Shang Shang is a model. She’s also a baker. And she’s an Ivy League PhD. But as sporting geeks, we can’t help...
Geek of the Week: Research scientist Shang Shang is an Amazon ping-pong champion
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GeekWork Picks: Paul Allen’s AI2 seeks Research Scientist amid ‘huge hiring spree’
Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, recently told GeekWire the company is on “a huge hiring spree.”
“We’re hiring to grow to 75 people or so over the coming year,” he said. “We’ve just gotten a...
MSNW’s magnetoshell aerobraking system gets in on NASA’s way-out research fund
A system that would use magnetic fields to ease a spacecraft into orbit after an interplanetary journey has won a $ 500,000 grant...
Paul Allen launches $100M Frontiers Group program for ‘out-of-the-box’ bioscience research
Seattle billionaire Paul Allen added another venture...
Cortana gains scheduling smarts as Microsoft pushes research group to get projects out of the lab
Personal assistants of the world beware: Cortana just learned another one of your tricks. Microsoft’s AI assistant for Windows 10 will soon be able to scan emails to provide users with reminders about things they said they would do, but may have forgotten about. Cortana...
Toyota’s research chief just told a CES crowd that there’s a long way to go before self-driving cars safely hit the road
LAS VEGAS — Nearly everywhere you turn at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show people are talking about self-driving cars. But don’t believe the hype. Much of the science to get autonomous cars safely on the road still...
Hey, coders: Want to do nuclear fusion research? This crowdsource challenge gives you a chance
It’s not clear when fusion power will pay off, but there’s a way to earn a cool $ 20,000 in fusion research. And you don’t even have to be a plasma physicist or an energy entrepreneur. All you have...
Encoding data in DNA for millennia? UW and Microsoft Research are on it
Data storage is getting better and better, but the final frontier for the long-term preservation of digital bits may well be DNA molecules – and the University of Washington and Microsoft Research are trying to make it so. The work on DNA data storage architecture is one of the angles in today’s New York Times story on the...
Research: Amazon won Cyber Monday with a whopping 36 percent of online sales
Amazon is still the king of e-commerce, claiming a commanding 36 percent marketshare on the biggest online shopping day of the year, according to Slice Intelligence. Slice tracks the online retail business by looking at receipts from 3 million shoppers. Its data found that Cyber Monday still tops Black Friday for e-commerce, counting 74.6 million shoppers who spent an...
As pollution in Beijing reaches extreme levels, here’s what Microsoft Research is doing to help
When I was traveling through Beijing earlier this month on a GeekWire reporting trip, my throat became itchy with mucus and my eyes dried up because of the pollution. But locals told me that the week prior was much worse, so I was actually a bit lucky. Fast forward to today, though, and...
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