E Ink's 'Wizard of Oz' moment: Behind the digital notepad's colorful transition

The market for E Ink tablets reached a pivotal moment this week with reMarkable's unveiling of its new Paper Pro — now with color E Ink, not just black-and-white. Now the big question is whether Amazon will join the trend with a color Kindle e-reader or Kindle Scribe. On a new episode of the GeekWire Podcast, we talk about the technology enabling this transition with Timothy O’Malley, associate vice president of U.S. operations at E Ink Holdings.

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"Starliner is back on Earth": It wasn't perfect, but Boeing's Starliner space capsule successfully made an autonomous touchdown back on Earth while leaving its crew behind on the International Space Station. Read more.

Bellevue, Wash.-based startup Center laid off eight workers, or about 4% of its workforce. Read more.

No phones: Schools across the country are implementing new smartphone bans. We went inside a Seattle middle school to see its ban in action and hear from students, teachers, and administrators. Read more. 

📆 Upcoming events: Tech and startup community gatherings on our radar next week in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest.

• Sept. 7-8: Rose City Comic Con

• Sept. 10: 2024 Annual Conference

• Sept. 11: Java Developer Day

• Sept. 12: The Adding Machine: A Cyborg Mortality Play

Check out the GeekWire Calendar for more.

Hot Links:

• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Amazon AI leader Rohit Prasad are among TIME’s 100 most influential people in AI. (TIME)

• Washington Research Foundation gave $1 million to support Allen Institute for Brain Science researchers developing a new gene therapy for Dravet syndrome. (Allen Institute)