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Values and Vision: Seattle’s Johnston Architects was, and still is, ahead of its time
Back when Ray and Mary Johnston launched their eponymous architecture firm, floppy disks were valuable office storage tools and 3D software – today common in architectural design – was still in beta testing. The office environment has dramatically changed in those 30 years. Ray and Mary have not. They founded their company based on modern-day…
IWG Flexible Workspaces Foster Transformational Change | Sponsored
IWG is the world’s largest provider of flexible workspace, with 3,500 locations operating under brands including Regus, Spaces and HQ across 120 countries. Its network is unrivaled in its reach, which extends beyond central business districts to suburban and rural areas, where employees have an unparalleled choice of locations in the heart of their local…
Jeff Bezos Christens New Texas Wind Farm in Ridiculous Twitter Video
The second richest man in America smashed a champagne bottle on top of a 300-foot-tall wind turbine.
The second richest man in America smashed a champagne bottle on top of a 300-foot-tall wind turbine. Today is HQ2 deadline day, and with the eyes of the world on Amazon, CEO and founder Jeff Bezos tweeted out a video of him standing atop a giant wind turbine, and christening it by smashing a champagne…
Nearly 20k Amazon, Whole Foods Frontline Employees Test Positive for Coronavirus
Compared to the general population, The Seattle-based e-commerce giant says it expected to see nearly 34,000 positive cases among frontline employees.
Compared to the general population, The Seattle-based e-commerce giant says it expected to see nearly 34,000 positive cases among frontline employees.
Business and Civic Leaders Denounce the Threat to Public Safety in Downtown Seattle
In a letter to public officials, they urge action to permanently take back Third Avenue from the open drug market
In a letter to public officials, they urge action to ‘permanently take back Third Avenue from the open drug market’
Seattle’s got talent: New report highlights how ‘techie’ the region is really is
Mention Seattle to someone in, say, New York and three things come to mind: coffee, rain and technology. Stereotypes, sure, but truisms nonetheless. Now comes a report by commercial real estate firm CBRE that Seattle leads all markets across the United States in tech-job creation. The Seattle-Bellevue-Tacoma area added 45,560 technology jobs between 2016 and…
Pattern Takes on Covid
Company says rapid spit test is 98.5% accurate
Startup Pattern Computer Inc. is seeking FDA approval for a rapid Covid testing device that uses two drops of spit to diagnose Covid in a mere three seconds and confirms the virus with 98.5% accuracy. It can also distinguish other viral diseases at a 70% predictive rate. “We have the world’s fastest, most accurate, highest…
Chaos to Cure
Pattern computer is on the precipice of discovering new treatments for cancer and other diseases
In less than three years, Pattern Computer Inc. (PCI) has discovered a pair of two-drug candidates for triple-negative breast cancer, the hardest cancer to treat. The 5-year-old startup has entered mice trials and is shopping its triple-negative breast cancer discoveries to big pharmaceutical companies, which will conduct human trials and perhaps commercialize Pattern’s discoveries. The…