What would happen to the divisions in our country if we set aside our phones, and our assumptions, and truly tried to understand people who are different from us? Mónica… Read More
— Cybersecurity giant Tanium appointed Marc Levine as its new CFO, effective May 17. He was most recently CFO at RSA Security. Levine previously was CFO at C3.ai, Athenahealth, and… Read More
Seattle is growing — or perhaps a better term is exploding — at an almost startling rate. An average of 263 people are moving to the region each day, and Seattle’s skyline is dotted with… Read More
Seattle’s only street paper is reinventing itself with an app. Real Change, the non-profit $2 weekly sold by street vendors who struggle with poverty and often homelessness, today launched a… Read More
When you can’t leave your bed, you can’t explore the world. But what if you could? The Seattle Art Museum is testing technology that would allow people to tour its… Read More
If you thought you’d seen the last of the social media app frenzies, this week proved you wrong. Meerkat, the app that lets you live stream on Twitter with a… Read More
The geekiest art opening of the year is coming to the Bryan Ohno Gallery in Seattle’s International District Thursday night. “In Lego, We Connect” will feature the work of three… Read More
There are ways to email people so things get done, and ways to email people so things stall, backtrack or get awkwardly ignored forever. The productive emailer accepts one thing… Read More
For computer science to grow, its most persistent stereotype has to fade. That’s the takeaway from the work of a group of University of Washington researchers that’s showing just how easily… Read More
Last week I asked people on Facebook a question. “If you had to sit on a bench in a park alone for a half hour without your phone, or tablet,… Read More
To bad networkers, it’s all “me, me, me.” We see them. We want to escape them. We hope we act nothing like them. But we all probably do. The art… Read More
Of all the ways we think using social media is stressing us out, only one is real, according to a new study by the Pew Internet Project. Not the fear… Read More
When I showed my brother my new extendable Bluetooth-enabled smartphone camera pole thingy over the holidays, I hoped he’d think it was cool. “Oh, you mean a selfie stick?” he… Read More
Last week I got one of those studies in my inbox that tells you the obvious. A lot of people aren’t going to movie theaters. But one of the reasons made… Read More
The last time I wrote about the temptation to use my phone while I drive, one solution I considered was to banish my phone to the trunk. Today, that’s not… Read More
It was going to be a quick trip to the Eastside on a weekend. Then traffic stopped, my husband scowled, and I looked at my phone, sitting idle in the… Read More
When New York Times media critic David Carr turned his attention to Twitch this week after Amazon’s $970 million cash acquisition of the video game streaming network, he asked what… Read More
You haven’t shared anything really secret on Secret, right? Good. Because a Seattle hacker has outed the popular anonymous social media app as one lousy confidante. Ben Caudill and Bryan… Read More
The people have spoken, and the people love the ducks. “It’s a pleasing painting, but it’s just a group of ducks,” the Frye Art Museum’s Chelsea Werner-Jatzke said about the… Read More
Considering this week’s events in Ferguson, Missouri, isn’t it smartest for the public to tweet more real-time police activity in some emergencies, not less? A coalition of local law enforcement agencies, including… Read More
If there’s anything Seattle does better than anyone, it’s coffee shops. This city’s unbeatable selection of warm, friendly spaces to drop in, meet up and get things done is one… Read More
Take the elevator to the top and enjoy the view. That’s been the main attraction at Seattle’s iconic Space Needle for pretty much all of its 52-year history. The Needle hopes to change that starting this… Read More
Ever wanted to see yourself as a superhero action figure? A Seattle company is making it possible thanks to two Zcorp 450 full-color 3D printers, a successful Kickstarter campaign and one… Read More
Sometimes it’s smart to share an idea, and sometimes it’s smarter to keep it quiet. Know the difference? Commanding the toggle between public and private thinking is a big deal… Read More
Everyone can write and no one can stay focused on writing. It’s a quirk of our connected universe that drives me nuts. Set out to compose anything longer than a… Read More
“What do you do?” The classic get-to-know-you question is designed to extract information about your job, that thing you spend a lot of your time doing. But it doesn’t work… Read More
The Weyerhauser Corporate Headquarters in Federal Way has earned awards for its architecture, interior design and energy conservation. It’s a “gorgeous, gorgeous” building, Scott Wyatt tells me. There’s just one… Read More
The New York Times ran a fantastic story last week about the struggles companies face in a digital world. Its own. Someone from the world’s most powerful news organization leaked… Read More
I heard it last week at the GeekWire Awards, like I hear it at almost every tech networking event ever. How are things going at your startup? Oh, they’re going… Read More
Want to make a bigger impact as a woman working in technology? Try what Tami Reller once did — talk louder. The tip was one of several shared by five accomplished… Read More