Magic Ate Ball

AI Will Change How We Grocery Shop, but Not the Way You Think

An expert offers her predictions of what’s next for local food stores.

09/15/2025 By Naomi Tomky

Oops

Here Are Some of Microsoft’s Most Memorably Forgettable Products

Where would we be without the EasyBall?

05/05/2025 By Adam Willems

Exit Velocity

The World’s Most Cutting-Edge Baseball Laboratory Is Hiding in a Kent Warehouse

Why are big league superstars making an annual offseason pilgrimage to the Seattle suburbs?

05/03/2024 By Eric Nusbaum

Private Eyes

Should Couples Track Each Others' Cell Phones?

Convenience meets surveillance in a new relationship trend.

02/07/2024 By Allison Williams

Year in Review

Seattle Met's 5 Most-Read Longform Stories of 2023

These are the features our readers loved this year.

12/26/2023 By Seattle Met Staff

Essay

The Quiet Part Loud

The toll of my husband's hearing loss can be invisible—even to me. But a new wave of tech could change everything

12/05/2023 By Allecia Vermillion Illustrations by Lincoln Agnew

Beep Boop

The Hospital Robots among Us

Are delivery droids the solution to staff shortages in health care? Some local hospitals are trying to find out.

10/30/2023 By Eric Nusbaum

Feature

Clouded Judgment: How a Former Amazon Employee Hacked Capital One

Paige Thompson engineered one of the biggest data breaches in history from her bedroom in South Seattle. Her trial exposed us all.

04/04/2023 By Benjamin Cassidy

Tech Talk

This Article Was Written by a Human

At the advent of the AI age, should creatives see the writing in the code?

03/08/2023 By Angela Cabotaje

Year in Review

Seattle Met's 5 Most-Read Longform Stories of 2022

The longreads that attracted the most eyeballs this year.

12/27/2022 By Seattle Met Staff

This Month in Seattle Tech

AI Art Reimagines Seattle

The memes are fun. But have we wrapped our heads around just how quickly artificial intelligence is learning?

08/31/2022 By Benjamin Cassidy

Feature

The Twisted Life of Clippy

In the ’90s, Microsoft created an annoying paperclip that it quickly retired. Its developers never imagined the virtual assistant would become a cultural icon.

08/23/2022 By Benjamin Cassidy

This Month in Seattle Tech

The Museum of Museums Cancels the Amazon vs. Microsoft Exhibit

A social media firestorm led Greg Lundgren to pull the plug on a show aiming to bridge the local art and tech worlds.

07/29/2022 By Benjamin Cassidy

This Month in Seattle Tech

Amazon and Microsoft Bump Pay During the Tech Stock Crash

Falling share prices didn't stop Seattle's biggest companies from promising massive compensation packages.

05/31/2022 By Benjamin Cassidy

home screen

Best Phone Apps for Hiking and Camping

Your smartphone may be your best tool in the outdoors—and not just for the camera.

05/25/2022 By Allison Williams

This Month in Seattle Tech

Google Bets Big on a Kirkland Campus

The tech giant's new digs in the Seattle suburbs aren't built for a remote world.

04/29/2022 By Benjamin Cassidy

Currents

Seattle’s Worker Revolution Is Bigger This Time

From union drives to remote log-in requests, employees across the city are making sure their bosses remember who, and what, is most essential for society to work.

04/28/2022 By Benjamin Cassidy