The Seattle office of the Online Computer Library Center has been awarded $ 250,000 as one of the winners of the Knight News Challenge on Libraries...
Seattle-based project to make librarians Wikipedia stars wins $250K in Knight News Challenge
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Good morning, sunshine: Microsoft project helps your plants talk back
Your house plants are definitely sending you a message when they wilt or drop leaves on the floor. But what if they could actually “speak” to you and convey how they’re feeling?
Project Florence,...
‘Space selfie’ project canceled: Planetary Resources offers Kickstarter refunds
REDMOND, Wash. – Three years ago, Planetary Resources raised more than $ ...
Microsoft’s Project Spark becomes free-to-nobody on August 12
We hardly knew ye, Project Spark... because you were confusing, and now because you're about to be shut down. (credit: Microsoft Studios)
Your chance to play with Microsoft's curious Project Spark "game" and/or creativity engine is all but done, thanks to a late-Friday announcement. An official blog post declared that the game's download and store sites had...
Boom moves ahead on supersonic plane project, with help from Virgin Galactic
Remember the Concorde? Boom Technology has picked up a high-profile set of allies in its quest to revive supersonic passenger jets: British...
Allen Institute joins in IARPA’s massive MICrONS project to create a tiny bit of virtual brain tissue
Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science is in on a...
Ex-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s new project is a ’10-K for government’ — and he’s fired up about it
Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been quietly working on a project that he describes as a “10-K for government,” a reference to the annual filing that public companies make with the Securities & Exchange Commission, chock-full of data for investors to evaluate the...
Governor stops Bertha in its tunneling tracks after sinkhole forms near troubled Seattle project
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Thursday said he was “seriously disappointed” and ordering a stop to the Bertha tunneling machine along Seattle’s waterfront after a sinkhole formed near the project this week. King5 reported that Inslee “is ordering tunnel contractor Seattle...
Two months after FBI debacle, Tor Project still can’t get an answer from CMU
Proof of connection: the site check.torproject.org will show you if you're connected via Tor. (credit: Tor)
Shari Steele, Executive Director of the Tor Project (credit: EFF)
It's been quite a few months for the Tor Project. Last November, project co-founder and director Roger Dingledine accused the FBI of paying Carnegie Mellon computer security researchers...
Reports: Tableau and Wave leases kick off big new real estate project in Kirkland, Wash.
Offices leases by Tableau Software and broadband company Wave will jump-start a large new real estate development in Kirkland, Wash., according to reports by the Puget Sound Business Journal and Seattle Times, citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the deal. It’s part of a...
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