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GeekWire Calendar Picks: Chris Pirillo’s inaugural ‘Galaxaar’ is a trove of geeky treasures

Chris Pirillo is a geek on a mission. More specifically, he’s a geek on a mission to create possibly the world’s biggest… Read More

Video: All-female marching band Filthy FemCorps gets groovy with Wonder Woman tribute at MoPop

Seattle’s Museum of Pop Culture was bubbling with geeky energy this weekend. On Saturday, the museum hosted an all-out party to… Read More

GeekWire Calendar Picks: Discover fossils at Dino Weekend; No Sleep Podcast live recording; and more

At some point, every kid wants to be a magnifying-glass-wielding archaeologist and spend time unearthing fossils and dinosaur skeletons. Next… Read More

Zillow at the ballpark: Over 850 employees headed to Mariners’ matinee

It’s a beautiful day for baseball in Seattle, and that’s a good thing for Zillow employees. The online real estate… 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

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

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SPECTRE tech: 7 gadgets for 007 (and the bad guys) in the new James Bond movie

What’s a James Bond movie without gadgets? “SPECTRE,” the latest film in the decades-long series, delivers way-out innovations that aren’t… Read More

How can you prepare for the Really Big One? 7 tips from PNW earthquake experts

If you’re still reeling from The New Yorker’s widely-read report on “The Really Big One,” today’s Reddit AMA with Northwest seismology… Read More

Seattle breaks 20 heat records in one year, new analysis shows

If you’ve spent the past few months cursing Seattle’s unwritten no-air-conditioning-rule, you’re not alone. Typically, the region’s cool, temperate climate… Read More

Netflix announces premiere dates for its first four original films

Netflix’s initial push into original programming quickly established it as a worthy competitor for established content creators, thanks to hit shows like… Read More

All this Seattle man wanted for his birthday was an Apple Watch, and here’s what he got

Terry Casey wanted an Apple Watch ever since the trendy wristwatch arrived on the scene a few months ago. But the retired… Read More

Hey, starving startups: These tech geeks built a new site to find free food and booze at events in town

KoduCare co-founder Amitai Rottem and Variat co-founder Andrew Crowell are like a lot of startup entrepreneurs. They don’t have much money,… Read More

Scenes from Emerald City Comicon: Big crowds, amazing cosplay

Thousands of superheroes, space travelers, elves, fairies, trolls, and the occasional Norse god packed into the Washington State Convention Center… Read More

Watch Will Smith and Jimmy Fallon use an iPad app to recreate ‘It Takes Two’

Will Smith, Jimmy Fallon, and an iPad app — who knew this combination could be so glorious? Smith was a… Read More

Where’s Santa? Ask Microsoft…or Google

As Christmas Day approaches, parents everywhere are looking for ways to keep their kids satisfied while they wait for the… Read More

YouTube tests new GIF creation tool, promising to flood the Internet with quippy pics

Finding the perfect animated response is about to get a lot easier. That’s because YouTube is quietly testing a new… Read More

Basketball great Charles Barkley says pro athletes make way more money than Microsofties

I woke up at 3:30 a.m. today, and couldn’t get back to sleep. So, as a sports nut, I tuned… Read More

My first time piloting a drone: A little fear, no crash landings

We’ve been writing a lot about drones, covering everything from small startups to the efforts of Amazon.com. But until Saturday,… Read More

Sandwich saviors? Paseo fans launch Kickstarter campaign to save beloved Seattle restaurant

We were as shocked as everyone when the beloved Cuban sandwich shop Paseo abruptly closed its doors this week, filing… Read More

Movember: OK, dudes, who’s got the geekiest mustache?

Who is master of the mustache? Do you have a Y chromosome? Look around, a bunch of us do. And… Read More

Gamergate: The Internet as a weapon of mass destruction

What is Gamergate? Most folks outside the games industry are understandably confused by what appears to be an internal dispute… Read More

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