GeekWire's Most-Read Stories of the Week

Catch up on the top tech stories from this past week. Here are the headlines that people have been reading on GeekWire. []( THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES [What a tool! Elon Musk shows off what SpaceX will use to build BFR spaceship]( To build a big frickin' spaceship, you need a big frickin' rack to put it on. And SpaceX has the rack. Billionaire CEO Elon Musk is showing it off in an Instagram post. [Zillow Group will start buying and selling homes, taking on Opendoor and expanding real estate footprint]( Zillow Group will start buying and selling homes for the first time later this month, expanding its real estate business and creating new competition for real estate agents and companies like Opendoor and OfferPad. [Secret footage of a hopscotch court in downtown Seattle proves a lot of us are still kids at heart]( Busy commuters might be a hop, skip, and a jump away from work but that doesn’t mean all of them will pass up the opportunity for some good clean fun. SPONSOR MESSAGE [Provide your customers the experience they expect—Be Disruptive™.]( [Google and Netflix team up on Kayenta, an open-source project for automated deployment monitoring]( A new open-source project from Google and Netflix aims to help other companies that want to modernize their application deployment practices but don’t exactly have the same budget and expertise to build their own solution. [Paul Allen’s hunt for historic shipwrecks scores another WWII find: the USS Helena]( Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's seagoing sleuths are reporting one more find in their quest to locate sunken military vessels from World War II. [Four gaming companies hit with online gambling lawsuits over ‘free-to-play’ casino games]( A spate of lawsuits filed over the last few days target online gaming companies, alleging their digital casino offerings constitute illegal gambling under Washington state law. SPONSORED: HOME OF THE WEEK [Canterbury Neighborhood Classic in Seattle’s Madison Park]( [How a Seattle startup is using blockchain and virtual reality to upend the global coffee market]( I’m sitting in the cafeteria of Building 25 on the sprawling Microsoft headquarters with an Oculus Rift headset strapped on my head. [Jeff Bezos spends rainy Seattle day whipping up pancakes for Ciara and Russell Wilson]( Just another rainy day in Seattle. So what to you do if you’re the richest person on the planet? [Microsoft is turning down some sales over AI ethics, top researcher Eric Horvitz says]( Concerns over the potential abuse of artificial intelligence technology have led Microsoft to cut off some of its customers, says Eric Horvitz, the director of Microsoft Research Labs. [Facebook faces Congress: 5 key takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s hearing]( The hearing focused on the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which a Republican-backed political strategy firm accessed data from up to 87 million unwitting Facebook users. Zuckerberg was also asked about the role Facebook played in attempts by the Russian government to interfere in the 2016 presidential election. [NanoRacks lays out vision for turning rockets into space outposts, starting with Independence-1]( Texas-based NanoRacks is fine-tuning and rebranding its concept for turning upper-stage rocket boosters into orbital outposts, starting with a habitat called Independence-1. [Starbucks picked an odd time to force WiFi customers to cough up personal data]( With all the sensitive news about Facebook and privacy hovering menacingly over the Internet this week, it seems an odd time for Starbucks to begin “forcing” consumers to register so they can connect to WiFi. [‘Depressing and inspiring’: Study finds 5% of Washington tech companies founded by women]( New research from the Washington Technology Industry Association shows how wide the gender gap is among the state’s startup founders. [Seattle moves forward with plan to bring Uber and Lyft regulations in line with taxis]( The Seattle City Council approved a resolution to explore new regulations for ride-hailing companies, like Uber and Lyft, Monday. [Video: Affordable housing activists protest at Amazon HQ, demanding higher taxes on corporations]( Amazon is getting used to fielding jabs from politicians. President Donald Trump spent most of last week berating the company. But this time, the Seattle tech giant is under attack from political organizers in its hometown. 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