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For Ricardo Lockette, overcoming adversity started long before the former NFL wide receiver and special teams stud nearly died on the field last year in Dallas. Lockette is now partnering with the Seattle Science Foundation to support spinal cord research, helping feed the homeless, and recently launched the Ricardo Lockette Foundation. This special episode features an interview with Lockette by GeekWire's Taylor Soper at the recent GeekWire Summit.  

Apple's new MacBook Pro comes with an eye-catching feature, a Touch Bar across the top of the keyboard that replaces the function keys with virtual buttons and sliders that change in context, depending on which program or app you're using at any given moment. But starting at $1799 for a 13-inch model with Touch Bar, is it really worth it? Andru Edwards of Gear Live joins us with a new MacBook Pro in this GeekWire podcast episode and video segment to give us his take.

This week on GeekWire: Stack Overflow CEO Joel Spolsky, Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, DARPA chief Arati Prabhakar, and Clinton digital strategist Teddy Goff. Highlights from the GeekWire Summit, with insights from top leaders in technology, science and business.

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: We talk about Amazon's mysterious grocery store plans, analyze the impact of Samsung pulling the Galaxy Note 7 from the market, and stage an intervention to get GeekWire's John Cook to finally back up and upgrade his phone. We're on location at Fox's Seattle, our podcast sponsor this week, a family-owned jewelry and design business that dates back more than a century in the city.

Amazon launches a regional employee bus service, leases a giant new office space in Bellevue, and donates $10 million to help build a new University of Washington computer science building. Plus, highlights from our conversation with Nathan Myhrvold at the GeekWire Summit, and the answer to last week's Trivia Challenge.

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we kick things off with a look into Microsoft's huge new move into artificial intelligence. We also get a peek behind the scenes at the sixth annual GeekGirlCon, a conference "celebrating the female geek" and all forms of diversity in science, tech, and geekdom. Plus, a new App of the Week, a GeekWire Trivia Challenge. We also get a special report from GeekWire's Alan Boyle on Elon Musk's visionary plan to put a million people on Mars in the next century.

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast, we come to you on location from Madrona Venture Group, speaking to Madrona co-founder Tom Alberg and investment associate Daniel Li. They are two authors of a report presented this week on introducing autonomous vehicles to Interstate 5, and creating an autonomous vehicle expressway between Seattle and Vancouver, B.C.

Can Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., team up to create a "Cascadia Innovation Corridor"? That's the goal of an upcoming event in Canada, featuring big names from both sides of the border. We discuss the challenges this week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast. Plus, GeekWire's Taylor Soper calls in from TechCrunch Disrupt and Levi's Stadium; an App of the Week that aims to turn your to-do list into a game, and a new breakthrough in text to speech technology.

Can Seattle and Vancouver, B.C., team up to create a "Cascadia Innovation Corridor"? That's the goal of an upcoming event in Canada, featuring big names from both sides of the border. We discuss the challenges this week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast. Plus, GeekWire's Taylor Soper calls in from TechCrunch Disrupt and Levi's Stadium; an App of the Week that aims to turn your to-do list into a game, and a new breakthrough in text to speech technology.

USA Network's 'Mr. Robot' is psychological thriller with a plot that explores, in great detail, the world of cybersecurity and hacking. Joining us to explain the technical aspects of the show is Corey Nachreiner, CTO at Seattle-based WatchGuard Technologies, who writes a regular series on GeekWire called “Mr. Robot Rewind.”

Uber is testing a subscription program that gives riders access to flat rates in Seattle and a few other cities; Microsoft's Xbox Onesie goes viral, but is it real?; and we go behind the scenes of the tech talent wars with Kerry Van Voris, director of talent at Madrona Venture Group in Seattle.

Uber is testing a subscription program that gives riders access to flat rates in Seattle and a few other cities; Microsoft's Xbox Onesie goes viral, but is it real?; and we go behind the scenes of the tech talent wars with Kerry Van Voris, director of talent at Madrona Venture Group in Seattle.