Month: August 2016

Microsoft is phasing out its Azure RemoteApp over the next year in favor of relying on its partnership with Citrix — specifically, the XenApp “express” product currently under development, according to a Microsoft blog post today. RemoteApp let developers make programs accessed remotely appear as if they were running on the end-user’s desktop, according to Microsoft…

“Seveneves” by Neal Stephenson. (Credit: William Morrow) Seattle science-fiction author Neal Stephenson’s tale about the moon’s destruction and what happens next, “Seveneves,” has won a place on President Barack Obama’s summer reading list. Obama, who’s beginning his summer vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, isn’t the only one who has put Stephenson’s 880-page novel on a short list. Microsoft…

Seattle is a hub for healthcare innovation. But issues like high rates of hospital readmission, lack of accessibility, and costly diagnostics remain pressing concerns in the industry. The Kal Academy, a nonprofit coding school for minorities, is teaming up with Microsoft’s LEAP program to host Hack for Healthcare, a one-day coding event focused on finding solutions to…

Scott Wu of NewSky Security Hardly a day goes by without a high-profile security breach or nasty computer hack. Scott Wu and Song Li — the co-founders of Redmond-based NewSky Security — want to stop those hackers in their tracks. The longtime security professionals — Wu held engineering and research roles for Symantec, Microsoft and…

Via Shippable. More developers use Google Cloud Platform to run their containerized applications (52 percent) than either Microsoft Azure (49 percent) or Amazon Web Services (43 percent), according to a  a freely downloadable infographic released today by Seattle container-acceleration firm Shippable. The survey of 300 developers found that though only 14 percent are now using containers in…

[Spoiler Alert] This article may spoil some of the surprises from the latest episode of “Mr. Robot.” If you haven’t watched eps2.4_m4ster-s1ave.aes, check it out on USA Network, Amazon, or iTunes before coming back to this article to learn its secrets. LATEST IN A SERIES: Corey Nachreiner, CTO at Seattle-based WatchGuard Technologies, is reviewing episodes of Mr. Robot on…

Don’t try this at home. A screen shot of the UnitedHealthcare ad making a splash online during the Olympics. (Via iSpot.tv) Who wins in the pool or on the soccer pitch or at the gymnastics venue is all well and good when it comes to the Rio Olympics, but at iSpot.tv they’re in the business…