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Let's travel to the future for a moment and step inside a fish and chips joint for some lunch. Inside - the manager is planning a new promotional campaign. She's thinking of who's coming in, and what they want to eat. And she's doing it using Big Data.

Sunday night in Arizona, a woman was struck and killed by an Uber vehicle – the first pedestrian fatality caused by a self-driving car. Geekwire reporter Taylor Soper joined Bill Radke to talk about the implications for Seattle’s autonomous vehicle experiments.

As an undergrad at MIT, Emily Levesque discovered the three largest stars in the known universe. She was drawn to the project because of a long-seeded fascination with black holes. That inspiration came from a book she read when she was eight — “A Wrinkle in Time,” which has now been released as a grand production for the big screen.

There’s a line in “Where’d You Go, Bernadette,” by Maria Semple, that triggers pained recognition among locals. “The drivers here are horrible,” she begins. “They’re the slowest drivers you ever saw.”

If you follow the news, you might get the impression that things are pretty bad. Not just "why bother" bad. It's "throw your hands up" bad. Or even "eat a large bag of Sour Patch Kids in one sitting because we're all doomed anyway" bad.

Seattle real estate is hot, and getting hotter. One thing that might not be helping? Rent-bidding. It allows an apartment to be rented by the highest bidder. But does that drive up prices? KUOW's Paige Browning explains why the city is considering a ban.

Bill Radke talks to Seattle City Councilmember Mike O'Brien about a King County superior court ruling that says the city can not impound a vehicle if a person is using it for shelter in the city of Seattle.

Let this segment take you back — WAY back. We’re in your high school computer class. It's the 1980s: Walkmans in backpacks, satin jackets in lockers, Apple IIe computers running BASIC. Where is this nostalgic wonderland, you ask?

Can your car be your home, in the eyes of the law? What would you do if you could go back in time to the 1980s? And what do we do with the art of problematic men? We explore the ins and outs this hour.

Do you scoff when people say they support their local bookstores, but get their books on Amazon? Is supporting Woody Allen or R. Kelly any different? Katie Anthony says it can’t be.