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: GeekWire's Rooftop BBQ + Sounders Day returns on Tuesday, August 2nd: [Last chance to get tickets to the party of the summer!]( THIS WEEK'S TOP STORIES [Amazon sheds record 99k employees after overstaffing warehouses, will slow office hiring]( Amazon’s direct workforce declined by 99,000 employees from the first to the second quarter, to 1.52 million people, the largest sequential drop in its history, after overstaffing its warehouses to handle pandemic-driven demand. [Richard Tait, 1964-2022: ‘Cranium’ inventor and serial entrepreneur was ‘the ultimate dreamer’]( Richard Tait, the longtime Seattle entrepreneur who co-founded the wildly popular board game “Cranium” after spending 10 years at Microsoft, has died. [Topgolf opening its new tech-enabled sports and entertainment venue south of Seattle this week]( Topgolf is ready to swing into action south of Seattle at its latest tech-enabled golf facility, with an opening planned for Friday in Renton, Wash. SPONSOR MESSAGE [Hybrid workplaces present many challenges]( Companies returning to the office are wondering how they will: Manage daily occupancy, ensure employees have what they need, maintain a healthy and safe work environment, book workspaces and meeting rooms while determining the optimal workspace of tomorrow. Deskbee solves these concerns and much more…. That’s why over 300 global brands use Deskbee to manage their flexible workplaces. [Schedule a demo and see how Deskbee can help.]( [Can Amazon change healthcare? Experts sound off on tech giant’s $3.9B deal to buy One Medical]( Amazon’s planned $3.9 billion acquisition of One Medical will bring Amazon further into healthcare. [Amazon is shutting down its cloud storage service Amazon Drive]( Goodbye, Amazon Drive. Amazon sent emails out Friday morning to Amazon Drive users to notify them that the company is shutting down its cloud storage service on Dec. [High school students in Seattle educate community on how to identify and combat misinformation]( The world is overwhelmed with contradictory data and claims. SPONSORED: GEEK REAL ESTATE [Luxury New Construction Condominium in Kirkland]( [Seattle startup making it easier to manage single-family rental properties raises $16.7M]( The news: Latchel, a platform that facilitates maintenance requests from rental property tenants, raised $16.7 million.  The product: Founded in 2016, the Seattle-area startup works mostly with landlords and property management firms as a software platform to facilitate tenant requests, ranging from clogged toilets to assembling furniture. [Tech Moves: Amazon promotes two execs to SVP; Providence exec named Teladoc COO; and more]( — Amazon has promoted two executives to senior vice president: James Hamilton, a distinguished engineer at the company; and Drew Herdener, who leads worldwide communications. [He’s kind of a big dill: Bill Gates on his pickleball past, a sport he’s been playing more than 50 years]( Move over bridge and tennis, Bill Gates is touting a new leisure-time activity. [Chips and Science Act, an ‘historic’ investment in U.S. innovation and tech, goes to Biden for approval]( The U.S. Senate and House this week approved the Chips and Science Act, a bill authorizing $280 billion of spending to bolster innovation and tech hubs in America, including support for basic research and strengthening the manufacturing of semiconductor chips. [Amazon vet flips NFT model on its head, creates a climate friendly marketplace for digital art sales]( Well before cryptocurrencies and NFTs began to fizzle this spring, Carly Rector was already sour on their use for digital art sales. [Getty Images set to go public Monday after completing SPAC merger]( Seattle-based Getty Images will once again be a public company. [Full text: Microsoft’s multi-cloud vision would keep Amazon from running away with federal deals]( A draft document circulated by Microsoft calls for the use of multiple cloud vendors as “the de facto standard for US Government Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) cloud procurements.” First reported by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, the company’s “Multi-cloud Vision Statement and Principles” make the case that such a policy would improve competition, reduce costs, and foster innovation. [Seattle startup reveals predictive home maintenance service with once-a-week deals]( A new Seattle startup wants you to put down the hammer, rake or whatever other tool you might use to do work at home, and instead pick up your phone and send a text. [Microsoft demos clean energy breakthrough for data centers that keep the internet humming]( Data centers packed with millions of servers provide the backbone of the internet, dishing up everything from cat videos to financial transactions to online gaming when and where you need them. 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