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Highway Motorists Confuse Military Drone With UFO, Cause Twitter Frenzy and Traffic Jams

When this happened in Kansas in broad daylight, people gathered along the road to watch in awe what they thought could be a UFO transported by the military. Yesterday evening the same scene caused a frenzy in Washington DC’s highways. Traffic jams were reported by motorists on the Beltway and the I-270 in Maryland, who…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Jun 14

Hydrovolts Tap Canal Currents for 12 kW of Power Apiece

Irrigation canals are the blood vessels of agriculture, delivering water throughout America’s farmland. Pretty soon, they may well deliver a bit of electricity too, thanks to the Hydrovolt micro-generator. The Hydrovolt C2, designed and built by the same-named Washington state company, is a compact car-sized device that sits on a irrigation canal’s floor and utilizes…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola Jun 7

Study: People Instinctively Hold Robots Morally Accountable

“I’m sorry, but I never make mistakes like that,” says the robot, informing you that you’ve lost the game and won’t get the prize. How would you react if you knew the robot was actually wrong? The Human Interaction With Nature and Technological Systems (HINTS) Lab at the University of Washington, in Seattle, recently published…

Tech News Evan Ackerman - IEEE Spectrum Apr 27

Here’s What Happens When Our Nation’s Capital Is Nuked

Late last year, the government conducted a study to discern what happens if DC is hit with a 10-kiloton nuke. Would it be good, or would it be bad? The results are in, and surprise! It would be very, very bad. The study—”National Capital Region: Key Response Planning Factors for the Aftermath of Nuclear Terrorism”—simulates…

Tech News Sam Biddle Mar 14

Woman Sells Three-Year-Old Chicken McNugget for $8,000 On eBay

Rebekah Speight of Dakota City found this McDonald’s Chicken McNugget three years ago. She thought it looked like President George Washington and she put it in the freezer—as you do in these cases. Now, she’s trying to sell it to get 50 kids to summer camp. She put it on eBay last week. When the…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Mar 9

Octopus Wrestling, A Sport That Amounted To Cephalopod Home Invasion

Dive into murky water, thrust your hand into a hole, and return to the surface with with an octopus. Octopus wrestling sounds like a horribly rude form of aquatic home invasion. But let’s time travel back to the Pacific Northwest circa 1960, when this was a popular spectator sport. In octopus wrestling, points are awarded…

io9 Keith Veronese Feb 17

A One-Ton Metal Mammoth Made from Old Farm Equipment

Drop what you’re doing — this is more important. Oregon sculptor Jud Turner has built a life-sized model of a Columbia mammoth skeleton, he’s done it with 95% recycled materials (mostly old farming equipment and agricultural tools), and it’s probably the most jaw-droppingly bad-ass thing I’ve ever laid my eyes on. I’m sorry, did you…

io9 Robbie Gonzalez Jan 20

Americans Are So Fat, Washington State Ferries Have to Carry Less of Them

America’s gotten significantly heavier over the past twenty years and we should have seen this coming. First Kevin Smith gets booted off that flight, then that guy sues White Castle for not having plus-sized booths. Now, one of the nation’s largest ferry systems is obligated to carry fewer people on each trip. The rule change…

Health Andrew Tarantola Dec 22

1.2 Million Accounts Compromised in Washington Post Hack

If you’ve been looking for work in the Washington Post’s Jobs section, you might have one more thing to worry about. User IDs and e-mail addresses for 1.2 million accounts were compromised on June 27th and 28th. No passwords or other personal information was accessed. The hack was attributed to an “unauthorized third party,” though…

Privacy & Security Kyle Wagner Jul 7

Air Force Flies From Washington To Antarctica To Rescue Sick Worker

If you’re wondering about the cost of this medical evacuation, think high. And then probably think a bit higher. Flying 4,600 miles from Washington State to Antarctica, the C-17 cargo plane dodged ash-clouds and strapped on night-vision goggles to pick up the poorly contractor and drop him off at a hospital in New Zealand. Presumably…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jul 5

AmazonFresh Lets You Order Groceries From Your Windows Phone

If you live in Seattle and use a Windows Phone 7 handset, you’re one of about 40,000 people that can take advantage of Amazon’s new AmazonFresh mobile application [Windows Marketplace]. AmazonFresh is the retailer’s grocery delivery service. It’s only available in Seattle and only available on the Windows Phone platform as a native app. iPhone…

Tech News Kelly Jun 29

A real-life Deadpool is patrolling a small city in Washington state

Real superheroes usually create their own crime-fighting monikers, but one freelance do-gooder in Wenatchee, Washington (a.k.a. “The Apple Capital of the World”) has assumed the mantle of Marvel Comics’ “Merc With A Mouth,” the deranged assassin Deadpool. Malefactors beware. https://gizmodo.com/the-real-life-superheroes-of-salt-lake-city-are-charmin-5798467 Fortunately for the citizens of Wenatchee, their Deadpool is a mercenary of munificence who just…

