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Sneak Peek: The technology behind the new Gates Foundation Visitor Center

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation opens its new Visitor Center in Seattle starting this weekend, giving the philanthropy a… Read More

Weight loss schemers hack ex-Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold’s Modern Cuisine Twitter account

Even former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold is susceptible to hacker attacks. Last night, we noticed that Myhrvold’s popular… Read More

Just in time for SOPA: Clever ‘Grassroutes’ service automates Congressional contacts

Sites around the web today are calling on users to contact their Congressional representatives to voice opposition to the Stop… Read More

snOMG! Where to go to keep up on Seattle’s snow storms

Tech news never sleeps, as John and Todd know all too well. But if you live in Seattle, chances are… Read More

With SOPA on the ropes, opponents taking their campaign to the streets

The controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) suffered a pair of blows over the weekend, as the White House spoke… Read More

CES: Battle of the iPad guitars, with a very timely patent

ION Audio’s Guitar Apprentice generated lots of attention from national press at the Consumer Electronics Show this week. It’s a guitar shell that holds an… Read More

CES Video: Intel’s gigantic interactive ‘lifeform simulator’

Posting from Las Vegas: OK, so this isn’t something you’re going to see in your living room anytime soon, but… Read More

CES: Sensors taking over the world, one tweet at a time

Posting from Las Vegas: People who attend the annual Consumer Electronics Show tend to focus a lot on specific products, but… Read More

What are you doing today? Filling out expense reports, of course

You’ve heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Well, here’s a new one for the holiday season that we can… Read More

Stop Online Piracy Act: An important step, or the worst Internet legislation ever?

Stephen Colbert rarely books two guests to (more or less) seriously debate hot topics, but that’s precisely how “The Colbert… Read More

Broadband on a plane: Intellectual Ventures has a better way coming in 2014

Is Nathan Myhrvold about to improve your in-flight broadband connection? That’s one of the promises of a new type of… Read More

Afternoon Radar: Apps for Spotify, beanies for IE, and a home for the 737 MAX

Our random roundup of interesting news and notes on a Wednesday afternoon … Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team is breaking out the… Read More

Q&A: Cameron Turtle, 21, Rhodes Scholar in bioengineering

Earlier this week, two University of Washington seniors were named Rhodes Scholars for 2012, making the UW the only public… Read More

BreakingNews goes overseas with new UK outpost

BreakingNews, the Seattle-based unit of msnbc.com responsible for BreakingNews.com and the @BreakingNews Twitter feed, made its first international expansion today, announcing… Read More

SC11: How this professor cleaned Watson’s clock

IBM’s Watson supercomputer, or at least a simulation of it, is in Seattle this week for the SC11 supercomputer conference.… Read More

TEDx Rainier: Live online from the University of Washington

TEDx Rainier is being held today at Kane Hall on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, the latest in… Read More

Watson in Seattle: Tips from Ken Jennings on beating IBM’s supercomputer

A scaled-down version of IBM’s Watson will be in Seattle starting this weekend for the SC11 supercomputer conference, giving attendees… Read More

B-1 bomber, headed our way, gets stuck on side of the road

You don’t see this on the road every day — and especially not on the side of it. A B-1… Read More

Alaska Airlines to test biofuel, powering commercial flights with used cooking oil

Your next cross-country flight, powered by the residue from your frying pan? Seattle-based Alaska Airlines will test biofuels on commercial… Read More

Which content app is leading off your mobile lineup?

If you were to make a mobile app that serves content to users, you’d probably think a lot about how… Read More

Meet the Awesome Foundation’s first Seattle grant winner

The Seattle chapter of the Awesome Foundation has awarded its first monthly, no-strings-attached $1,000 grant, officially bringing the organization’s mission… Read More

Best coffee shops for work? Our 15 essential ingredients

Seattle is swarming with coffee shops and geeks who love them. For many of us, they’re a fundamental part of… Read More

Better typing while walking, and other cool stuff from UW

OK, so maybe this isn’t the greatest invention for society, but purely as a technological trick, it’s pretty neat. A… Read More

Lesson from a Seattle bar: Beware your social media army

We don’t stop to think about it, but the same people who console us, congratulate us and like our la-di-da… Read More

Why KING TV is hosting a hackathon, with a $10k prize

Seattle’s KING-5 is doing something unusual later this month, or at least something unusual for a regional television station. It’s… Read More

Seattle’s Pioneer Square has tech, needs tribe

It’s happened a couple times now. I walk to my car from Zeitgeist Coffee or gaze up at the old brick… Read More

Tesla Motors to open new store at Bellevue Square mall

The high-end electric sports cars from Tesla Motors are a favorite among tech geeks. And given that love affair, what… Read More

UW’s Shwetak Patel wins MacArthur Genius Award, and $500,000 to go with it

Shwetak Patel, a 29-year-old University of Washington assistant professor who has figured out novel ways of using home electrical systems,… Read More

Poll: Do you accept Netflix’s apology?

Netflix CEO Reed Hastings apologized last night for the manner in which the company announced plans to split its streaming… Read More

Chart: How TV viewing habits are changing

The erosion of the traditional broadcast TV business has been well documented. But it is not deteriorating as fast as… Read More