The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation opens its new Visitor Center in Seattle starting this weekend, giving the philanthropy a new opportunity to inform and engage the public in its… Read More
Even former Microsoft chief technology officer Nathan Myhrvold is susceptible to hacker attacks. Last night, we noticed that Myhrvold’s popular Modern Cuisine Twitter account, followed by more than 8,100 folks,… Read More
Sites around the web today are calling on users to contact their Congressional representatives to voice opposition to the Stop Online Piracy Act and the Protect IP Act. Under normal… Read More
Tech news never sleeps, as John and Todd know all too well. But if you live in Seattle, chances are there’s one really big news event you’re thinking about today,… Read More
The controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) suffered a pair of blows over the weekend, as the White House spoke out against the specifics of the bill and sponsors said they… Read More
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 iPad, helping people learn to play guitar using a special… Read More
Posting from Las Vegas: OK, so this isn’t something you’re going to see in your living room anytime soon, but the Intel booth here features a pretty dramatic demonstration of… Read More
Posting from Las Vegas: People who attend the annual Consumer Electronics Show tend to focus a lot on specific products, but the giant trade show can sometimes be more useful as… Read More
You’ve heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Well, here’s a new one for the holiday season that we can probably dub Expense Tuesday. A study released today by Concur,… Read More
Stephen Colbert rarely books two guests to (more or less) seriously debate hot topics, but that’s precisely how “The Colbert Report” tackled a particularly contentious geek topic late last week… Read More
Is Nathan Myhrvold about to improve your in-flight broadband connection? That’s one of the promises of a new type of antenna that Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures is developing, using synthetic substances… Read More
Our random roundup of interesting news and notes on a Wednesday afternoon … Microsoft’s Internet Explorer team is breaking out the blue beanies today on its Twitter account, its engineering team and even that… Read More
Earlier this week, two University of Washington seniors were named Rhodes Scholars for 2012, making the UW the only public university in the country with two students to receive the… Read More
BreakingNews, the Seattle-based unit of msnbc.com responsible for BreakingNews.com and the @BreakingNews Twitter feed, made its first international expansion today, announcing a new London-based team that will link to and tweet… Read More
IBM’s Watson supercomputer, or at least a simulation of it, is in Seattle this week for the SC11 supercomputer conference. I got a chance to stop by and see attendees… Read More
TEDx Rainier is being held today at Kane Hall on the University of Washington campus in Seattle, the latest in a series of independently organized events in the spirit of… Read More
A scaled-down version of IBM’s Watson will be in Seattle starting this weekend for the SC11 supercomputer conference, giving attendees a chance to match wits with the machine that made… Read More
You don’t see this on the road every day — and especially not on the side of it. A B-1 bomber fuselage being hauled to Boeing’s Renton, Wash., plant was… Read More
Your next cross-country flight, powered by the residue from your frying pan? Seattle-based Alaska Airlines will test biofuels on commercial flights starting this week, hoping to usher in a new,… Read More
If you were to make a mobile app that serves content to users, you’d probably think a lot about how you can get those users to spend more time using… Read More
The Seattle chapter of the Awesome Foundation has awarded its first monthly, no-strings-attached $1,000 grant, officially bringing the organization’s mission of supporting “awesomeness” to our region. And yes, after talking… Read More
Seattle is swarming with coffee shops and geeks who love them. For many of us, they’re a fundamental part of the infrastructure. But how do you know you’ve found a… Read More
OK, so maybe this isn’t the greatest invention for society, but purely as a technological trick, it’s pretty neat. A group from the University of Washington has figured out how… Read More
We don’t stop to think about it, but the same people who console us, congratulate us and like our la-di-da posts wherever we’ve built our social networks can also rise… Read More
Seattle’s KING-5 is doing something unusual later this month, or at least something unusual for a regional television station. It’s bringing together a bunch of developers, designers and news geeks… Read More
It’s happened a couple times now. I walk to my car from Zeitgeist Coffee or gaze up at the old brick at Occidental Park and think, “Why don’t I hang out… Read More
The high-end electric sports cars from Tesla Motors are a favorite among tech geeks. And given that love affair, what better spot to showcase the capabilities of the vehicles than… Read More
Shwetak Patel, a 29-year-old University of Washington assistant professor who has figured out novel ways of using home electrical systems, has been named a 2011 MacArthur Fellow. The prestigious prize,… Read More
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings apologized last night for the manner in which the company announced plans to split its streaming and DVD-by-mail services into separate offerings with a higher combined… Read More
The erosion of the traditional broadcast TV business has been well documented. But it is not deteriorating as fast as we thought. According to Ericcson’s TV & Video Consumer Trend… Read More
