Hunter Irving is like a tech time traveler. Or he’s just a guy who can’t shake the impact that working at Seattle’s former Living Computers: Museum + Labs had on… Read More
There’s probably a magazine article out there somewhere about how to successfully bid on something at auction and come away a winner. Hopefully it’s not in a 1975 copy of… Read More
Living Computers: Museum + Labs will live on, in spirit, far from Seattle. The Paul Allen estate announced Thursday that it has sold the remaining historical computing and technology artifacts… Read More
Rare computing artifacts, space-related objects, documents, letters and more from the collection of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen reeled in more than $10 million during a live auction on… Read More
Following the June announcement that Living Computers: Museum + Labs would stay closed for good, fans of the Seattle institution lamented the inability to ever set foot in the place… Read More
Lāth Carlson, the former executive director of Seattle’s Living Computers Museum + Labs, is returning to the city to head up another institution, as executive director and CEO of the… Read More
Computer enthusiasts who sold or donated vintage items to Paul Allen and Seattle’s Living Computers Museum + Labs are concerned that their contributions could be auctioned off, scattered, discarded, or… Read More
Fans of the Living Computers Museum + Labs in Seattle reacted with disappointment to the news Tuesday that Paul Allen’s estate won’t be reopening the facility, as some questioned whether… Read More
Living Computers Museum + Labs, the Seattle institution created by the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen as a hands-on showcase for rare computing technology and interactive displays, will not reopen,… Read More
Seattle-area cultural institutions founded by the late Paul Allen, including the Cinerama movie theater and Living Computers Museum + Labs, face the possibility of permanent closure after Vulcan Inc. announced Wednesday that… Read More
Due to the coronavirus outbreak, many events listed on our community calendar have been postponed or canceled. Others have been changed to online-only events. If our calendar lists an event… Read More
— Former PayScale CFO Mark Klebanoff signed on with Amperity as chief operating officer. Klebanoff, who joined PayScale in 2013, previously worked with Amperity co-founders Kabir Shahani and Derek Slager at… Read More
— Microsoft President Brad Smith thinks the tech industry needs to be careful about new advances and think mindfully about how they’re possibly changing the world in a negative way.… Read More
— Do you remember where you were and what you were doing in 1995? Television was dominated by ER, Seinfeld, and Friends. Die Hard with a Vengeance and the original… Read More
— You’d be hard-pressed to find anyone in tech who doesn’t know about Visual Studio — and most of them probably use it. Now, with the launch of Visual Studio… Read More
— For the fifth year in a row, artists from the Pacific Northwest will showcase their work at The Seattle Art Fair beginning on Aug. 1 at the CenturyLink Field… Read More
— Lots of science fiction movies and television series feature alien life that looks, for the most part, like us. Star Trek in particular is filled with this representation of… Read More
— The 50th anniversary celebration of the moon landing continues at the Museum of Flight with the Lunar Block Party, July 19-21. The event is set to include various educational… Read More
— The Apollo Program and moon landing is a historic event captured in a variety of media. Movies, television, and books have all told the story of the 12 men… Read More
The Apollo 11 Lunar Module Timeline Book that sat between Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin for the moon landing 50 years ago is going up for auction, at a price… Read More
— Films based on characters from Marvel comics have dominated the box office for the first half of the year. Avengers: Endgame is even getting a re-release in the hopes… Read More
— Computers, at least the ones somewhat resembling what we know today, have been around since the mid-20th Century. Seattle is lucky enough to have some of the original gems… Read More
— It’s hard to find a new car these days that doesn’t have some type of technology inside, and those technologies are becoming more and more sophisticated. It’s no longer… Read More
— Atari Women, a University of Washington research project, is looking to give more limelight to the women who were crucial during the early age of game development. The group,… Read More
— When he invented the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee had a specific vision for how it would evolve, and things haven’t gone exactly as he planned. At its… Read More
A large police presence Thursday at Living Computers: Museum + Labs, the Seattle institution founded by the late Paul Allen, turned out to be because a person broke in and… Read More
Many will remember him as the co-founder of Microsoft, or the owner of the Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers. But Paul G. Allen had a deep and broad impact… Read More
GeekWire Summit attendees will spend the next two days in Seattle hearing from some of today’s leading innovators in the tech and science industries. On Monday night, they took a… Read More
A rare piece of computer history is headed to auction next month in Boston, shedding light yet again on the earliest work of Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The… Read More
On this episode of the Week In Geek podcast, we take a trip back to the heyday of Walkmen and the Apple IIe. GeekWire reporter Kurt Schlosser got to visit the… Read More
