Today’s featured stories Sue Bird’s secrets: How the WNBA star uses tech to beat her competition — at 37 years old Power struggle: How a bitcoin mining boom is transforming apple country, one megawatt at a time Impinj unveils new connected bag tags for the airline industry, aiming to curb lost luggage woes Subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube. [Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s tech news rundown show, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube, and check back weekday afternoons for more.]
Sue Bird is the WNBA’s oldest player, but you wouldn’t have guessed it watching this month’s playoffs. Case in point: Her incredible fourth quarter performance that helped the Seattle Storm get to the WNBA Finals last week. Sue Bird is the oldest player in the @WNBA. That didn't stop her from dropping FOURTEEN in the final 5:48 to send Seattle to the Finals pic.twitter.com/jCqw1cyDsB — SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) September 5, 2018 And then, during Game 2 of the Finals against Washington on Sunday, she did this: THIS IS HOW YOU BRING THE HOUSE DOWN! What do you think, @SportsCenter?… Read More
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Andy Jassy runs the world’s largest cloud computing business. He also just joined an NHL franchise ownership group trying to bring professional hockey to Seattle. So the new team operations and arena infrastructure will use Amazon Web Services technology, right? “I don’t think anyone has gone that far,” Jassy said. It’s too early to tell how Amazon will be involved in the potential NHL team playing at a proposed redeveloped KeyArena, just blocks away from the company’s headquarters in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. But Jassy is already jazzed to be apart of it all. GeekWire caught up with Jassy,… Read More
Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, has joined the investor group aiming to bring an NHL expansion team to Seattle, adding new financial capital and tech credibility to the effort to land a pro sports franchise a few blocks from the tech giant’s headquarters. Why this top Amazon exec just placed a bet on a future Seattle NHL franchise The group, called Seattle Hockey Partners, announced new additions to its ownership team as part of a press conference at Seattle’s Space Needle on Wednesday that included Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan. Jassy joined Amazon in 1997 and helped launch Amazon… Read More
