How technology is helping remove racist language in Washington state property deeds – GeekWire
A brochure advertising Seattle’s Blue Ridge neighborhood included language limiting homeownership and rentals to people of the white or Caucasian race. (Photo courtesy of the UW’s Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project) If you live in a home…
Valve Is Open to Helping Microsoft Bring PC Game Pass to Steam
With the massive popularity of PC Game Pass, Valve says it’s open to helping Microsoft bring the feature over onto Steam. Speaking about the company’s own video game storefront with PC Gamer, Valve CEO Gabe Newell revealed that the digital…
California-based app Premise battles accusations of helping Russian military
Premise, a San Francisco-based tech company that pays users around the world to share market research and intelligence information with companies and governments, said it suspended its activities in Ukraine on Friday “out of an abundance of caution”…
Ex-Apple engineers are helping Qualcomm build new chip to rival M1
The performance and power efficiency of Apple’s M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max chips have astounded us over the past year, and now chipmaker Qualcomm has announced plans to debut a rival chip in 2023 with the help of some former Apple employees. This is a…
StartUps on the Blocks helping Black and brown entrepreneurs learn basics of startups
Carlos Kyles grew up in the small town of Century and was bullied frequently in school. He would be called names, cursed at, and people regularly tried to physically hurt him. Kyles’ bullying made him develop anger issues and depression but he…
How this Seattle startup is helping shift HR diversity efforts from ‘touchy-feely’ to data driven
Included co-founders, from left to right: Chandan Golla, Laura Close and Raghu Gollamudi. (Included Photo) The news: Seattle startup Included raised a $1.9 million pre-seed round from FlyingFish, SignalFire and Ascend. Putting data in DEI: In the wake of…
Nationwide campaign helping local domestic violence survivors
More Than a Phone provides survivors of domestic violence with a free smartphone, which could be the lifeline they need. INDIANAPOLIS — On game day in Indianapolis, before the Colts took the field against the Tennessee Titans at Lucas Oil Stadium, fans…
New York mother and son arrested after allegedly helping in theft of Pelosi’s laptop during Capitol riot
The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a mother and son on Friday, charging the duo with theft for aiding in the robbery of Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s laptop during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Maryann Mooney-Rondon, 55, and her son, Rafael Rondon,…