Apple’s Rumored 12-Inch MacBook: What We Know
Apple used to sell a 12-inch Retina MacBook with a low-power Core M chip, but it was discontinued back in 2019. Apple’s smallest notebooks have since been…
iOS 16: How to Change Notifications Layout on Your Lock Screen
In iOS 16, currently in beta, Apple made sweeping changes to the way the iPhone Lock Screen works, adding multiple layers of customization and the ability to…
Review: Anker’s 535 Portable Power Station Keeps Your Devices Running While You’re Off the Grid
At CES earlier this year, Anker introduced the 535 Portable Power Station, the latest entrant in its PowerHouse lineup of large portable batteries for supporting electronic devices…
M1 Macs in the cloud: Amazon Web Services releases upgraded Mac EC2 instances
Amazon Web Services is doubling down on the latest Apple technologies with the general availability of its EC2 M1 Mac instances, an upgrade of its service that…
‘Starfield,’ Kojima, Riot Games: Everything you need to know from Microsoft’s Xbox showcase
To some extent, Xbox is just killing time until Starfield, but there’s some good stuff here. (Microsoft image) Microsoft’s gaming division and its partner studios released a…
Spinning out science startups: UW’s Institute for Protein Design brings research beyond ivory tower
IPD’s commercial impact in Seattle. Spinouts are Monod Bio, Arzeda, Icosavax, Neoleukin Therapeutics, Cyrus Biotechnlogy, PvP Bio, A-Alpha Bio, and Mopac Bio. IPD scientists are co-founders and…
Blue Origin’s fifth crew celebrates firsts (and seconds) after suborbital space trip
Blue Origin’s New Shepard spaceship lifts off from its Texas launch pad. (Blue Origin via YouTube) Blue Origin sent the first Mexican-born woman and the first crypto-crowdfunded…
Major League Cricket secures $120M funding from Microsoft CEO and others to launch in U.S.
(Major League Cricket Photo) Major League Cricket is tapping into the tech and business communities to secure major funding for its planned launch in the U.S. The…
The next big challenge for robots: Insights from the new director of CMU’s Robotics Institute
Matthew Johnson-Roberson, new director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute, spent his teenage years in Seattle, and did his undergraduate studies at CMU. (GeekWire Photo / Todd…
M1 vs. M2 Chip Buyer’s Guide: How Much Better Really Is M2?
This month, Apple introduced the M2 chip – the second-generation custom silicon chip for the Mac. After the M1 chip revolutionized the Mac starting in November 2020,…