Neowin News Feed for: Seattle

Microsoft Build conference to leave Seattle after years in the city

Pradeep Viswanathan — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 01:52:01 +0000

Microsoft is relocating its annual Build developer conference from Seattle, potentially to San Francisco or Las Vegas in 2026. Read more...

The Living Computers Museum, created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is offically closed

John Callaham — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:02:02 +0000

The Living Computers Museum + Labs in Seattle, created by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is now officially closed for good, four years after it shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more...

Microsoft Ignite 2023 registration begins for the Nov. 14-17 developer conference in Seattle

John Callaham — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 13:36:01 +0000

The annual Microsoft Ignite developers conference will once again be a hybrid in-person and online event, as the company will likely make a number of announcements for IT developers and more. Read more...

Nintendo ditched E3 but will bring its own live event in Seattle this September

Anushe Fawaz — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 16:16:01 +0000

After announcing that it will not be participating in the popular gaming event E3, Nintendo has introduced its very own in-person event for US residents that is scheduled to September this year. Read more...

Eight Amazon Go stores will close from April 1 in New York City, San Francisco, and Seattle

Paul Hill — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 23:12:23 +0000

Amazon will close eight of its Amazon Go stores from April 1. It's not clear why it's shutting the stores but the company has said it's not giving up on its chain of checkout-less stores. Read more...

Social media sued by Seattle public schools over mental health concerns

Anushe Fawaz — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:34:01 +0000

Public schools in Seattle have filed a lawsuit against tech companies behind platforms like TikTok and Instagram for inflicting negative affects on the mental health of young students. Read more...

Alaska Airlines flight evacuated after Samsung Galaxy A21 reportedly catches fire

Usama Jawad — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 05:26:01 +0000

An Alaska Airlines flight was evacuated immediately after landing following a Samsung Galaxy A21 handset reportedly catching fire in the passenger cabin. Minor injuries have been confirmed too. Read more...

Amazon in contact with two COVID-19 test makers for workforce

Paul Hill — Sat, 04 Apr 2020 14:52:01 +0000

Amazon is working with two firms to acquire COVID-19 testing equipment that it can use to ensure members of its workforce are not infected. The tests check for existing cases rather than antibodies. Read more...

Microsoft announces $500 million investment to tackle Seattle housing crisis

Hamza Jawad — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 12:14:01 +0000

Microsoft had made its largest ever pledge, committing $500 million to fix the Seattle housing crisis. Mayors of the nine largest cities around Seattle will also aim to increase affordable housing. Read more...

Amazon launches its second Amazon Go checkout-free store

Paul Hill — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:56:01 +0000

Amazon has finally opened its second Amazon Go checkout-free store in Seattle. The store was announced back in July. Unfortunately, it is much smaller than was originally anticipated. Read more...

Take a sneak peek at the Microsoft's AI research facility

Gurkaran Singh — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 00:38:01 +0000

An exclusive sneak inside Building 99, Microsoft's AI research labs in Redmond, highlighted the company's objective of taking the present technology to the next level with bots and more. Read more...

Comcast is expanding its gigabit internet service, will be in 15 U.S. cities by early 2017

Chris Schroeder — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 20:00:01 +0000

The drive to offer gigabit service continues to grow with major internet service providers. Comcast, via its Xfinity service, plans to have 15 cities offering ultra-fast internet speeds in 2017. Read more...

Microsoft hosting Open House event for upcoming ID@XBOX games

Chris Schroeder — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 07:31:56 +0000

Microsoft is opening the doors to their Xbox facilities prior to PAX Prime in Seattle to the general public and PAX attendees Read more...

Microsoft creates a 20 gigapixel photo panorama of Seattle

John Callaham — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:10:31 +0000

Microsoft has created a new 20 gigapixel photo panorama of Seattle that used the company's Photosynth and Image Composite Editor software to merge nearly 2,400 separate photos. Read more...

Microsoft test drives new Bing Offers features in Seattle

John Callaham — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 18:30:25 +0000

Microsoft is launching a new pilot program in Seattle that will test drive some new Bing Offers features that are designed to immediately give consumers savings on a number of purchased items. Read more...

Microsoft Store in Seattle to offer live Xbox One game demos Thursday

John Callaham — Sat, 24 Aug 2013 20:09:10 +0000

Microsoft will hold a free Xbox community meeting on Thursday, August 29th at the Microsoft Store in Seattle where it will show live game demos of the Xbox One console. Read more...

Microsoft adds lots of new government customers to Office 365

John Callaham — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 17:53:13 +0000

Microsoft has announced that a number of new local governments in the US have signed up to use its Office 365 service, including the cities of Seattle and Kansas City. Read more...

Use of Google Glass already banned by Seattle diner

John Callaham — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 22:10:34 +0000

The 5 Point Cafe diner and dive bar in Seattle has announced it has banned the use of the Google Glass device in its establishment, saying, " ... a** kickings will be encouraged for violators." Read more...

Politician makes thinly veiled threat at Microsoft for Ballmer involvement in NBA relocation

Anthony Tosie — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 17:26:39 +0000

A California state senator has written a letter chastising Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer for his involvement in the Sacramento Kings relocation to Seattle, saying Ballmer shouldn't be part of the move. Read more...

Steve Ballmer may help bring Sacramento Kings NBA team to Seattle

John Callaham — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:31:29 +0000

A new report claims that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer may be part of a group of investors that will pay $500 million to bring the Sacramento Kings NBA team to Seattle. Read more...

Microsoft sues 27-year partner over work quality

Paul Ferson — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 00:46:01 +0000

Microsoft has turned against a partner they've had since the mid-1980s in Callison Architecture, due to poor quality work on one of their main data centers. This left thousands of machines at risk. Read more...

Epic Games Seattle opens for Unreal Engine 4 work

John Callaham — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 22:07:19 +0000

Epic Games has announced it is opening up yet another game development studio in Seattle where the team will work at first on engineering efforts for Unreal Engine 4. Read more...

Microsoft Store's Seattle launch profitable for some people

John Callaham — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:59:15 +0000

The launch this week of Microsoft's new retail store in Seattle was dampened by the fact that many of the people waiting in line just wanted free concert tickets to later scalp on online sales sites. Read more...

Software engineer Steve Lacey killed in car crash

Paul Ferson — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 01:41:36 +0000

Software engineer Steve Lacey died in a car crash yesterday in Kirkland, WA. The Seattle-based website of television channel KING 5 reports that Lacey's death came as part of a road rage incident in which... Read more...

World's top 10 IT locations

Chakkaradeep Chandran — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:28:58 +0000

PC Authority, the Australian Computer Magazine team has compiled a list of top 10 IT locations which it has found to be more IT friendly than the rest of the areas in the world. Below... Read more...

Seattle newspaper to publish on e-paper

Fri, 18 May 2007 19:25:37 +0000

US newspaper publisher Hearst has announced that it will trial versions of the Seattle Post Intelligencer on flexible colour LCD displays from LG Philips within the next two years. Electronic paper will be used to... Read more...

Microsoft Meltdown kicks off in Seattle

Wed, 28 Jul 2004 01:18:08 +0000

Gaming guru J Allard makes his case for DirectX to attendees as lattes and lectures herald the start of the developer-only event. This reporter is lucky to be here in Seattle at... Read more...

Sci-Fi in Seattle

Sun, 13 Jun 2004 20:01:26 +0000

Time is never too lacking for a Microsoft Co-Founder to show off his geekiness :P Microsoft Co-Founder to open museum dedicated to genre. Martians, time travelers and robots will have a... Read more...