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. ADVERTISEMENT [GeekWire]( SPONSOR MESSAGE: 2020 GeekWire Summit: Hear from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Co-chair Bill Gates, Expedia CEO Peter Kern, Microsoft Chief Product Officer Panos Panay, Dreambox Learning CEO Jessie Woolley-Wilson and other tech and business leaders: [Learn more and register for tickets today!]( THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES [What gives Bill Gates hope about the world, and one thing he says we should all do right now]( The COVID-19 pandemic is a “gigantic setback” for the world. [One month with the Surface Duo: What it’s really like to use Microsoft’s dual-screen Android device]( This is very different, and pretty cool. That thought hit me while reading the pages of an e-book across two screens; taking notes on a Spanish lesson on one screen with a language app open on the other; watching a YouTube piano tutorial with the digital sheet music beneath it; and reading an email on one screen while still scrolling through my inbox. [T-Mobile CEO: Apple iPhone 12 launch marks ‘firing gun’ for 5G and T-Mobile leads the race]( T-Mobile didn’t make it into Apple’s big iPhone event today. 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[AWS, Microsoft, Uber engineering vets raise $20M from top VCs for Seattle startup Temporal]( A Seattle startup led by cloud computing veterans has quietly attracted big-name users and top venture capital firms as it aims to help improve developer productivity. SPONSORED: GEEK HOME OF THE DAY [Beautiful Contemporary Home in West Seattle]( [Virtual primary care startup 98point6 raises $118M as pandemic sparks demand for digital health tech]( Demand is through the roof for Seattle telemedicine startup 98point6. [Apple’s devices event: Tech giant unveils new iPhone 12 with 5G; HomePod Mini; and more]( Apple showed off its new iPhone, the first with 5G, along with a new HomePod Mini device at its much-anticipated event on Tuesday. [Longterm vision for Seattle-Portland-Vancouver mega-region will require a ‘consensus on growth’]( Traffic as congested as Los Angeles? Housing as unaffordable as the Bay Area or New York? [Indie booksellers feeling ‘Boxed Out’ by Amazon respond with campaign targeting tech giant]( Independent bookstores across the country put out the unwelcome mat for Amazon and the tech giant’s Prime Day shopping extravaganza this week, trying to call attention to the dire straits small businesses are facing during the pandemic. [He moved to Seattle a year ago and has already built a tool to help local businesses battle Amazon]( When Jonathan Sandals moved to Seattle from Montreal in 2019, he fell in love with his new city, and the Ballard neighborhood where he settled, because he was taking everything in with fresh eyes and appreciated the unique character and ideas around him. [Fitness tech company JAXJOX raises $10M as it gets ready to ship AI-enabled workout system]( JAXJOX, the Redmond, Wash.-based fitness technology company, has raised $10 million in a new funding round to help pay for the research and development of its signature InteractiveStudio workout equipment. [Full steam ahead as Fred Hutch moves into historic building and expands Seattle campus]( It’s full steam ahead for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center as the Seattle institution is now fully occupying the historic Steam Plant building as part of an expansion of its South Lake Union campus. [Experts foresee triumphs and tragedies in worldwide quest for COVID-19 vaccine]( There's good news — and not-so-good news — about the multibillion-dollar effort to develop vaccines for COVID-19, experts said at the GeekWire Summit. [‘Amazon Augmented Reality’ app turns company’s cardboard boxes into interactive experiences]( Amazon has found another way to keep shoppers busy with the boxes that show up at their door. GEEKWORK: TODAY'S TECH JOBS - [Libro.fm: Senior Android Developer]( - [Libro.fm: Senior iOS Developer]( - [INRIX: Strategy Analyst]( - [INRIX: Senior Java Data Engineer]( [FIND MORE JOBS ON GEEKWORK]( [HIRING? 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