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Kenneth Ma, left, a member of the University of Washington team behind the PrezVR virtual reality presentation app, gives a demo to Lawrence Tan, right, a fellow computer science student attending the recent AR/VR Capstone Demo Day on the UW campus. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop)The tech world is...
The cherry blossoms in bloom on the Quad at the University of Washington in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser)The beloved cherry blossoms at the University of Washington in Seattle haven’t popped into full splendor yet, but a new website aimed at promoting the attraction is up and...
Donations by the Ballmer Group are aimed at increasing the number of people entering early childhood education and bolstering the number of people of color teaching in the field. (Photo via UW / Cultivate Learning)The Ballmer Group is giving a $43 million boost to early childhood education in...
An artist’s rendering of W27, a new building planned for the University of Washington campus in Seattle. (Wexford Science + Technology Image)The University of Washington will move ahead with a building envisioned as a gateway into a reimagined part of its Seattle campus after prevailing in a...
An autonomous Polaris vehicle equipped with sensors and computers developed by researchers at the University of Washington. (Photo courtesy of the University of Washington RACER team)A University of Washington professor and expert in the field of machine learning and robotics is leading a new...
From left, Meher Antia, director of grant programs at Washington Research Foundation, and the Endozene team, first place winners at the Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge: Annabelle Huang, Rachel Shi, Jack Kussick, Aaron Ayenew and Aya Safira. (UW Photo / Matt Hagen)University of Washington...
Wildfires in 2018 created hazy sunsets over Washington’s Puget Sound. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Geoengineering is the in-case-of-emergency-break-glass response to climate change. It means taking action to alter the atmosphere to reflect the sun’s radiation and temporarily slow...
UW Medical Data Science Symposium keynote speaker Atul Butte, director of the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute at the University of California, San Francisco. (GeekWire Photo / Charlotte Schubert)There’s a new institute brewing at the University of Washington at the intersection of...
An image from NASA’s Galileo orbiter shows Europa’s icy surface, crisscrossed by reddish-brown streaks of radiation-darkened salt. (Credit: NASA / JPL / Ted Stryk)A prime target in the search for extraterrestrial life is Europa, a moon of Jupiter that’s covered with a sheet of salty ice. But...
The IonQ Forte quantum system is roughly the same size as a standard data center cabinet. (IonQ Photo)Do full-fledged quantum computers already exist, or will it be a decade before they come into being? Will they have to be the size of a football field? A data center cabinet? A microwave...
A student in the University of Washington’s Suzzallo Library in Seattle. (UW Photo)The sudden rise of ChatGPT — the AI-powered chatbot released by OpenAI last fall — has educators across the country rethinking how they teach and assess student work. The University of Washington is among...
Siddhartha “Sidd” Srinivasa. (GeekWire File Photo) — Siddhartha Srinivasa, a leading robotics expert and professor at the University of Washington, has left his position as director of Robotics AI at Amazon to join Cruise, General Motors’ autonomous-vehicle subsidiary. In a post on...
A photo taken with a lightweight consumer drone, one of the technologies GeekWire’s Todd Bishop was thankful for this year as we took a step back on the GeekWire Podcast to take stock of the positive things in technology, business, and science. Listen here. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop)Across...
An artist’s rendering of W27, a new building planned for the University of Washington’s west campus in Seattle. (Wexford Science + Technology Image)Newly released renderings show a building planned for the west campus of the University of Washington in Seattle that will be home to research...
University of Washington’s Paccar Hall, home to the Foster School of Business. (UW Photo)Some 3,900 companies worldwide have made pledges to cut their carbon emissions. But many, or perhaps most, lack the skilled workers needed to reach those goals. “I commonly find a level of anxiety now...
Univ. of Washington graduate and Marshall scholarship recipient Daniel Chen. (Univ. of Washington Photo)Daniel Chen is only 19, but he’s already a freshly minted University of Washington graduate and a recipient of a prestigious Marshall Scholarship, announced Monday. The scholarship...
A brochure advertising Seattle’s Blue Ridge neighborhood included language limiting homeownership and rentals to people of the white or Caucasian race. (Photo courtesy of the UW’s Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project)If you live in a home built before the 1950s, there’s a chance...
A poster for the documentary film “Wildcat,” coming to theaters and Amazon Prime Video. (Amazon Image)A documentary film about wildlife conservation and the redemptive power of nature, shot primarily in the Amazonian rainforest of Peru, has a connection to another Amazon — in Seattle. The...
(Element5 Digital Photo / Unsplash)The U.S. midterm elections are Tuesday and academic researchers are expecting another wave of misinformation and rumors related to voter fraud. The explosion of unsupported allegations of election fraud during the 2020 presidential election set the stage for...
(University of Washington Photo)University of Washington leaders filed a motion Monday to dismiss a lawsuit brought by an instructor who created his own land acknowledgment statement on the syllabi of courses he taught. The Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering suggests...
(University of Washington Photo / Mark Stone)The University of Washington is ranked No. 24 in a new list of the top 100 universities in the world based on the number of alumni entrepreneurs who came out of the schools and founded venture capital-backed companies. The university rankings from...
Katie Sadler, manager of the UW Biology Greenhouse, in one of the collection rooms of the facility on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser)Exposure to plants and nature is said to make humans calmer and more productive, and just feel better overall. That...
A post on the dubseatv Facebook page about a suspected serial killer in the Seattle area has been labeled as false information. (Facebook screen grab)Quick-spreading claims on social media over the weekend about a suspected serial killer in the Seattle area have been refuted by law enforcement...
Yejin Choi. (Photo courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)Yejin Choi, a University of Washington computer science professor and senior research manager at Seattle’s Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), won a $800,000 “genius grant” given annually by the...
Lumen Field in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser)The football game between the Seattle Seahawks and Atlanta Falcons was stopped and delayed on Sunday when a drone was reportedly spotted near or over Lumen Field. It was the second time this weekend that play was interrupted by a drone...
From left: Chief Revenue Officer Jake Stone; CTO Jim Castillo; Chief Business Officer Jonathan Macey; and CEO and co-founder Thomas Lapham. (Cheq Photo)If this Seattle startup gets its way, the peanut-throwing vendors at sports games will have to find new jobs. Cheq, which just raised $8...
UW president Ana Mari Cauce (third from right) joins UW engineering students and others to break ground on the UW’s new interdisciplinary engineering building. (GeekWire Photo / Charlotte Schubert)The University of Washington broke ground Thursday on its new 70,000 square-foot Interdisciplinary...
The famed cherry blossoms on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. (GeekWire File Photo / Kurt Schlosser)The University of Washington on Thursday announced that it will divest its multi-billion dollar endowment from fossil fuel companies by 2027. The university pledged that its overall...
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. Global app spending reached $65 billion in the first half of 2022, up only slightly from the $64.4 billion during the same period in 2021, as...
Somalytics, a University of Washington spinout developing tech to sense human gestures, body functions and eye movement, raised $1.9 million. The seed round was led by IP Group, with participation from Washington Research Foundation. UW associate professor of mechanical engineering Jae-Hyun...
