GeekWire Podcast: Bezos fields criticism despite $10B climate pledge; Seattle braces for The Big One; and more

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

PBS’s Frontline profiled the Amazon empire and painted a sophisticated image of unrelenting ambition. Frontline spent a 12 months analyzing Amazon’s affect on commerce, expertise and society, and landed interviews with a number of present executives and former workers. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos didn’t sit for an interview, nevertheless. Although the documentary didn’t cowl a lot new floor, it did present a putting narrative, highlighting new voices and views.

• The definitive account of Amazon’s perilous ambition: Key scenes from PBS’s epic investigation
• Watch: Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos

Talking of Bezos, he made an enormous splash this week when he introduced plans to donate $10 billion to nonprofits combating local weather change. We focus on the Bezos Earth Fund, and the way consultants in philanthropy and local weather change are reacting to it. Plus, Sen. Bernie Sanders takes a swing at tech fortunes throughout a marketing campaign cease within the Seattle space.

• Jeff Bezos launches $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund, kicking off his personal effort to battle local weather change
• Jeff Bezos needs to curb local weather change through $10B fund — however is cash his strongest instrument?
• Bernie Sanders takes on the ‘billionaire class’ at rally close to Seattle, residence to Jeff Bezos and Invoice Gates

Lastly, we caught up with our resident house and science geek, Alan Boyle, to debate the mega-earthquake predicted to hit the Seattle area. Boyle additionally caught us up on how technologists are occupied with what occurs to our stays — bodily and digital — after we die.

• Earthquake consultants lay out newest outlook for the ‘Actually Massive One’ that’ll hit Seattle
• Tech after loss of life: Researchers work on new methods to deal with your stays, within the flesh and on-line

With GeekWire’s Taylor Soper and Alan Boyle. Audio enhancing and manufacturing by Curt Milton. Music by Daniel L.Okay. Caldwell.