Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 21, 2025 – GeekWire

Seattle’s tech scene got the national treatment this past weekend as the Wall Street Journal detailed the fallout from layoffs in a city heavily dependent on Microsoft and Amazon. … Read More

Next-generation battery materials startup Sila is starting operations at its first-of-a-kind, automotive-scale manufacturing facility Washington. … Read More

If you missed IShowSpeed in Seattle, you’re too slow. … Read More

It’s taken more than 2.5 million years to get from the earliest sharpened-stone version of a knife to what Scott Heimendinger believes is a modern kitchen marvel. … Read More

Microsoft says it has developed a breakthrough microfluidics cooling system for chips, resembling the veins in a leaf and using AI to match the processor’s heat signature, promising greater overall efficiency in data centers. … Read More

GeekWire caught up with Srinivasa for a conversation about the state of robotics, opportunities for entrepreneurs, and why he believes Seattle can become a global leader in AI and robotics. … Read More

Five years after Washington became the first state to legalize natural organic reduction, 13 more states have approved the death care process. … Read More

Starbucks closed its flagship Reserve Roastery in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, nearly 11 years after the location opened as an especially technical and geeky ode to the coffee-making process. … Read More

The Seattle Mariners announced Friday that they will shut down Root Sports Northwest at the end of the 2025 season, shifting all aspects of broadcast production, carriage, and streaming of Mariners games to Major League Baseball beginning in 2026. … Read More

Earlier this week I was on an email thread with someone trying to schedule a video call. … Read More