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  Soundside

  Microsoft joins the chorus of tech companies announcing layoffs

  Big tech companies are slimming down. Amazon, Salesforce, and Twitter are just some of the companies that have announced thousands of layoffs in recent weeks. Wednesday morning, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that the company would also be making significant layoffs.
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  Seattle Now

  Casual Friday with Geraldine DeRuiter and Kurt Schlosser

  The kids are not alright and this week, Seattle and Kent public schools filed lawsuits claiming the big social media companies are partly responsible. The king county council will consider a proposal to ban all cash businesses in some areas. And a bit of shift in the local companies ranking as some of the best employers in the US. We’re breaking down the week with Geekwire's Kurt Schlosser and the Everywhereist’s Geraldine DeRuiter.
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  Soundside

  ZeniMax Studios forms biggest union in gaming — and the first for Microsoft

  Before video game players get to solve a puzzle, swing a single axe, or save that princess, a quality assurance tester has tried to break the game in thousands of different ways. That tester may also be subject to difficult contract cycles, a grueling schedule, and low compensation.
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  Soundside

  Could the U.S. ban TikTok for everyone?

  ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok, is based in Beijing, and many U.S. officials worry that the user data it collects could be misused. That's led many states to ban the app on government devices, and some legislators want to take it a step further.
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  Week In Review

  Week in Review: Murder investigation, Washington legislature, and tech layoffs

  Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with freelance journalist Joanne Silberner, Puget Sound Business Journal’s Alex Halverson, and Seattle Times Elise Takahama.
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  Soundside

  A step closer to a new form of renewable energy: nuclear fusion

  On Tuesday, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm walked up to a microphone to drop some big science news: Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California had achieved a fusion mileston.
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  Soundside

  Brain technology is moving forward, but are ethical standards up to speed?

  When you’re experimenting with human brains, or even monkey brains, you’re experimenting with the organ that keeps a creature alive. It’s our brains, with all their synapses and neurons, that makes us who we are. So how do you experiment with brain technology ethically?
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  Seattle Now

  Alexa's downfall

  By some metrics, Alexa has been a huge success. It created the smart speaker market and made Amazon a dominant presence in many people's homes. But now, amid its largest every layoffs, Amazon is slashing the teams that work on its voice assistant. What went wrong with Alexa? Fast Company Senior Writer Ainsley Harris explains.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  How long will Seattle's tech shakeup last?

  Recent layoffs in Seattle's tech industry has some workers wondering if they're going to be next. They're also raising questions about whether this is a correction that's been a long time coming for the ever-growing industry.
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  Seattle Now

  Casual Friday with Jodi-Ann Burey and Andrew Walsh

  Seattle is getting a new voting system after a confusing ( in more than on

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