Inside an Amazon engineering outpost translating geographic position into growth

Inside an Amazon engineering outpost: Amazon employs about 200 people in its offices in Pittsburgh, where one focus is on machine translation technology. It’s part of a larger effort by the tech giant to expand its engineering operations in different parts of the country, beyond Seattle and other major tech hubs. One benefit for the company is the ability to draw on different pools of technical talent in its recruiting. GeekWire recently caught up with Laura Dickey, above, site leader for Amazon in Pittsburgh. Read more.

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University of Washington startup competition winners: OnDeck Fisheries AI, a team creating an automated software solution to monitor fishing activity, won the $25,000 grand prize. See the results.

Visualizing brains, plants and salamanders in 3D: A microscope developed in part by University of Washington researchers and licensed to UW spinout Alpenglow Biosciences enables scientists to peer into biological samples of all sizes and shapes in 3D and zoom into details quickly. Read more.

Tech Moves: Elizabeth Scallon departs Amazon for HP; Fauna hires a marketing exec; and more personnel changes.