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Travelers would pick smartphone over toothbrush, deodorant or driver’s license, Expedia study finds

Imagine your perfect travel companion. Is it your partner? Your best friend? Someone out of the latest Sports Illustrated? Well,… Read More

Amazon’s next original movie will feature ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ star Adam Driver

Actor Adam Driver, fresh off his role as Kylo Ren in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” will put down his… Read More

Legal startup Avvo hopes to get tongues wagging with humorous new ad campaign

The comedy that comes with legal predicaments is fueling another new ad campaign from Avvo, the Seattle-based legal services directory and… Read More

Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Star Wars analysis: The Starship Enterprise would destroy the Millennium Falcon

Neil deGrasse Tyson is a smart man — perhaps too smart. After butting heads with Star Wars fans last month… Read More

Puppy Bowl fur will fly in VR with ‘360 degrees of cute’

For some, the heightened suspense of football season in January just means we’re that much closer to another Puppy Bowl.… Read More

Watch Seahawks and Vikings fans’ passionate reactions to that missed field goal

Seahawks and Vikings fans everywhere were stunned when Minnesota kicker Blair Walsh missed a field goal in the last minutes… Read More

These are the actors vying to play young Han Solo in ‘Star Wars’ spinoff

Before he was wooing princesses, chartering Jedis, and helping rebels save the galaxy, Han Solo had a few adventures of… Read More

Video inspired by ‘The Martian’ tackles real-life mystery: How to sleep in space

How do you get your Z’s in zero-G? Sleeping in space is one of the subjects tackled in a new video series from… Read More

A crumbling Space Needle? MTV’s ‘Shannara Chronicles’ is TV’s latest fictional vision of Seattle

Four decades ago, when author Terry Brooks published the first novel in his incredibly successful Shannara series, readers probably didn’t… Read More

One glorious GIF celebrates David Bowie in the best possible way

The death of David Bowie led to an outpouring of remembrances on social media on Monday as fans shared songs,… Read More

White House joins Snapchat to engage in ‘new and creative ways’

Taking aim at a demographic that may be too young to even vote, the White House on Monday announced that… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella selling Seattle-area home at asking price of $3.5M

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s home in Clyde Hill, Wash., was listed for sale this week at an asking price of $3.488… Read More

New REI app designed to take visitors deeper into national parks

Opting outside got a little more interesting this week as REI unveiled a new app designed to help users go deeper… Read More

Seahawks, Vikings to face frigid weather in state-of-the-art undergarments

Embed from Getty Images There’s sure to be some exposed skin on the big, bad football players who take the… Read More

Paul Allen adds $5.4M bungalow to his collection of Mercer Island properties

A couple weeks before Christmas, Paul Allen stuffed his stocking with yet another home on Mercer Island. The billionaire Microsoft… Read More

Here’s when HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 6 will premiere

Season six of HBO’s beloved fantasy series “Game of Thrones” will premiere April 24, HBO announced overnight. The highly anticipated… Read More

Living Ink updates invisible messages with morphing algae for Kickstarter project

Remember invisible ink? You could write a secret message with the stuff, watch your words disappear, then make them magically… Read More

NASA’s newest women astronauts get the Glamour treatment: Want to join them?

That’s one small step for NASA’s women astronauts, one giant leap for Glamour magazine. Women have had a hard time… Read More

Artist captures pure joy by combining ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ with ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’

Whatever childhood pleasures you got out of the return of Star Wars will surely be doubled when you see one… Read More

‘Super Trailer’ mashes together dozens of 2016 movie teases into one great preview

Now that you’ve seen “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” nine times, it’s time to start thinking about how you’re going… Read More

‘T-Mobile Arena’ in Vegas: Wireless carrier snags naming rights to glitzy new sports and entertainment venue

A new sports and entertainment venue set to open this spring in Las Vegas will be officially named T-Mobile Arena,… Read More

16 geeky new movies and TV shows to watch in 2016

It’s a good time to be a geek. The once-fringy sci-fi, fantasy, and comic genres have crossed over to the mainstream,… Read More

Washington state’s trailblazing new transgender policy you’ve probably never heard of

Washington state residents now have the freedom to use restrooms and locker rooms based on identity, rather than anatomy. On… Read More

‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ passes ‘Avatar’ as highest-grossing film ever in North America

That screaming you hear coming from a galaxy far, far away is the Na’vi. Starkiller Base just zapped Pandora. “Star… Read More

Bill and Melinda Gates don’t Whip or Nae Nae after eating Cocoa Puffs and Wheat Chex

Bill Gates says that he and his wife Melinda are interviewed dozens of times a year, but in a new blog… Read More

Who will win the Super Bowl? Microsoft Bing picks champ before NFL playoffs begin

The NFL Playoffs start this weekend, but before the first ball is even kicked off, Microsoft’s Bing Predicts is forecasting… Read More

Seahawks QB Russell Wilson achieves unique ‘Fame’ with his own comic book

Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson is certainly a superhero of sorts to football fans who have watched the young star develop… Read More

Yahoo cancels streaming service ‘Yahoo! Screen’

Yahoo! Screen, Yahoo’s jump into streaming video, is now gone. Yahoo! has confirmed via Variety that the service has seen its… Read More

‘The Martian VR Experience’ will take you back to the Red Planet and inside the popular film

Ridley Scott’s sci-fi adventure “The Martian” transported moviegoers to the Red Planet in 2015, and now, thanks to virtual reality technology,… Read More

CES 2016: Snapchat places massive logo on iconic Luxor casino in Vegas

LAS VEGAS — The Consumer Electronics Show is known for over-the-top marketing stunts. And the biggest and boldest we’ve seen… Read More