, Uplevel is adapting as the economic...
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Coronavirus projections converge amid concerns about a pandemic resurgence
This chart shows the daily COVID-19 death count in the U.S. as a dark red line, with the rolling average as a dotted line, up to the present....
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After sparking consternation at NASA, Trump campaign pulls ad featuring SpaceX launch
NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken say farewell to their families before heading to the launch pad for a SpaceX launch to the...
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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches eighth batch of 60 Starlink satellites and makes its ‘first fifth’ landing
Less than a week after sending two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station , SpaceX sent 60 more of its Starlink broadband...
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Infectious Disease Research Institute is working on a multiplier effect for coronavirus vaccine
Peter Hotez and Maria Elena Bottazzi work in their lab at Texas Children’s Hospital Center for Vaccine Development, where their research team...