The Quality Engine: How TSMC Became the Benchmark for Chipmaking Precision

Every advanced smartphone, AI accelerator, and data-center processor shipped today traces back to a small number of factories ...

Microsoft R&D jobs drop for second straight year as total headcount falls for first time in a decade

Microsoft's annual report shows the company employed 223,000 people as of June 30, down 5,000 from a year earlier and its first annual decline since 2016. Product R&D roles accounted for most of the ...

Seattle Tech Week notebook: AI, startups, and the best insights and takeaways we heard

GeekWire's Todd Bishop reports from Seattle Tech Week 2026, where more than 250 events made artificial intelligence the ...

Moving faster than planned, AI drug developer Accipiter Bio quietly tops up seed round with $10.5M

Seattle biotech startup Accipiter Bio has raised an additional $10.5 million from existing investors to accelerate its work ...

MSFT Q4 2025

Microsoft significantly exceeded earnings expectations for the June quarter and disclosed its standalone annual Azure revenue for the first time… Read More Have a scoop that you'd like GeekWire to ...

What’s his angle? Teen frustrated by plastic protractor reimagines the classic classroom tool

Wenxin Fang of Redmond, Wash., launched a hardware startup to create the ZeroPivot Protractor, a sleek, precision-machined aluminum replacement for the tool that gave him problems in math class.

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Ken Horenstein

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Sonic Diplomacy – World Fair to World Cup – What’s Next Seattle?

A morning gathering at KEXP bringing together creatives, tech and space leaders, and sports and music fans to talk about… ...

Wenxin Fang

Wenxin Fang of Redmond, Wash., launched a hardware startup to create the ZeroPivot Protractor, a sleek, precision-machined aluminum replacement for the tool that gave him problems in math class. Read ...

Amazon’s “Together We Hack” with Fortinet and WiCyS

A one-day, fully in-person Capture the Flag (CTF) challenge co-hosted by Amazon, Fortinet and Women in CyberSecurity (WiCyS) at Amazon’s… Read More ...

fiscal year 2026

Microsoft’s annual report shows the company employed 223,000 people as of June 30, down 5,000 from a year earlier and its first annual decline since 2016. Product R&D roles accounted for most of the ...