The investment allows the startup to scale its network of ground optical stations that can transmit large amounts of data quickly into space.

The King County Sexual Assault Resource Center’s increased caseload is straining its resources, Executive Director Mary Ellen Stone said.

Technology Association of Oregon President and CEO Skip Newberry talks with Eugene’s Mike Biglan about how the city’s tech scene has spurred his business.

Facebook’s Oculus team has more open jobs in Redmond than at Facebook’s headquarters and any office around the world.

An antimalarial drug developed in Portland has begun enrolling patients in its first in-human study. The investigational drug, invented at Portland State University and developed by PSU spinoff DesignMedix, is a modified form of chloroquine, an established antimalarial drug that kills the parasites once they have infected human red blood cells. Many strains of the parasites that cause the deadliest form of malaria have developed resistance to chloroquine, and the parasites can expel the drug before…

Twitch co-founder Justin Kan’s new startup has raised $65 million, gained several prominent new board members and made a small acquisition of its own, TechCrunch reports. Atrium LTS uses machine learning to automate tasks for the legal industry. The San Francisco-based company “digitizes legal documents and builds applications on top to speed up fundraising, commercial contracts, equity distribution and employment issues,” according to TechCrunch. Andreessen Horowitz led the latest round,…