Jul 31
In coffee shops and bookstores across Seattle this summer, advertisements for concerts and gallery shows shared space with a less common urban invitation: to a party for a really big drill.
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Jul 12
Jeff Bezos to open Center for Innovation this fall, aims to inspire young would-be entrepreneurs
Posted in: Today's Chili
What’s an e-commerce tycoon to do after funding everything from nuclear fusion startups to commercial spaceflight ventures? Why, help develop a museum exhibit to inspire young folks and teach them about innovation, of course. After more than two years of development and $10 million from Jeff Bezos’ own pockets, the Museum of History and Industry will open the doors to the Bezos Center for Innovation on October 12th. Not only does the center aim to help visitors learn about “the importance of innovation” through interactive exhibits, but it will toot Seattle’s horn for being “the birthplace of so many trailblazing companies.” If you can’t make it to The Emerald City, we’re sure Bezos has a few learning alternatives in mind.
Filed under: Alt
Source: Museum of History and Industry
Jul 05
The 2001 earthquake that brought down a length of State Route 99 running through downtown Seattle was a measly 6.8 on the Richter scale. But rather than rebuild the Alaska Viaduct, as the double-decker section was known, city officials instead decided to take the freeway underground in their very own Big Dig. To do so, Seattle’s using "Big Bertha:" the biggest Tunnel Boring Machine on Earth.
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Jun 24
Ultra-high-speed fiber-to-the-home from Gigabit Squared isn’t scheduled to light up Seattle until 2014, but the outfit’s just revealed what it aims to charge for its blisteringly-fast internet service. Folks who are content with the bare minimum can pay a $350 installation fee and net 5Mbps up and 1Mbps down at no charge for 60 months, and just $10 each month afterwards. With a one-year contract, residents of The Emerald City can avoid the setup charge and score 100Mbps down and 100Mbps up for a $45 monthly bill. If pure speed is your prime directive, 1Gbps up and down will be available for $80 per month, and with no cash put towards installation. Aching to hook up to the web at those eye-watering speeds? You’ll have to live in Seattle’s West Campus District, First Hill, Capitol Hill or Central Area neighborhoods, as they’ll be the first connected to Gigabit Squared’s pipes. There’s no sign-up process just yet, but it’s scheduled to go live next month.
[Image credit: Eli Duke, Flickr]
Filed under: Internet
Jun 18
AMD details first ARM-based server chip: up to 16 helpings of Cortex-A57 clocked at 2GHz
Posted in: Today's Chili
It’s hardly a secret that AMD has stepped out of its x86 comfort zone to develop an ARM-based server chip, but now we know a little more about it. Going by the name of “Seattle” and scheduled for launch in the second half of next year, it’ll be built around ARM’s 64-bit Cortex-A57 in either 8- or 16-core configurations, which will likely be clocked at a minimum of 2GHz. In an apparent acknowledgement of ARM’s superiority at low wattages, we’re told that this design has the potential to deliver 4x the performance of AMD’s current Opteron X processors, with improved compute-per-watt. There’s a clear limit to AMD’s reliance on ARM, however, as it’ll use Seattle to up against Intel’s little Atoms, but will continue to sell its own x86 designs for higher-power applications. Meanwhile, we’re still waiting on something more interesting from this union, which might be an ARM CPU paired with a Radeon HD graphics processor in some sort of mobile-class SoC. Guess we’ll just have to be patient.
Filed under: Networking, Internet, AMD
May 27
Okay, I actually don’t know if you could have produced these images with an 8-bit system, or if you would have needed a 16-bit one, but I still love the way these retro styled cityscapes look, no matter how many bits they required.
These illustrations were created by Miles Donovan of The Daily Robot, and are currently available in Chicago, Boston and Seattle versions. They kind of remind me of the sort of thing I might have drawn with Deluxe Paint on my old Atari ST, but they were painstakingly drawn with Adobe Illustrator.
Each print measures 12-inches square, is printed on heavy cover stock and is signed by the artist. You can choose from the day time scenes shown here, or a sunset version if you’d prefer. Since they are all vector art, the images could possibly be enlarged too, though you’ll need to ask the artist if he can get them printed in bigger sizes.
Head on over to The Daily Robot’s Etsy shop to order yours now.
May 22
You can take Amazon out of the jungle, but it’ll just create one elsewhere — at least that’s what the company is planning for its inner-city Seattle office complex. A tweaked proposal for Amazon’s three-block development, named “Rufus 2.0,” was run by Seattle’s Design Review Board yesterday, and it now includes a huge biodome structure with the notion that a “plant-rich environment has many positive qualities that are not often found in a typical office setting.” It’s five floors feature places to get work done, “dining, meeting and lounge spaces,” a pair of shops serving the general public and, of course, lots of plants and trees. We’ve included a few more renders of the multi-bubble glass house after the break, and you’ll find even more eye-candy in the source PDF. Forget the platform wars — the competition for the coolest next–gen campus is on.
Filed under: Misc, Alt, Amazon
Via: GeekWire
Source: Seattle.gov (PDF)
Feb 22
At more than 7,580 feet long, Seattle’s Governor Albert D. Rosellini Bridge is already the world’s longest floating bridge. But after fifty years of service the four-lane concrete span has aged worse than Gerard Depardieu. Its pontoon supports can no longer endure the region’s strong storms and the bridge itself is likely to collapse under a moderate earthquake. But Washington can rebuild it, they have the power, they have the technology. More »
Dec 21
The wheels of progress may turn slowly but they don’t ever stop, as these nine landlords have learned the hard way. Our friends at Oobject have assembled the best examples of what resisting gentrification gets you. More »
Oct 30
Engadget’s Seattle meetup wrap-up!
Posted in: Today's Chili 
Goodnight Seattle! Man, we sure had a blast at last night’s reader meetup. The party went down at the Showbox Theater, right across the street from the city’s fishy Pike Place Market. Droves of Emerald City Engadget readers braved the drizzle to hang out, talk tech and win some of the year’s coolest gadgets — including a brand new Microsoft Surface RT (yes, it came with a keyboard), a Nexus 7 and a pair of Kindle Fire HDs. We learned a lot of valuable lessons: everything’s better with a green screen, people want to know where we go sweater shopping and Seattle’s gadget geeks don’t really know all that much about the Wu Tang Clan. Thanks everyone for coming out — we’ll see you in New York City!
Gallery: Engadget’s Seattle meetup wrap-up!
Philip Palermo contributed to this report.
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