Books & Comics Cyriaque Lamar May 28

The City with the Fastest Internet in the US Is…Olympia, Washington

I’ve never actually been but I hear the Pacific Northwest is beautiful. Apparently, there’s some really fast internet there too. An FCC report says that Olympia beats every US city in download speed at 21Mbps. That’s nearly double second place. Second place would be New York City and Seattle, who are both at 11.7Mbps. So…

Tech News Casey Chan May 26

Bambi Rescued By the Jaws of Life

What do you do when you find a baby deer trapped underneath a pile of rocks? Call your local firefighters, who extract the poor creature using the largest power tool they could find—the Jaws of Life. This heart-warming animal rescue took place in Bush Prairie, Washington where an unsuspecting fawn managed to get caught under…

Tech News Kelly May 24

Jailbreaking is Netting Nerds a Tidy Annual Salary

Jailbreaking phones has been legal for just under a year now, and unsurprisingly nerds are making good money off the back of time-poor, money-rich people. The Washington Post has reported on how one Washington student is earning $50,000 a year simply by jailbreaking and unlocking 30 – 40 iPhones a week. https://gizmodo.com/why-legal-iphone-unlocking-and-jailbreaking-doesnt-matt-5596671 Advertising on Craigslist…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Apr 8

The Electric Car March Continues Into Washington State’s Cascade Mountains

Washington State, no stranger to the environment or tourism in the Cascade Mountains, will soon install a number of EV charging stations in that region for the slew of electric vehicles that will inevitably vacation there alongside their green masters. The 480 V AC/DC EV charging stations, numbing just two or three over a 120-mile…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jan 16

Abraham Lincoln As You’ve Never Seen Him

Follow the 16th President of the United States from his meteoric rise to his untimely demise in stunning stereoscope! In 1839, when photography shouldered its way onto the world stage with a visual splendor unlike anything preceding it, Abraham Lincoln, at thirty, was nurturing a young political career as a third-term legislator in the Illinois…

Tech News Bob Zeller & John J. Richter Dec 21

Check if Your Bus is On Time Via QR Codes at DC Bus Stops

Starting today, DC area bus stops are being treated with a bit of augmented reality. Smartphone users can get up-to-the-minute status reports and traffic updates for the bus they’re waiting for by using a QR reading app. Convenient! [ReadWriteWeb]

Tech News Christina Bonnington Sep 3

“Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Iraq”: 22 Million Lost Bush White House Emails Recovered

According to the AP, soon-to-be-heroic technicians have uncovered 22 million email messages from the George W. Bush administration—far more than the Bush White House said they’d lost in the first place. That’s a lot of emails—but not as much data as you might first think. Berkeley estimated in 2003 the average email size to be…

Tech News Joel Johnson Dec 14

What Will Today’s Cities Look Like in the Future?

What will the New Yorks, Londons, and Tokyos of tomorrow look like? Will they be technological Edens, grim dystopias, or entirely obliterated? We look at science fiction’s take on the future of today’s cities to gauge our urban future. New York Los Angeles Chicago Washington, DC San Francisco Tokyo London Paris Additional Reporting by Caitlin…

io9 Lauren Davis Sep 16

Highway Motorists Confuse Military Drone With UFO, Cause Twitter Frenzy and Traffic Jams

Hydrovolts Tap Canal Currents for 12 kW of Power Apiece

Study: People Instinctively Hold Robots Morally Accountable

Here’s What Happens When Our Nation’s Capital Is Nuked

Woman Sells Three-Year-Old Chicken McNugget for $8,000 On eBay

Octopus Wrestling, A Sport That Amounted To Cephalopod Home Invasion

A One-Ton Metal Mammoth Made from Old Farm Equipment

Americans Are So Fat, Washington State Ferries Have to Carry Less of Them

1.2 Million Accounts Compromised in Washington Post Hack

Air Force Flies From Washington To Antarctica To Rescue Sick Worker

AmazonFresh Lets You Order Groceries From Your Windows Phone

A real-life Deadpool is patrolling a small city in Washington state

The City with the Fastest Internet in the US Is…Olympia, Washington

Bambi Rescued By the Jaws of Life

Jailbreaking is Netting Nerds a Tidy Annual Salary

The Electric Car March Continues Into Washington State’s Cascade Mountains

Abraham Lincoln As You’ve Never Seen Him

Check if Your Bus is On Time Via QR Codes at DC Bus Stops

“Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Iraq”: 22 Million Lost Bush White House Emails Recovered

What Will Today’s Cities Look Like in the Future?

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