Technology
Seattle City Council Advances Work Plan to Overhaul Regulations for Taxis, Uber and Lyft
The resolution comes up for final approval on Monday.
This story originally ran on SCC Insight. For more on what’s happening with taxis and ride-share services in Seattle, read this month’s cover story, “Seeking Direction,” written by Kevin Schofield. Yesterday, the council voted out of committee a resolution establishing its work plan for revising regulations on taxi, for-hire, and TNC (e.g. Uber and Lyft)…
This Seattle Startup Is Developing AI Technology that Works for Smartphones
What it means for industry is that now you can actually make many, many more devices around you way smarter than they are right now.
OFFICIAL RECOGNITION: Xnor.ai delivers artificial intelligence that allows smartphones and other devices to detect objects, for example, and people (such as Ali Farhadi, above). Photo by John Vicory. Illustration by Lori Kelley. This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Two years ago, Ali Farhadi, an associate…
Urged on by Bill Gates, this Washington Company Can Turn Waste to Water and Make Sewage Profitable
Janicki Bioenergys high-tech waste treatment seems a boon for developing countries. Now comes the hard part: Convincing local municipalities that itll work here, too.
This article appears in print in the March 2018 issue. Click here for a free subscription. Its not entirely clear even to executives at Janicki Industries, a Sedro-Woolley composite tooling manufacturer primarily serving aerospace, how it came to use its high-tech chops to develop a technology for turning human waste matter into water, energy and…
University of Washington Is Using a Former Manufacturing Plant To Develop Clean Energy Products
UWs Testbeds facility provides open access for cleantech research.
FOR A HEALTHIER PLANET: A UW researcher works on a solar film at the Washington Clean Energy Testbeds. Photo by Matt Hagen. This article appears in print in the December 2017 issue. Click here for a free subscription. The Washington Clean Energy Testbeds center is taking the concept of university-industry collaboration to a new level….
Plimp, a Plane-Blimp Hybrid, Is Looking to Disrupt the Drone Market
Seattle brothers James and Joel Egan are adding a new airship to the drone market, and it could be available as soon as next year.
What if you could bring together in a drone-like vehicle the best features of an airplane, a helicopter and a blimp? Identical twin brothers James and Joel Egan have been asking themselves that question for years. Not finding anyone else addressing it, they decided to do it themselves and created the Plimp. The name, like…
How Wave Broadband is Helping the University of Washington Launch a New Era of Ocean Discovery
The Regional Cabled Array facility is using Wave's fiber network to transmit data real-time 24/7 to a global user community.
Image Credit: University of Washington/NSF-OOI/CSSF; See below for image description. sponsored by Wave Broadband The University of Washington (UW) operates and maintains the Regional Cabled Array facility, a component of the National Science Foundations Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). The OOI is an integrated infrastructure program composed of science-driven platforms and sensor systems that measure physical,…
Seattle Startup with UW Roots is Fighting Resistance to Antiobiotic Treatment
ID Genomics takes the guesswork out of prescribing antibiotics.
In 2014, a UK study predicted that, by 2050, antibiotic resistance will cause more fatalities than cancer. Bacteria like E. coli, one of the most common causes of urinary tract infections, are quick to evolve and are rapidly outsmarting new treatments. With bugs, were losing the battle, says Dr. Evgeni Sokurenko, the founder of ID…
Seattle Startup Turns Your Smartphone into a Camera with Cinema-quality Lenses
Moment is capitalizing on the rise of mobile photography, and now has millions of dollars in sales.
Moments story is straightforward. There was this massive cultural movement happening around the smartphone, says Marc Barros. Everyone was using it as their camera, but no one had said, Hey, thats a camera. Lets make a family of accessories around it. So, in 2013, Barros, who previously created the Go-Pro rival known as Contour, launched…
Every car2go in Seattle Will Soon Be a Mercedes-Benz
The carsharing service is upgrading its fleet by the end of 2017.
Carsharing service car2go is making big changes to its Seattle fleet of vehicles. By the end of 2017, every car it has in the city will be a Mercedes-Benz, the company announced. Germany-based car2go, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Daimler North America Corporation, now has more than 100,000 members and more than 750 vehicles in the…
T-Mobile Reports Strong 3Q Earnings, Stokes Rumors on Sprint Merger
CEO John Legere didn't take the typical questions after the Bellevue company's new earnings report, but did talk about T-Mobile's big third quarter in a new video.
T-Mobile posted strong numbers in new earnings report, but company executives skipped the usual post-report call, stoking rumors that the company is headed toward a deal with Sprint. Bellevue-based T-Mobile reported its third quarters earnings today, highlighted by 1.3 million total net additions, service revenues increasing 7 percent to $7.6 billion, and a 50 percent…
