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Read the latest tech headlines from GeekWire [View this email in your browser](. [83c70c80-cefc-43e4-9cc7-74e048a5ee95.png]( August 22, 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 [Amazon’s $13.7B acquisition of Whole Foods set for key shareholder vote this week]( By Nat Levy Amazon’s blockbuster deal to acquire Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion could surpass a major milestone this week. [AT&T will expand G.fast internet service to 22 markets, including Seattle and Portland]( By Taylor Soper Northwest folks living in apartments or condominiums have a new high-speed internet option. 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 [Science fiction has won the war: Best-selling author Greg Bear on the genre’s new ‘golden age’]( By Frank Catalano From the perspective of one of science fiction’s best-selling and longtime authors, the state of science fiction is golden. 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[Microsoft and Red Hat expand partnership with focus on containers and hybrid cloud]( By Tom Krazit Microsoft and Red Hat are expanding the parameters of a relationship first struck in 2015, bringing Microsoft Azure and SQL Server closer to Red Hat’s container orchestration product as the former rivals continue to make peace in the cloud. [Versive raises $12.7M to solve security problems using artificial intelligence]( By Tom Krazit If you’re working on a security startup in 2017, you’re more than likely applying artificial intelligence or machine learning techniques to automate threat detection and other time-consuming security tasks. [Skytap raises massive $45M funding round, led by Goldman Sachs, to move legacy apps to the cloud]( By Tom Krazit Seattle’s Skytap has raised a big funding round to help companies that never thought they’d be able to take advantage of cloud services move their applications out of their data centers without a massive overhaul. [AI greenhouse startup lands $6M from Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian, NFL legend Joe Montana and others]( By Todd Bishop A Seattle startup that makes artificial intelligence for commercial greenhouses and indoor farms — using machine learning and computer vision to track and predict individual plant health at a large scale — has raised $6 million from investors including Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian’s Initialized Capital, NFL legend Joe Montana’s Liquid 2 Ventures, Seattle’s 2nd Avenue Partners, Fuel Capital and others. [Nintendo opens pre-orders for $80 Super NES Classic Edition]( By Taylor Soper Good news for Nintendo fans who stayed up late on Monday. [Totality Awesome: Epic photos of the solar eclipse from an Idaho mountaintop]( By Kevin Lisota Epic solar eclipse photos from the top of Bald Mountain at the Sun Valley ski resort in Ketchum, Idaho. [Microsoft sells out pre-orders for new Xbox One X ‘Project Scorpio Edition’]( By Taylor Soper Gamers are excited about the “world’s most powerful console.” Microsoft on Sunday opened pre-orders for its new Xbox One X — specifically, the “Project Scorpio Edition,” an ode to the console’s original codename. [Bill Gates learns engineering like a 5-year-old in lesson from Washington’s Teacher of the Year]( By Kurt Schlosser Despite all of his success, Bill Gates is always eager to learn something new. [Did you miss totality? Relive the solar eclipse’s climax in this 3-minute video]( By Alan Boyle Some skywatchers spend thousands of dollars on telescopes, cameras and other hardware to document a solar eclipse. John E. Hoots did it with a Sony Handycam video camera. [House Speaker Paul Ryan to visit Boeing in Everett and discuss tax reform at employee town hall]( By Kurt Schlosser House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) is making a trip to the Pacific Northwest this week to lay out the Republican tax reform plan. [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. 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