Rare total solar eclipse captivates country | Testing Ofo, Seattle's latest bike sharing service | Microsoft claims speech recognition record

Read the latest tech headlines from GeekWire [View this email in your browser](. [83c70c80-cefc-43e4-9cc7-74e048a5ee95.png]( August 21, 2017 [Top Stories]( [Find a Job]( [GeekWire Events]( [GeekWire 200]( [Become a Member]( The GeekWire Summit, October 9-11 [Featuring Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson + more. Early bird tix on sale now.]( Today's top stories [Total eclipse dims the sun over the U.S., bringing delicious darkness]( By Alan Boyle The spectacle that skywatchers made years' worth of plans to see finally happened, darkening the sky during a total solar eclipse. [Eclipse Journal: Scenes from Seattle and path of totality in Oregon and Idaho]( By Alan Boyle GeekWire is documenting the 2017 solar eclipse from the Pacific Northwest, including our home base in Seattle and locations in the "Path of Totality" in Oregon. 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 [Hello, yellow bikes: Testing Ofo, the third bike-sharing service to hit Seattle’s streets]( By Taylor Soper Welcome to Seattle, yellow bikes. Beijing-based Ofo just launched its bike-sharing service in the Emerald City, joining other companies like Spin and LimeBike that have placed thousands of bicycles around town in recent weeks as part of a six-month pilot program that has made Seattle a key market for these services to prove themselves before rolling out nationally. [BetterDoctor partners with Washington state to bring tech solutions to health insurance exchange]( By Clare McGrane BetterDoctor, a San-Francisco-based startup, announced Monday that it will partner with the Washington Health Benefit Exchange to improve Washington Healthplanfinder, the state’s individual health insurance marketplace. Home of the Week - Sponsored Post [South End Home in Mercer Island]( Serenity, beauty, light and nature all describe this astonishing four bedroom home. Adjacent to Pioneer Park and minutes to downtown Seattle. Entry gardens and patios guide you to the entry with vaulted ceilings. Fabulous updated chef’s kitchen with granite countertops opens to the family room… [NFL expands esports play with new $400K ‘Madden NFL Club Championship’ for all 32 teams]( By Taylor Soper The NFL is getting more involved in esports. [This Bay Area startup is arming retailers with the technology to take on Amazon Go]( By Nat Levy Amazon is still tinkering with the checkout-free technology behind its Amazon Go retailer concept, but Palo Alto, Calif. [Microsoft claims new speech recognition record, achieving a super-human 5.1% error rate]( By Todd Bishop Microsoft's speech recognition technology has achieved a new industry record, reducing its error rate to 5.1 percent, matching the error rate of multiple human transcribers in a widely recognized accuracy test. [Solar eclipse traffic and weather: Oregon feels the calm before totality]( By Alan Boyle Traffic to Oregon's total eclipse zone has been surprisingly light over the past couple of days, but officials say they're not out of the woods yet. [NASA science aircraft using Seattle as base during mission to capture first video of eclipse]( By Kurt Schlosser The Museum of Flight in Seattle is no stranger to unique aircraft, and Monday’s total solar eclipse is attracting a special plane from NASA which will offer the first glimpse of the rare event off the coast of Oregon as it collects data. [Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 13, 2017]( By GeekWire See the technology stories that people were reading on GeekWire for the week of Aug. 13, 2017. [Pivot Health aims to disrupt healthcare hiring with new tech-fueled job matching platform]( By Clare McGrane Hiring and job searching are both difficult tasks — and in the healthcare world, those tasks are even harder. [Inside Funko’s funkalicious new HQ: Pop culture toymaker makes a bold statement in its hometown]( By Tim Ellis Pop culture toymaker Funko opened its brand new headquarters and flagship store to the public Saturday. [Paul Allen helps find lost wreckage of USS Indianapolis in Philippine Sea with latest sonar technology]( By Taylor Soper With the help of a remotely-operated vehicle and new historical information, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and a team of researchers have discovered a lost U.S. [Inside UW’s cutting-edge Clean Energy Testbeds, researchers seek breakthroughs to help the planet]( By Kurt Schlosser The students and technicians in white lab coats look like they could be testing and developing processes and prototypes for just about anything. 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