Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 22, 2023 – GeekWire

The Seattle punk-pop group, which played as a “house band” between Seattle Kraken games at the Climate Pledge Arena this week, will not perform again this weekend, as previously planned, the band tweeted on Friday. . A song from the first performance criticizing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. … read more

Dungeons & Dragons is by most standards a tabletop role-playing game. … read more

— Former Microsoft executive Kristina Behr joins Google as VP of Product Management for Google Workspace Collaboration and Apps. … read more

The Washington Supreme Court will hear a debate this week about whether a statewide tax on capital gains over $250,000 is legal. … read more

DevZero, a Seattle software development startup led by a former Uber engineer, has announced $26 million in funding and the general availability of a platform aimed at making it easier for developers to write code in the cloud. . … read more

— Robotics guru and University of Washington professor Siddhartha Srinivasa has left his position as Director of Robotics AI at Amazon to join Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of General Motors. … read more

With the explosive rise of ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot released by OpenAI last fall, educators across the country are rethinking how they teach and assess student assignments. … read more

Is Hydrogen the Green Aviation Fuel of the Future? … Read More

This sparkling new addition to the Seattle Convention Center is a $2 billion statement piece to the downtown Seattle landscape. … read more

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in a memo last week that customers should “optimize their digital spending to do more with less” and “caution” in the face of economic uncertainty. He said he was looking at “paying for” and announced a 10,000-person job cut. … read more