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March Madness for Robots (Video)

Who cares about basketball when there are robots to watch? The Seattle regionals for the FIRST high-school robotics competition start… Read More

Nuclear fallout? Skip the tin foil, grab a cookie sheet

Seattle startup guru Mike Koss of Startpad.org was watching news coverage of the crisis in Japan when he noticed people… Read More

Jeopardy Fail? Contestants unable to identify FailBlog on game show

Maybe Alex Trebek is a secret FailBlog fanatic. The wildly popular humor Web site — developed by the folks at… Read More

Surgery meets social media: Robotic procedure to be webcast, tweeted

Yes, even the operating room has a hash tag now. Aiming to promote its latest robot-assisted surgical technology, Swedish Orthopedic… Read More

Photo: What better way to celebrate ‘Pi Day’ than a pie eating contest

It’s national Pi Day, which means geeks and math nerds everywhere are celebrating the beauty of the mathematical constant of… Read More

Cool Web Site of the Week: Seattle All Stairs

Some people spend their time knitting, reading books or playing sports. Susan Ott Ralph and David Ralph like staircases. Public… Read More

Seattle Jewish Film Festival goes high-tech with QR Codes

The 16th annual Seattle Jewish Film Festival kicked off this weekend, with more than 30 films on the docket. Attendees… Read More

Evolution of the anti-iPhone shirt, at Microsoft’s hometown Goodwill

For pure tech t-shirt awesomeness, there’s nothing quite like the Goodwill store near Microsoft’s Redmond campus. This is the place… Read More

Dancing with Drones: UW students and autonomous aircraft

As part of their Embedded Systems 472 class at the University of Washington this quarter, electrical engineering students were challenged… Read More

Video: The soda fountain of the future debuts at Taco Time

It’s sleek. It’s cool. And people from all over the city are traveling to see it (and grab a taste… Read More

Live video: Space Shuttle Discovery set for final landing

This live feed from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida should get a lot more interesting a few minutes before… Read More

Abstaining from tech: Lessons from a time warp to 1985

Erika Bitzer, 30, an account director in the Seattle office of the Weber Shandwick public-relations firm, was perhaps the perfect… Read More

William Shatner on his musical classics, Capt. Kirk’s death scene, and living an adventurous life

At this point, you couldn’t blame William Shatner if he were to just tune everyone out and phone it in… Read More

Photo Gallery: The characters of Emerald City Comicon

I’ve never seen so many geeks in one place. Emerald City Comicon — held this weekend at the Washington State… Read More

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