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What’s really happening in Seattle’s protest zone? Photographer creates 360-degree immersive tour

Troubled by news reports about events allegedly taking place in an area of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood in recent days, Paolo Tosolini left his home in Bellevue, Wash., on Sunday and ventured across Lake Washington to “seek the truth.” He entered the area now called “Capitol Hill Organized Protest,” or “CHOP,” equipped with 360-degree photography equipment to capture the scene and provide his own report through images for those who can’t make it in person.

T-Mobile hit by voice and text outage due to widespread routing issue

Update, 9:20 p.m. PT: T-Mobile CEO Mike Sievert issued an update Monday evening.

Melinda Gates and MacKenzie Bezos unveil $30M gender equality initiative

Two of the world’s wealthiest women are teaming up to roll out a $30 million initiative that will provide grants to organizations with “transformational” ideas for improving gender equality.

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Cloud wars: Amazon Web Services to open new office just down the road from Microsoft HQ

The cloud rivalry between Amazon and Microsoft continues to heat up.

COVID-19 projections show higher death tolls ahead as restrictions are lifted

The latest projections suggest there's going to be an upswing in America's daily COVID-19 death toll, but they differ in how that upswing will develop.

NASA gets set to put astronauts on Blue Origin and Virgin Galactic suborbital flights

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine signaled today that astronauts would soon be cleared to take suborbital spaceflights aboard commercial rocket ships.

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T-Mobile explains why it had a major outage: ‘We did not meet our own bar for excellence’

T-Mobile apologized to customers and revealed the root cause of its major outage on Monday that affected voice and text service for customers across the U.S.

How Amazon, Uber and others are commemorating Juneteenth in honor of emancipation

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is encouraging employees to cancel meetings and "take some time to reflect, learn and support each other" on Juneteenth, a day commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.

Amazon takes heat for chicken and waffles Juneteenth celebration at Chicago warehouse

Amazon warehouse workers in Chicago expressed outrage at a flyer advertising a chicken and waffles event to commemorate Juneteenth, a celebration of the end of slavery in the U.S.

Seattle City Council unveils new payroll tax targeting Amazon and other large companies

The Seattle City Council introduced a new proposal Tuesday to tax the largest companies in the city, the latest in a series of attempts to capture some of the wealth generated by Amazon, Expedia, and other big businesses to address critical challenges.

Outreach raises $50M as billion-dollar Seattle startup aims to capitalize on remote sales trend

Outreach is putting more fuel in the tank.

Microsoft lands another cloud deal, inks strategic partnership with analytics giant SAS

Microsoft inked another key cloud partnership, announcing a deal Monday with Cary, N.C.-based data analytics giant SAS on Monday.

This VC firm just led a startup investment without meeting the founders in person — here’s how it went

Investing in a startup without meeting the founders in person — it’s the new normal amid a global pandemic.

Supreme Court’s denial of Trump’s attempt to rescind DACA is a win for Dreamers and Microsoft

The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the Trump administration's attempt to dissolve the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, preserving a policy that allows immigrants who came to the U.S.

Seattle tech salaries third best in U.S. as new report highlights coronavirus and remote work concerns

Career marketplace Hired is out with its annual State of Salaries report for the tech industry, and among leading hubs, Seattle showed the most modest increase in pay at just 3 percent.