Virtual reality is the new tech craze, but some fear the future it offers. Opponents conjure up a bleak world where people will waste away in headsets living virtual lives because they prefer the virtual world to the real...
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Microsoft employees break Guinness record for most people filling out a bracket together
Why Microsoft is asking people to make 3D scans of their faces in Seattle this weekend
People visiting the Ballard Locks, one of Seattle’s marvels of 20th Century engineering, were given a chance on Saturday to help...
Sources: Snapchat to open new Seattle engineering office with room for 50 people
Snapchat will set up its new engineering office across from Seattle’s Pike Place Market, in the same building where Facebook got its start in the city more than five...
62 richest people have as much as wealth as half of world’s population, report finds
The 62 richest people on the planet have as much wealth as the poorest half of the world’s population, according to a new report from Oxfam. The global organization, which strives to find solutions to end poverty, says the report only serves...
Amazon hiring 1,200 people at new fulfillment center in Seattle region
Amazon has started hiring to fill more than 1,200 new jobs at an upcoming fulfillment center in Kent., Wash., south of Seattle. It’s one of the company’s eighth-generation fulfillment centers, with advanced automation technologies, so it’s evidence that robots haven’t replaced humans yet. It’s the third robotics fulfillment center in western Washington, joining...
Secret Hitler, the bluffing game for people who hate bluffing games
Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage right here—and let us know what you think.
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FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler praises John Oliver’s net neutrality rant: ‘He got people interested’
LAS VEGAS — Speaking at CES 2016, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler talked about the dramatic impact that TV host John Oliver had on the net neutrality debate, praising the consumer response that it generated, despite the barbs...
Full text: Volkswagen CEO apologizes to the American people, promises big changes ahead
LAS VEGAS— Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess didn’t waste much time addressing the elephant in the room when he appeared at the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show on Tuesday evenig, tackling the diesel emissions scandal that plagued the German car maker last year. Diess,...
Nearly half of people who saw Star Wars want to re-watch, Fandango study says
If you determine the quality of a film by its “rewatchability” — “the ability to watch a movie repeatedly without becoming nauseated by it,” according to Urban Dictionary — then the...
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