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Read the latest tech headlines from GeekWire [View this email in your browser](. [83c70c80-cefc-43e4-9cc7-74e048a5ee95.png]( November 23, 2017 [Top Stories]( [Find a Job]( [GeekWire Events]( [GeekWire 200]( [Become a Member]( GeekWire Gala, December 6 [Seattle’s holiday tradition! Tickets on sale now.]( Today's top stories [Holiday science book guide for 2017: Why not give them the cosmos for Christmas?]( By Alan Boyle Looking for a gift for a geek? At least one of the 16 books on this year's science reading list should strike a chord. [Lessons from the Bushmen: How this tech-free society could foreshadow our technological future]( By Clare McGrane Many people nowadays are concerned about the way technology is changing their lives. Sponsored Post [The Rise of the Experience Design Engineer™]( At [Level 11]( we embody the rise of the Experience Design Engineer™(XDE™). We employ design thinking to invent new brand experiences. Our focus on the practice of Digital Transformation has led us to our Experience Design Engineering™ methodology. Using out XDE™ methodology, we fundamentally change the way consumers engage, experience, and interact with your brand across every touchpoint in your connected ecosystem—physical, digital, in-store, online, mobile, wearable, Internet of Things—across the lifecycle of your customers. Provide your customers the experience they expect—Be Disruptive™ and learn how to achieve Digital Transformation by connecting with Level 11. Email us at info@level11.com [Intel Capital invests in IOTAS, a Portland-based ‘smart apartment’ startup]( By Taylor Soper IOTAS is raising more cash to build out its smart apartment technology platform. [Amazon poised to spend a record $7B on shipping this holiday quarter]( By Todd Bishop To fully appreciate the way online shopping is transforming the economy, look at how much Amazon spends to put packages on doorsteps around the world. 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[Remitly’s $115M investment round approved by regulators as startup expands mobile remittance platform]( By Taylor Soper NEWS BRIEF: Remitly’s $115 million investment round has officially been approved. [Amazon Web Services re-invents the holiday news dump with Symantec win]( By Tom Krazit As a steady stream of last-minute Thanksgiving shoppers poured into Whole Foods stores around the country Wednesday afternoon, Amazon Web Services chose what is traditionally the best time of the year to bury bad news to announce that it has won a significant amount of business away from its closest rival. [Judge blocks Seattle’s new income tax on the rich]( By Monica Nickelsburg Seattle’s new income tax on high earners hit its first legal roadblock Wednesday when King County Superior Court Judge John Ruhl struck down the law, ruling that it violates Washington state law. [Working Geek: When Seattle’s ’90s rock scene failed him, Geocaching’s Sean Boots found lasting success with the next hot ticket]( By Lisa Stiffler Back in the 1990s, Sean Boots thought he was on the path to a promising musical career. [Short-term rental startup Stay Alfred does biggest deal yet, leasing 10 floors in Nashville high-rise]( By Nat Levy Stay Alfred, the Spokane, Wash. startup that rents out downtown apartments and turns them into short-term rentals, has completed its biggest deal yet. [How this museum makes moldy machines work again, saving historic computers for the future]( By Frank Catalano It came from a garage in North Carolina. “We’d been looking for many years for an IBM 360,” Lath Carlson explained. 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