More tech giants join legal fight vs. Trump | Uber's flying car project might just take off | Intel drone stunt illuminates Gaga’s Super Bowl show

Read the latest tech headlines from GeekWire [View this email in your browser](. February 6, 2017 [Top Stories]( [Find a Job]( [GeekWire Events]( [GeekWire 200]( [Become a Member]( Early-bird tickets on sale now for the GeekWire Bash! [Seattle’s biggest, geekiest tech party on March 15. Get your tickets today!]( Today's top stories [NASA gives its nod to NanoRacks for space station’s first commercial portal]( By Alan Boyle NASA has accepted a plan from NanoRacks to provide the International Space Station with an air lock that would serve as its first commercial portal. [‘AWS on premises’ provider Stratoscale acquires database-as-a-service company Tesora]( By Jillian Stampher Cloud infrastructure startup Stratoscale is expanding its database services platform. 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Home of the Week - Sponsored Post [Bainbridge Island Oasis Offers the Best of the Pacific Northwest]( Inviting shingled farmhouse in a magical island oasis. Located in a quiet neighborhood of fine homes, you can enjoy an easy and quick commute to the Seattle ferry and a private, restful place to call home. This home offers an office/guest studio with full bath over the garage in addition to three spacious… [Uber’s flying car project is taking off; company hires NASA engineer for Uber Elevate team]( By Jillian Stampher Uber’s vision for a flying car just got a lot clearer. [New court filing: Google, Uber, Microsoft and nearly 100 others back Washington state case vs. Trump]( By Monica Nickelsburg Nearly 100 companies — including Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, Uber and other big technology brands — filed a brief overnight with the U.S. [Amazon’s Super Bowl ad features a Prime Air drone delivery ordered with Alexa]( By Taylor Soper Amazon again dropped the big bucks for Super Bowl advertising time to promote its digital voice assistant. [Super Bowl drones: Intel uses 300 ‘quadcopters’ for halftime light show with Lady Gaga]( By Taylor Soper Update: The drones — 300 of them — were indeed from Intel. [T-Mobile goes on Super Bowl marketing blitz with four ads during the big game]( By Taylor Soper You’ll see plenty of T-Mobile during the Super Bowl on Sunday. [Elon Musk stirs up an epic tweetstorm over Donald Trump and America’s legal system]( By Alan Boyle Tech wizard Elon Musk's fans hang on his every word when he tweets about SpaceX or Tesla – or about President Donald Trump and America's legal system. [Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa offers a Super Bowl prediction — and it may surprise you]( By Taylor Soper Alexa must like underdogs. Amazon’s virtual assistant, which powers the company’s Echo devices, is predicting a Falcons victory in today’s Super Bowl — despite Atlanta being a 3-point underdog to New England. [Watch: Google’s Super Bowl commercial stars Google Home, its voice-activated smart speaker]( By Taylor Soper Millions of people watching Super Bowl 51 today will get a taste of Google Home. [Watch: ‘So-called judge’ hears arguments and rules on President Trump’s immigration order]( By Todd Bishop A federal judge’s ruling on Friday, temporarily suspending President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, is having an impact across the nation this weekend as some people who were blocked from entering the United States last week are once again able to travel to the country. [Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 29, 2017]( By GeekWire See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Jan. 29, 2017. [Elon Musk sees ‘progress’ on immigration after White House meeting with Trump]( By Alan Boyle After sitting in on a business advisory meeting with President Donald Trump, billionaire Elon Musk says "there will be progress" on immigration policy. [Federal judge’s ruling doesn’t block this key part of Trump’s immigration order]( By Monica Nickelsburg Critics of President Trump’s immigration policy celebrated Washington state’s victory Friday, after a federal judge granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO), immediately halting implementation of key elements of the executive order’s travel ban. [Microsoft tries to reinvent sports autographs, but can a digital signature replace good old-fashioned ink?]( By Taylor Soper Microsoft wants to change how sports fans think about autographs. 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