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Birkenstock CEO goes after Amazon over fake footwear, calls e-commerce giant...
(Birkenstock.com Photo) A year after walking away from its relationship with Amazon in the U.S., the German shoemaker Birkenstock is again targeting the e-commerce giant for what it believes is a...
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Geek of the Week: Architect Marty Brennan can light up a room — and we’ll...
Marty Brennan basks in the glow of blue light just off of Lake Michigan in Chicago. Controlling blue light is key in attempting to replicate daylight for interior settings like offices, hospitals and...
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A car for Mars: Elon Musk shows Tesla Roadster revving up for Falcon Heavy...
Elon Musk’s red Tesla Roadster is nestled within the payload shroud for a Falcon Heavy rocket. (Elon Musk via Instagram) After a flurry of speculation, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is showing off his midnight...
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Working Geek: Neal Myrick, head of Tableau Foundation, helps NGOs do good...
Neal Myrick, director of Social Impact and head of the Tableau Foundation. (Tableau Photo) In the three years since Seattle-based Tableau launched its foundation, the philanthropic arm of the data...
View ArticleIconic free-flying shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless passes away at the age...
News Brief: Retired astronaut Bruce McCandless II, the first astronaut to fly untethered from his spacecraft, has died at the age of 80. NASA said McCandless passed away on Thursday in California, but...
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Microsoft just sued an IP address over Windows, Office piracy claims
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella addresses shareholders at the company’s Dec 2017 annual meeting. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Microsoft filed a lawsuit late Friday against an IP address, alleging that...
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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends 10 more Iridium telecom satellites into orbit
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. (SpaceX via YouTube) SpaceX has sent 10 more satellites into orbit for the Iridium NEXT constellation, passing the...
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Week in Geek: Magic Leap’s first product revealed; what Bill Gates gave his...
The Lightwear goggles as part of the Magic Leap One bundle. (Screenshot Via Magic Leap Secretive augmented reality startup Magic Leap finally lifted the veil on its first product this week: Magic Leap...
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Job hunting? Tech skills increasingly tied to higher wages and economic...
All jobs are becoming tech jobs, to some extent. (BigStock Photo) Digital prowess has become one of the most powerful bargaining chips in the American job market over a relatively short period of...
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Aliens in L.A.? Santa? Even Elon Musk has some fun with SpaceX rocket’s sky show
The contrail left behind by SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch looked like a giant fish in the skies over Southern California. (Elon Musk via Twitter) The bloom of exhaust that blossomed in Southern...
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