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Win a night in Warren Buffett’s childhood home on Airbnb

Investor extraordinaire and billionaire Warren Buffett’s childhood home in Omaha is listed on Airbnb. And, if you’re a Berkshire Hathaway… Read More

Matthew McConaughey makes awesome video store ad with Jimmy Kimmel at SXSW

Jimmy Kimmel is at South by Southwest this week, and to get in the spirit of things, he decided to… Read More

Avvo vs. Lawdingo: Battle of the ads

In February, online legal services and Seattle-based company Avvo launched a new ad campaign focusing on humorous situations (aka, teen… Read More

San Fran man fakes suicide post on Facebook, finds himself detained for 70 hours

In an Internet experiment gone awry, a San Francisco man found himself detained in a mental health facility for about… Read More

Ashton Kutcher launches new VC fund with Mila Kunis in tow at SXSW

Does it seem like anybody who’s anybody is totally partying in Austin at SXSW right now? You’re right. This weekend,… Read More

Why our desire for sex — and that watch — will make Apple the first “trillion-dollar” brand

It’s only been a week since Apple unveiled the highly anticipated Apple Watch, and already there are impassioned pleas to… Read More

Anti-robot rally helps keep SXSW weird

“Keep Austin weird,” is the slogan of SXSW’s hometown. And, in keeping with the true spirit of Austin, it seems… Read More

Sir Mix-A-Lot gets his tech geek on at SXSW

It seems everyone makes a stop at South by Southwest these days, and Seattle native and tech geek Sir Mix-A-Lot… Read More

Expedia launches campaign featuring two doofuses to demystify travel for millennials

Local travel giant Expedia launched an online campaign Friday geared toward millennials to take the mystery out of online booking… Read More

Hilarious viral video pokes fun at how Apple designed the new Macbook

It’s Friday, and you deserve a good laugh. The video above should do the trick. YouTube user Armando Ferreira made… Read More

Watch Iron Man give a bionic arm to a one-armed kid, thanks in part to Microsoft’s Collective Project

Watching Iron Man himself, Robert Downey Jr., deliver a bionic arm to 7-year-old Alex Pring reminds us that science can… Read More

Ballard’s last stand? Edith Macefield’s little house fails to find a buyer

In a sad update to perhaps one of Seattle’s most wonderful legends of Old Ballard standing its ground against new… Read More

Why Meerkat and other live video apps are going to succeed

If you thought you’d seen the last of the social media app frenzies, this week proved you wrong. Meerkat, the… Read More

Jupiter’s moon Ganymede may be rocking more water than Earth

This week, scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope found that Jupiter’s largest moon, Ganymede, has as vast, salty ocean under… Read More

‘Star Wars’ Episode VIII and new stand-alone film coming in 2016 and 2017

As the world anxiously awaits The Force Awakens, more plans for Star Wars films were revealed this week. StarWars.com reported that… Read More

Flying soon? Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight declares Virgin the ‘Michael Jordan’ of airlines

It seems that the flying experience is increasingly spiraling into its own version of Dante’s nine layers of hell. If you… Read More

The price of Coors Light and other fails: Obama reads ‘Mean Tweets’ on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’

President Barack Obama read some of his “Mean Tweets” last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Enjoy a few of these… Read More

New study: Fishing for ‘likes’ via social is wrecking your life

Obsessing over the perfect Instagram shot or Facebook post is impacting your quality of life. That’s the new research out… Read More

Nielsen reports that the average American adult spends 11 hours per day on gadgets

Does it seem like all you do all day is stare at your computer, tablet or smartphone? According to a… Read More

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen live-streaming tour of Musashi battleship wreckage tonight

Last week, Paul Allen and his research team aboard the Octopus discovered the Musashi, one of the most significant battleships… Read More

Seattle women launch Kickstarter for science-inspired clothes for girls, tackling the ‘princess problem’

If you’re a parent, how many times have you been bummed out when shopping for your daughter, and you’re staring down… Read More

Brown Paper Tickets hosting ‘Office Concert’ today, bringing live music to the workplace

Here’s a workplace perk we can fully support: Live mini-concerts in the office. Brown Paper Tickets is hosting an “Office… Read More

The Force goes digital: Topps launches Card Trader app for over 1,000 ‘Star Wars’ cards

Star Wars card collectors will geek out over this: Topps released an app that includes a digital version of practically… Read More

Research shows that ‘Internet rage’ is a real thing now

We have enough annoyances in this age of convenience, but now we officially have one more to contend with: Internet… Read More

‘Amazon Prime for Women’ parody video calls out wage gap

Imagine only receiving 78 percent of what you ordered? That’s the idea behind this new parody video, which calls out… Read More

Epic ‘Star Wars’ painting on sale for $200K

Here’s one for the ages. San Francisco-based artist Robert Xavier Burden has spent 2,000 hours over the past two years to create… Read More

Alibaba’s Taobao site selling Apple Watch knockoffs in China

That didn’t take long. Alibaba’s Taobao site has smartwatches on sale that resemble the Apple Watch. According to BBC News, the… Read More

Melinda turned down Bill Gates the first time he asked her out

This is a funny how-we-got-together story: Melinda Gates turned Bill Gates down the first time he asked her out.… Read More

Cards Against Humanity is now online to play any time for free

Let’s say you’re feeling rowdy and want to get your friends together to play Cards Against Humanity. Except, it’s Tuesday… Read More

University of Washington engineering student builds crime-predicting model for Seattle

What does HBO’s classic crime drama The Wire and an Amazon Prime membership have to do with mapping crime in… Read More