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Redfin lays off 201 employees as housing market continues to retrench
Redfin laid off 201 employees, or about 4% of its workforce, on Tuesday as it continues to trim expenses in response to the housing downturn and ongoing economic uncertainty.
Netflix turning a Seattle warehouse Upside Down with interactive ‘Stranger Things: The Experience’
Seattle is going to put on its best Hawkins, Ind., impersonation when “Stranger Things: The Experience” sets up in a warehouse in the SoDo neighborhood next month.
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Microsoft’s ‘Verified ID’ will confirm that LinkedIn members actually work where they say they do
Microsoft is expanding its digital identity technology to LinkedIn with a new tool that lets companies give their employees a way to prove to the outside world that they’re not fibbing about their place of work.
The latest 007 saga has a space billionaire, quantum computers — but no James Bond
Imagine a James Bond 007 novel with quantum computers, a space billionaire, a looming climate catastrophe — but no James Bond.
Carbon Robotics lands $30M to sell more weed-destroying machines powered by AI
Turns out that farmers like using lasers to kill weeds.
Judge tosses most of the claims in Amazon’s suit against former AWS real estate managers
A federal judge has dismissed most of the claims in a long-running lawsuit brought by Amazon against two of its former real estate managers and others whom the tech giant alleges defrauded the company of millions of dollars in development deals for Amazon Web Services data centers.
Microsoft Azure enlists generative AI to help Pentagon look for satellite imagery
Can a chatbot help Pentagon planners find the satellite data? Microsoft Azure Space recently showed the U.S. military how to do it.
Tech leaders size up what it’ll take to turn Pacific Northwest into a ‘Quantum Valley’
California's Silicon Valley may rule the roost for internet startups, but could the Pacific Northwest take the lead in quantum computing?
Amazon and SpaceX vets apply their AI and satellite skills to new carbon accounting startup
Corporations worldwide are committing to shrinking their carbon footprints.
Amazon’s new agenda: Tech giant buckles down and bets big under CEO Andy Jassy
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy’s annual letter to shareholders this week delivered a dual message: while the company might not be done streamlining its operations, it’s also not scaling back its ambitions for future growth.
Redfin’s latest layoffs come a few months after it said housing market had started to recover
After predicting that the sluggish housing market had started to rebound in January, Redfin this week blamed real estate market conditions as part of the reason for its latest round of layoffs.
This AI understands doctor’s notes: Truveta’s new model finds meaning in messy healthcare data
Healthcare data holds great potential to improve medicine, but mining it is not easy.
Tech Moves: Adaptive Biotechnologies COO departing; Sana adds leaders; and more
— Mark Adams is stepping down as chief operating officer of Adaptive Biotechnologies, the company said today in a regulatory filing.
Los Angeles venture firm Bonfire eyeing Seattle for B2B startup investments
Another out-of-town venture firm is looking at Seattle for new startup investments.
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