It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was an age of Super Bowl victories and ridesharing disputes, an age of foolish statements about women… Read More
On this week’s GeekWire radio show, we’re counting down our top 10 picks from our most popular stories of the year. For this show, we analyzed the top posts of 2014 on GeekWire,… Read More
I’m finally a drone pilot — in the most unofficial sense, ever. Like thousands of others, I opened up a drone for Christmas on Thursday morning. “I thought you needed one… Read More
Did you see The Interview already? If you weren’t lucky enough to live in a city screening the film, perhaps you were one of the 900,000 torrent users who streamed… Read More
Microsoft and Sony are still working to repair their online servers, one day after hackers took down Xbox LIve and Playstation Network on Christmas Day. As of Friday morning, Xbox… Read More
Cerevast Therapeutics, a 5-year-old Redmond company that’s developing a novel approach for treating stroke patients with ultrasound, has raised $10 million in fresh funding, according to a filing with the SEC.… Read More
Amazon released its annual post-Christmas holiday sales rundown this morning — the one in which the company makes lots of fun comparisons to make its sales sound impressive, without giving any truly… Read More
Amazon.com met with success this holiday season getting customers to try a Prime membership, the program that offers free 2-day shipping, access to thousands of movies and TV shows and… Read More
Capacitive touch interfaces revolutionized touchscreen computing. Now the same technology is being used to create a JELL-O-based musical instrument. Ingenious, festive, jiggly and disgusting… Bingle Jells from redpepper on Vimeo.… Read More
People who received a new Xbox One or PS4 for Christmas and hoped to play online are likely having problems today. Both Xbox Live and Playstation Network have been experiencing outages throughout… Read More
The Internal Revenue Service is petitioning a federal court to compel a who’s who of former Microsoft executives — including longtime CEO Steve Ballmer and former Windows chief Jim Allchin — to… Read More
As Christmas Day approaches, parents everywhere are looking for ways to keep their kids satisfied while they wait for the inevitable arrival of presents. Thanks to a decades-old tradition and… Read More
As the fight to contain the Ebola outbreak wages on, several Seattle organizations are throwing their hats in the ring. Seattle hospitals have geared up to treat the disease, local… Read More
As people settle in for a long weekend of holiday entertainment, Amazon is hoping its new half-hour dramatic comedy will make the list. The company just released all 10 episodes… Read More
The next season of Game of Thrones is several excruciating months away, but CollegeHumor decided it would be fun to look at the series’ author as Santa. Let’s just say… Read More
A little more than a month ago, the Seahawks’ playoff chances didn’t look all that great as a squad with six wins and four losses. Now, expert data geeks are saying… Read More
Barnes & Noble has paid Pearson $27.7 million in cash and stock to buy back its stake in the company’s Nook e-reader business, giving the bookseller chain full control over… Read More
RPX Corporation purchased nearly 4,000 patents from the Rockstar Consortium, a patent holding entity that was formed by a number of tech giants to purchase the patents in question in… Read More
Are you hoping for some Beats headphones, the Nexus 5, or perhaps Cards Against Humanity for Christmas? According to the New York Times, this breakdown of every Google gift search… Read More
Wow, talk about the elusive toy search. A Frozen Lego set called “Elsa’s Sparkling Ice Castle” exists, and with a little luck you might be able to get one in… Read More
Football fans — get ready to see some NFL video clips in your Facebook stream. The Wall Street Journal reports that the social media giant and the NFL have inked… Read More
Who figured a comedy made by the South Park guys released in 2004 would be so popular? That’s exactly what’s happened since this Interview/North Korea/Sony hack love triangle. Amazon, Best Buy and… Read More
Update, 9:05 a.m. — Sony confirmed that it will stream “The Interview” to multiple video platforms today. See more at the bottom of this post. YouTube is helping Sony deliver… Read More
NanoString, a 12-year-old Seattle company whose tools help genetic researchers better analyze genes and molecules, is expanding its footprint in the South Lake Union neighborhood. The company announced today that… Read More
Microsoft and Google want you to be able use personal wi-fi hotspots at hotels, even though some hotel chains are petitioning the government to block those signals. In letters to… Read More
Another day, another legal problem for Uber. South Korean prosecutors indicted Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and an exec from Uber’s Korean business partner on Wednesday for operating “an illegal taxi service,” Yonhap… Read More
Anyone who’s attended a happy hour recognizes the inevitable “who’s watching what” conversation. Scandal viewers can’t believe the latest plot twist. Game of Thrones diehards commiserate over the latest untimely death. Doctor Who fans… Read More
It’s called “ballistic capture,” and not only does the name completely rock, but some new research suggests it might be the ideal way to get to Mars. In this recent article, Scientific American… Read More
Karan Goel is a University of Washington computer science student who designs, builds, and ships software with the goal of making the world a better place. He’s an undergrad who… Read More
Amazon has teamed up with online course provider EdX to offer $1,000 in Amazon Web Services credit to people who complete one of two classes from MIT on entrepreneurship. It’s… Read More
