Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 29, 2021

Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 29, 2021.

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Most popular stories on GeekWire

AI-powered weed destroying startup harvests $27M round, farmers say laser-blasting machine saves time and cuts pesticide use

Investors are putting more cash behind the self-driving weed-zapping machines made by Carbon Robotics that are attracting attention from farmers across the world. … Read More

The fight against ‘murder hornets’: Kevlar thread to tie on trackers, thick foam suits to prevent stings

The entomologists and researchers leading the fight against Asian giant hornets in Washington state have made some tweaks to the tech they’re using to tag, track and hopefully eliminate the invasive species. … Read More

Uber and Convoy vets land $5.3M for new startup Solo that helps gig workers make more money

Gig economy companies such as Uber, Instacart, goPuff and others have given workers a new way to earn money on their own schedule. … Read More

Putting the Nirvana in NFT: Photographer Charles Peterson digs into grunge archives for digital debut

The look on Kurt Cobain’s face might just say it all — like someone in 1991 just explained to him what “non-fungible token” is going to mean in 2021. … Read More

Money transfer startup Remitly reveals financial results in preparation for upcoming IPO

Seattle-based money remittance company Remitly disclosed key financial results on Monday afternoon in its Form S-1 registration statement, a key milestone toward becoming a publicly traded company. … Read More

98point6 CEO Robbie Cape is no longer with the company in abrupt shakeup at telemedicine startup

98point6 CEO Robbie Cape is no longer working at the heavily-funded virtual healthcare company he helped start in 2015, GeekWire has learned. … Read More

As Amazon booms in California, cities want state to fix ‘tremendous inequity’ in sharing of tax revenue

Some California cities are calling on the state to return to a more equitable method of sharing tax revenue generated by Amazon’s online sales — warning that a change made earlier this year creates an unfair system of “winners and losers” in the disbursement of millions of dollars used for critical public services. … Read More

Elon Musk goads Jeff Bezos on Twitter as their prolonged space spat escalates

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has fired a fresh volley of tart tweets at Jeff Bezos, the founder of Amazon and the Blue Origin space venture, in the midst of a regulatory tussle over SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation and Amazon’s competing Project Kuiper concept. … Read More

Windows 11 has a release date: Microsoft to start ‘phased and measured’ rollout Oct. 5

Microsoft announced this morning that it will release Windows 11 on Oct. … Read More

Here’s how the #ADayOffTwitch strike impacted viewer hours on Amazon-owned Twitch

Sept. 1 saw a day-long strike by some of the most popular streamers on Twitch, and according to numbers released on Thursday morning, it took a deep cut out of the network’s content for the day. … Read More
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