GeekWire Podcast: Amazon’s real HQ2; Iowa caucus tech fallout; augmented reality at the ballpark

Right here’s what we’re speaking about this week on the GeekWire Podcast.

Amazon’s second headquarters could also be nearer to Seattle than you assume. Amazon says it plans to develop its presence in Bellevue, within the Seattle suburbs, to fifteen,000 staff within the subsequent few years. That could possibly be akin to the variety of staff working within the official HQ2 web site of Arlington, Va. Will the corporate discover a friendlier local weather within the ’burbs?

• Sure, Virginia, there may be an Amazon HQ2, but it surely’s truly 10 miles exterior of Seattle
• Amazon to carry 15,000 staff to Bellevue as speedy growth in Seattle-area metropolis continues

We additionally focus on how a case of billionaire envy might have pushed Amazon’s secretive drive for HQ2 and presumably broken its fame for openness.

• Bloomberg Information: Behind Amazon’s HQ2 Fiasco: Jeff Bezos Was Jealous of Elon Musk

What triggered the Iowa caucuses app fiasco and the way would possibly it affect an upcoming Seattle-area election that would be the first within the nation to be finished by way of a cellular app?

The failure of the app that was supposed to hurry up reporting of outcomes leaves questions in regards to the safety of high-tech voting in its wake. The difficulty shook the boldness of a public cautious of the tech trade and anxious about election safety.

• What triggered the Iowa app debacle, and why election tech leaders say it gained’t occur in Seattle

And at last, Seattle baseball followers will be capable of use augmented actuality software program to digitally resurrect a concrete stadium that wasn’t very fashionable when it was standing. We focus on what tech we’d actually prefer to see at T-Cell Park.

• Previous ballgame, new tech touches: Replace at Seattle’s T-Cell Park will provide AR view of Kingdome

With GeekWire’s Monica Nickelsburg and Kurt Schlosser. Audio enhancing and manufacturing by Curt Milton. Music by Daniel L.Okay. Caldwell.