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GeekWire Radio: Grading ‘Star Wars’, favorite stories of 2015, and New Year’s tech resolutions
How would you grade “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”? We offer our opinions of the blockbuster film in this special New Year’s episode of the GeekWire radio show and podcast. Here are the results from our poll on Twitter. Have you...
Customers complain as Uber prices surge near 10X on New Years Eve
Uber prices neared 10 times the normal rate on New Years Eve and early this morning. “Surge pricing,” a controversial technique used by Uber and Lyft that increases the price of a ride when demand is high, certainly went into effect on Thursday evening as some customers paid hundreds...
Seattle software pioneer Doug Walker dies in New Year’s eve avalanche on Granite Mountain
Doug Walker, who co-founded the Seattle software company WRQ in 1981 and later went on to become one of the city’s leading philanthropists, died in a hiking accient on Granite Mountain on New...
How to compute fireworks: The technology behind the Space Needle’s epic New Year’s show
While pyrotechnics may be imagined and installed by human beings, the design and execution of the Space Needle’s New Year’s fireworks extravaganza in Seattle spends most of its life inside a computer. Well ahead of the New Year’s show, Alberto Navarro, the architect of...
Seattle Yellow Cab expects busier New Years Eve despite competition from Uber, Lyft
As ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft implement “surge pricing” during what will surely be a busy New Years Eve on Thursday night, Seattle Yellow Cab hopes to attract customers with its updated smartphone app. Seattle Yellow Cab’s app, which...
Sex! Brains! Ancient mysteries! This year’s Weird Science Awards have ’em all
When the calendar turns, it’s time to reflect on the biggest sensations of the past year: Time’s Person of the Year, AP’s Top News Story, Hollywood’s Oscar picks — and, of course, the Weirdies. The Weirdies? Since 2008, my annual Weird...
Better with age: The year’s best video game DLC
Not all that long ago, you used to be able to make a list of the year’s best games, confident that those titles would remain relatively static as time went on. That’s not the case anymore. With downloadable content becoming the norm rather than the exception, some of the best games of 2015 actually came out in previous years and were merely updated with...
For the first time in 27 years, U.S. produces plutonium-238 for powering space missions
After a 27-year gap, the U.S. Department of Energy has resumed producing plutonium-238, the radioactive fuel that powers...
“Decksploration”: T.I.M.E Stories’ card-driven RPG is one of the year’s best board 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.
I knew T.I.M.E Stories would differ from standard board game fare when I sat down to my first play and saw that one...
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