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Can a PepsiCo-Powered Crowd of Scientists Rescue Moms and Infants From...
Last November, Scientists Without Borders underwent a makeover from a social networking site for scientists to an open innovation platform that crowdsources solutions to scientific problems. The first...
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iGuardianTeen App Spies on Your Kid's Driving Habits
Want to make sure your teenager is driving safely? A new Android app called iGuardianTeen purports to do just that, acting like Big Brother for young drivers, logging speed, GPS, acceleration,...
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NBC's "The 20" Gives Local Twitterati Their Ron Burgundy Moments
But what does it mean that one of their own Twitter all-star commentators thinks the whole thing is kind of, well, dumb?Maybe it's not so hard to revive old media after all. Take the local broadcast...
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With Oscar Spotlight on "Sun Come Up," Film Director Helps Climate Change...
Jennifer Redfearn is now embarking on a campaign to give displaced Carteret islanders new lives. For Jennifer Redfearn, completing her film was only the beginning of the work. Redfearn is the director...
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Paging Dr. Awesome: Kinect Hack Lets Surgeons Play With Robots
Microsoft's Kinect may be a toy, but a new hack is giving it some serious skills: As an interface to the incredible robot surgeon da Vinci. It's accurate enough to sew sutures.We've seen several...
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Groupon Says Super Bowl Ads "Execution Was Off," Pulls Them From TV, YouTube
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason took to the web again Thursday to announce that the group-discount company will be pulling its controversial Super Bowl ads from the airwaves. In the blog post, Mason took...
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How Netflix Plans to Fend Off Amazon, Hulu Plus, HBO, and Time Warner
In 2010, Netflix spent roughly $550 million on postage fees, a sum that has declined significantly from years past and could drop even lower in 2011. Thanks to ramped up streaming efforts, the number...
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Can Robots Save ObamaCare's Doctor Shortage?
Robots can gave a paraplegic new legs and ring up our afternoon hamburger order, but they still cannot solve the pesky shortage of careers requiring an advanced degree. Especially problematic for...
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Defense Dept. Research Arm DARPA Tackles Storytime
 Once upon a time, DARPA wanted to work out how stories played a role in sharing information between people who are engaged in political activity, and possibly how to change the direction of the course...
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Mobile, Citizen-Driven Service Bridges Reporting Gap in Aid Industry
The United Nations Millenium Campaign made an important step this week by allowing Kenyans to send text messages directly to government offices when services are subpar. The aid industry is rife with...
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Think of the Children! Kiddie Games Site Abandons Free Model, Provoking...
"We have a feeling there's an army of toddlers out there who would probably string us up."When startups go from a free model to a fee model, they hurt feelings. But it's tougher for some businesses...
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You May Now Google the Bride
With Google Weddings, a new site for the betrothed, the search giant engages a new audience with clever repackaging and rebranding of pre-existing tools.Google has launched a new site, which we'll dub...
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China Turns to Tech to Fight Political Corruption
A group of linked whistle-blower websites and joy-ride-tracking GPS devices are the latest ways in which China is cracking down. For some Chinese government officials, joy riding just got a lot less...
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$39 Billion Mobile Phone Scam Threatens to Destabilize Indian Government
In the biggest government scandal in years, Indian politicians are accused of taking kickbacks to sell $39 billion worth of mobile phone bandwidth licenses at bargain-basement prices.A self-made...
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A Loaf, a Jug, a Solar Panel: Green Energy Now on Aisle 9
No need to head for the hardware store to pick up a DIY solar panel kit. Instead, just take a trip to the local supermarket--if you live in the U.K., that is, where Sainsbury's has teamed up with...
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Baked In: Fashion Site Polyvore Taps an Army of Anna Wintours
Mark Zuckerberg says social dynamics of the kind Facebook pioneered will one day be a core part of every industry. In the first installment of our new series, we take a look at some companies that are...
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OpenLeaks-WikiLeaks Smackdown Reveals Theft and Foul Play in Leak Land
One of the founders of OpenLeaks, himself a former WikiLeaks member, is facing accusations that he sabotaged Julian Assange's whistle-blower site and "stole" thousands of documents.The chap in question...
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Pandora, Innovative Internet Radio Station, Files For $100M IPO
Internet radio company Pandora today filed a registration statement for its initial public offering and hope to earn a reported $100 million.Rumors have been bubbling for months over an IPO for the...
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Times Square: Jack Dorsey's Mobile Payment Co. Blows $3K Budget on NYC...
Hot mobile payment startup Square is shooting for the moon after recently closing a $27 million funding round. As the service enters its second year, co-founder Jack Dorsey tweeted out the above photo...
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Here Comes Apple's Cloud-Based Streaming Service for iTunes
iTunes music streaming has been rumored for a long while, but has never actually surfaced... But if you read between the lines of two pieces of news at the moment, it seems the time is finally...
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