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- Decades before the current debates over gender and sexuality, the late Seattle science-fiction writer Vonda N. McIntyre flipped the script on those subjects. “In many of her stories, there are characters that, by the end of the book, you go, ‘You know, I don’t think it was ever established whether they were male, or female, […]
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- Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture today resumed sending people on suborbital space trips after a 21-month gap, and made a Black aerospace pioneer’s 60-year-old dream come true in the process. “Man, it feels good to be flying again,” launch commentator Ariane Cornell said. The six spacefliers on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket ship included […]
- The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that the new Call of Duty will launch on Xbox Game Pass, which marks a significant gamble for Xbox and the latest in a series of moves to determine the future of Microsoft’s gaming division. Activision, now owned by Microsoft, releases a new Call of Duty every year, which […]
- [Editor’s Note: This week’s GeekWire Podcast features an interview with author Loretta Napoleoni, conducted by Ross Reynolds, the longtime public radio host and occasional GeekWire Podcast guest host, in an event presented by Town Hall Seattle on April 18.] Loretta Napoleoni is an Italian economist and journalist whose books include “Rogue Economics” and “Insurgent Iraq.” […]
- Two of Expedia Group’s top engineering leaders have abruptly exited the company due to what the online travel giant called a “violation of company policy.” The Seattle-based company did not provide further details about the departures of CTO Rathi Murthy and Sreenivas Rachamadugu, senior vice president, core services product and engineering. Murthy and Rachamadugu “are […]
- Update: Mission managers have reset the first crewed flight test of Boeing’s Starliner space taxi for no earlier than May 25 to give Boeing, NASA and United Launch Alliance extra time for on-the-ground planning. The schedule change, announced today, adds four days to the previously planned delay. An initial attempt to send the gumdrop-shaped capsule […]