Microsoft President: Democracy Is At Stake. Regulate Big Tech Brad Smith says governments need to step in and set rules for the Internet giants. "Almost no technology has gone so entirely unregulated, for so long, as digital technology," he says.
Microsoft Closes The Book On Its E-Library, Erasing All User Content The move comes as a result of Digital Rights Management, an approach that allows companies to prevent piracy. Every purchased book will disappear this month.
How an Amazon pledge figures in the politics of housing Amazon and Microsoft this week pledged $5 million each to build housing for homeless people in the Seattle area. Is there a political effect of this kind of corporate action?
Amazon, Microsoft back new push to house the homeless in Seattle Some of the Seattle area’s biggest businesses are backing a $75 million fund-raising effort by Plymouth Housing to build homes for 800 homeless people.
KUOW Newsroom Trust in Microsoft? That's the message at Build conference Microsoft is wrapping up its annual developer conference in Seattle on Wednesday. Geekwire’s Todd Bishop hit the highlights of Build for KUOW’s Angela King.
‘A moment of reckoning.’ Microsoft grapples with questions, backlash after sexism email thread On the morning of April 22, Microsoft broadcast a livestream to thousands of employees from Lindsay-Rae McIntyre, Microsoft’s chief diversity officer. She was there talk about the emails.
KUOW Newsroom Tax hike on Amazon and Microsoft will help pay college tuition Washington Governor Jay Inslee is expected to sign a bill raising $1.5 billion in new taxes for higher education between now and 2025.
Microsoft's new climate plan: charge itself for polluting Microsoft's ambitious climate action plan including a $15 carbon fee on itself.
KUOW Newsroom This new Indian detective movie stars Seattle's tech scene Indian expats said making the movie in the Seattle area was like launching a global tech start-up.
KUOW Newsroom We made our own version of Alexa. Here's what we learned. Virtual assistants like Alexa are dumber than you'd think. And unlikely to go "Skynet" on us any time soon.
