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May 16, 2012, 12:45 PM

How to make a shower karaoke with your iPad

Have you heard this coming from your neighbor’s shower in the morning: “Just small town girl, livin’ in a lonely… Read More

May 15, 2012, 4:36 PM

‘The Bachelorette’: KOMO says tweetup boosts ratings

Can tweeting really boost ratings? If KOMO-TV’s tweetup event last night for The Bachelorette is any indication, then yes. The… Read More

May 10, 2012, 2:39 PM

Photo of the day: Gates and Buffett play ping pong

Now, here’s a pairing we’d love to see at GeekWire’s upcoming ping-pong tournament. At the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting earlier… Read More

May 10, 2012, 2:34 PM

Geek Made: Matthew Parker’s Amazing 10,000 Straw Project

Visitors to the Viking Union Gallery at Western Washington University are greeted with a dazzling display of 10,000 black and… Read More

May 10, 2012, 2:11 PM

Arizona man wins 20-minute space trip by walking around Seattle’s Space Needle halo

Gregory Schneider, a 28-year-old father of two from Arizona, beat out more than 50,000 applicants to win a trip to… Read More

May 3, 2012, 11:18 AM

Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ just sold for $119 million, and Paul Allen isn’t the buyer

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen owns sports teams, massive yachts and even his own island, though that San Juan island property… Read More

Apr 27, 2012, 1:36 PM

The latest influence score to obsess over: Klouchebag

If you say nothing else about social media, you can at least say it’s developing a sense of humor. Mean?… Read More

Apr 26, 2012, 1:41 PM

Free Klout trips a success, says Seattle tourism bureau

What’s the price of influence? It may just be a free trip to Seattle. While the digerati, including Wired in… Read More

Apr 17, 2012, 2:44 PM

Photos: Intuit uses downtown Seattle street as driving range

Some people had visions of duffers driving golf balls against the sides of skyscrapers after hearing about Intuit’s plans to… Read More

Apr 17, 2012, 12:43 PM

First piece of Seattle’s Space Shuttle Trainer arrives

Seattle’s Museum of Flight today unpacked the first piece of its new Space Shuttle Trainer, unveiling one of three engine… Read More

Apr 16, 2012, 4:36 PM

Downtown driving range: Intuit closing Seattle’s 2nd Avenue for golf stunt

Update: See this follow-up post with pictures from the event. Intuit, the company behind the Quicken financial software, is shutting… Read More

Apr 11, 2012, 1:01 AM

Comedian Jon Stewart rips Google glasses and Instagram’s $1B valuation

The weird and wild gyrations of the technology industry are certainly open to ridicule. And comedian Jon Stewart of The… Read More

Apr 4, 2012, 12:53 PM

Coming to Bravo: A reality TV show starring Cheezburger’s Ben Huh

“Huh?” That’s the working title of new reality TV show that Bravo announced today featuring none other than Ben Huh,… Read More

Mar 31, 2012, 11:39 PM

Photo Gallery: Weird scenes from Emerald City Comicon

It’s always the pleasantly strange things at Emerald City Comicon that catch my eye. A wizard eating a burrito. Darth… Read More

Mar 31, 2012, 3:45 PM

Comicon poll: Which superhero would you elect U.S. president?

Let’s take a pause for a moment from the heated rhetoric and political grandstanding coming out of the Barack Obama… Read More

Mar 30, 2012, 2:35 PM

Comedy superhero web series premieres at Seattle Comicon

Super Friends meets The Office? That, in a nutshell, is how Seattle production company Moon Bullet Studios describes its new… Read More

Mar 30, 2012, 12:50 PM

Seattle’s Space Needle soon to be inside Angry Birds Space

First, Angry Birds became part of the Space Needle. Now, the Space Needle is literally becoming part of Angry Birds.… Read More

Mar 30, 2012, 11:40 AM

Seattle’s first Science Fiction Film Festival starts ticket sales

With a kick-off Facebook post propelled by a tweet from major science-fiction fan Paul Allen, tickets have gone on sale… Read More

Mar 29, 2012, 11:53 AM

Weekend project: How to build a Star Wars TIE fighter

If you have a spare 30 hours and $300 this weekend, you may want to try a do-it-yourself project that’s… Read More

Mar 25, 2012, 10:47 PM

Paul Allen narrates as James Cameron navigates to the depths of the ocean floor

I never took Paul Allen — the billionaire software tycoon — for a citizen journalist. But that’s what the Microsoft… Read More

Mar 23, 2012, 1:45 PM

Video: Robot basketball and a new generation of geeks

Washington FIRST Robotics is holding its annual regional competition at the Century Link Events Center in Seattle today and Saturday,… Read More

Mar 23, 2012, 12:25 PM

Photo: Space Needle’s Angry Birds slingshot, final version

OK, now I get it. Here’s the end result of the “Angry Birds Space” promotion that Rovio and friends were… Read More

Mar 22, 2012, 3:54 PM

Rovio’s ‘Mighty Eagle’ explains Angry Birds stunt at Space Needle

A big thanks to the hundreds of you who tuned in for our impromptu live stream from the Angry Birds… Read More

Mar 17, 2012, 5:47 PM

Dorky’s Arcade: ‘THIS IS NOT CHUCKY CHEESE!!!’

What is the proper role of the arcade in modern society? Should it be a place for boozing adults, or… Read More

Mar 14, 2012, 3:20 PM

Master Chief, the ultimate Microsoft security guard

I spent some time today over at Microsoft’s Worldwide Public Safety Symposium, and spent some time inside the company’s Global Security… Read More

Mar 8, 2012, 2:11 PM

Geek Made: Graypants creates intricate design products with your garbage

The silver lining in a slow economy is that smart people get scrappy. With a knack for design and access… Read More

Mar 8, 2012, 12:19 PM

Video: Rock star Dave Dederer at the GeekWire Summit

At the conclusion of yesterday’s GeekWire Summit, we were honored to be joined by one of our favorite Seattle-based musicians,… Read More

Mar 5, 2012, 9:06 PM

Check out this awesome basketball-shooting robot

Forget about “Linsanity.” Check out this sharpshooting basketball robot, created by students at Seattle’s Aviation High School. The robot will… Read More

Feb 26, 2012, 5:26 PM

The difference between Apple and Microsoft, Google’s grub, and other quotes of the week

The best comments, quotes, tweets and random zingers we heard this week … “This sums up the difference between Apple… Read More

Feb 24, 2012, 9:23 AM

The condom of the future? Planned Parenthood offers high-tech rubber with QR code

Here’s a social media experiment that we didn’t see coming. Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest has begun distributing 55,000… Read More