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Billions served: Bill Gates photographed standing in line for a burger at Dick’s Drive-In in Seattle

Update, Saturday, Jan. 19, 3:30 p.m.: This story has been updated to add comment from Paul Rich, who took the… Read More

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Can you live without a smartphone? This flip phone fan has done it for 13 years and will teach you how

When I first sat down with Michael Valeri, a Seattle data analyst who has been using a flip phone for… Read More

A baby dies, and a woman’s heartbreaking open letter implores tech companies to fix algorithms

We’re all freaked out, too frequently it seems, by the realization that our movements online are being watched and used… Read More

Washington state affirms rule requiring Facebook and Google to make political ad disclosures

Washington state officials doubled down on rules requiring companies like Facebook to disclose information about the political ads they sell,… Read More

Teens and social media: Study finds connections and support outweigh the drama and pressure

When it comes to teens and social media, it’s not all pressure and drama. But there is a fair amount… Read More

Geek of the Week: Teen photographer Gavriel Staloch builds a brand and a business as an Instagram influencer

Gavriel Staloch didn’t just develop an interest in photography at a young age, he did it in the age of… Read More

Real human interaction still preferred over texting, email and social media, according to survey

For every electronic device or method we use as humans, in an effort to communicate with other humans, the desire… Read More

Far from the Seattle it changed, Amazon finds new headquarters cities — and new backlash on Day 1

There go the neighborhoods. Whether they’re going in a good or bad direction depends on how you feel about Amazon,… Read More

Twitter teams up with Tagboard to help newscasters surface political tweets

Twitter is partnering with Seattle-area startup Tagboard to help video news producers highlight tweets tied to political issues and races… Read More

Hackers access up to 50M Facebook accounts exploiting ‘vulnerability’ in platform’s code

Hackers were able to access nearly 50 million Facebook accounts by exploiting a security vulnerability, the company said Friday. In… Read More

New Common Sense Media survey finds more positives than negatives in teen use of social media

Yes, teens use social media more often than ever. But the positives appear to outweigh the negatives, according to a… Read More

Google debunks Trump video alleging search giant didn’t promote his State of the Union address

Google is disputing President Trump’s insinuation that the company failed to promote the live stream for his State of the… Read More

Geek of the Week: ‘Vanishing Seattle’ creator Cynthia Brothers on why the city’s loss of ‘soul’ is about more than nostalgia

In celebrating the unique places that give Seattle its soul, Cynthia Brothers has taken on the painful task of documenting disappearing… Read More

Across Seattle, social media looks more like smoke signals as users share images of hazy skies

That’s not another blurry sunset photo or video from your friend on Facebook or Instagram, that’s August, again, in Seattle… Read More

Social media activists pressure Twitter to drop Alex Jones by blocking Fortune 500 companies

Earlier this year Jeff Reifman — a veteran of the Seattle tech industry — contacted Grab Your Wallet co-founder Shannon Coulter… Read More

Mr. Sulu goes social: ‘Star Trek’ vet George Takei beams up to Russell Wilson’s TraceMe fan app

Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson may be the founder of the TraceMe fan networking platform, but to hear George Takei… Read More

Facebook discovers coordinated political influence campaign ahead of midterm elections

Facebook has uncovered 32 pages and accounts working together to spread messaging tied to hot-button issues, the same tactics used… Read More

Facebook to end ad targeting that excludes ethnicities and religions in deal with Washington State AG

Facebook has agreed to stop allowing third-party advertisers to exclude ethnic and religious groups when targeting ads for housing, credit,… Read More

187,000 tweets later, New York Times reporter explains why she’s pulling back from ‘toxic’ Twitter

New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman has had enough of the “anger video game.” That’s how she describes what it’s… Read More

Is your private online content really private? Not if you do something stupid

It doesn’t matter if it’s on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest, or Twitter. The biggest, most preventable threat to the privacy of… Read More

As Twitter cracks down on fake followers, SparkToro launches free tool to measure influence more intelligently

Seattle entrepreneur Rand Fishkin thinks it’s “so darn frustrating” that brands still use the number of followers an account has… Read More

Put down your devices and be a kid while you still can: Advice for graduating 5th graders, and all of us

My 11-year-old son’s transition from elementary school to middle school will bring with it plenty of big changes. There will be… Read More

Instagram announces IGTV, a new standalone app for watching long-form vertical video

So much for all that effort I make to get people to turn their phones to landscape position when shooting… Read More

New research finds 95% of teens have access to a smartphone; 45% online ‘almost constantly’

Our kids are growing up behind the screens of their smartphones. What they’re looking at and how often is the… Read More

How I got caught up in a Presidential barring of ‘media,’ but not the media that now matters

As the arm reached across to block my entry, I looked up, surprised. “I have a conference badge,” I recall… Read More

Most Americans think tech giants should be regulated like banks but doubt the government can get it done, survey finds

Americans have a growing appetite for government regulation of big tech companies in the wake of Facebook’s recent scandals and… Read More

What’s with Jeff Bezos’ bubbly new social media persona?

For years, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has been on a dogged mission to dominate everything from e-commerce to space travel,… Read More

Bots are responsible for two-thirds of links shared on Twitter, Pew Research finds

The majority of links on Twitter are shared by bots, a term for accounts that use automation in place of… Read More

Congresswoman lists 6 things Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he doesn’t know, but really should

During two days of marathon testimony before Congress, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg managed to avoid answering some critical questions about… Read More

Facebook at Congress, Day 2: Watch Zuckerberg field questions on regulation, privacy, and elections

Mark Zuckerberg faces a second round of questioning from Congress Wednesday, with lawmakers challenging him on Facebook’s privacy scandals, disinformation… Read More