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The OctoML team, from left to right: Jason Knight; Luis Ceze; Josh Fromm; Jared Roesch; Tianqi Chen; and Thierry Moreau. Not pictured: An Wang. (OctoML Photo) A group of all-star computer scientists is behind OctoML, a new University of Washington spinout that aims to help companies deploy machine learning models ...

The Online Secrets website. (Photo Via Screenshot) Amazon is accusing two California men of swindling aspiring third-party sellers with promises of learning the secrets of making a “passive income” on the tech giant’s e-commerce platform. In a new lawsuit, Amazon accuses Michael Gazzola, Matthew Behdjou and several related companies of ...

A new virtual reality system developed by Microsoft researchers lets users walk through the real world while fully immersed in a virtual one — using a mobile VR headset and an array of sensors to detect obstacles and adapt the digital scene to the surrounding environment as they go. Called ...

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 Oct. 13, 2019. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular ...

Real Talk, a speaker series from technical recruiting startup Karat, hosted an event Thursday in Seattle at Airbnb’s office. From left: Rafael Williams, Salehah Hassan, Anthony Skinner, Kenneth Massada and Rokeya Jones. (GeekWire Photo / James Thorne) For all of the talk around bringing more diversity to tech, black and ...

The downtown Seattle skyline. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) [Editor’s note: This guest post was co-written by Oren Etzioni and Jacob Colker of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) in Seattle.] We’ve reached a tipping point for our startup ecosystem. The Seattle area is home to several of the ...

(GeekWire Chart) Microsoft’s 2019 fiscal year was one of its busiest ever for acquisitions, led by its $7.5 billion GitHub deal. The tech giant spent a total of $9.1 billion on 20 acquisitions in its 2019 fiscal year, which ended June 30, according to its newly released annual report. GeekWire ...

(AWS Image via Instagram) An impressive lineup of musicians will be assembling in the desert in December for a two-day festival, but it’s not some sort of extension of Coachella — it’s Amazon. There are a plethora of music festivals going on every weekend throughout the country, but it’s certainly ...

The orange line above depicts what Amazon’s operating income would be without the Amazon Web Services cloud division. The blue bars show the company’s operating income as reported. Amazon has compiled a run of record profits over the last few years. There’s a perception that the highly profitable, market-leading Amazon ...

Severine Durand and Tamina Ramirez, researchers at the Allen Institute for Brain Science, review data collected from mice using the Neuropixels brain-probing system. (Allen Institute Photo) Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science is sharing 70 trillion bytes’ worth of data documenting electrical activity in mouse brains, collected by a new ...