No more ‘incognito mode’ for Apple in Seattle: After flying under the radar for several years in the land of Microsoft and Amazon, Apple is making its presence clear in the city for the first time. The signs outside the company’s new building at 333 Dexter are a departure from its stealthy past in the city. The company’s name wasn’t even listed in the lobby directory of a downtown skyscraper. The company has built a large engineering presence in the city, in part through a series of acquisitions focused on machine learning and artificial intelligence. No official word yet on when it will move into the new building. Read the story.
Public broadband: A bill that would give local governments and public agencies the ability to offer retail internet services appears headed to a floor vote in the Washington state House of Representatives.
AOC returns to Twitch: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hopped on Amazon’s Twitch platform again, this time to discuss the GameStop short-stock scandal. Her stream initially peaked at more than 368,000 viewers and featured Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian. Read more.
Pandemic’s effect on trucking: In its inaugural “Freight Insights Report,” Seattle-based Convoy examined how consumer shopping habits upended by COVID-19 in March rippled through the U.S. freight industry throughout 2020. Read more.
COVID-19 restrictions eased in Seattle: Businesses are able to resume limited indoor services under Gov. Inslee’s updated plan to determine which activities are permitted in order to slow the spread of COVID-19.
Closing the tech gender gap: Connect, outreach, mentor, empower. That’s how you can become an agent of change, advised Microsoft exec Gavriella Schuster, who spoke at this week’s Women in Cloud event about how to boost the number of female leaders in the tech industry. Read more.
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