Dish Network Says Ranchers, Farmers Don't Care About AMC, So We Asked Real...
The ongoing dispute between AMC and Dish Network took a confusing turn this week when Dish chairman Charlie Ergen invited another party into the fold: rural America. In an earnings call Wednesday,...
View ArticleNokia Responds To Consumer Criticism About Lumia 900 Without Windows Phone 8
Nokia's slick Lumia 900 smartphone has received rave reviews from critics and designers alike. And with a massive multi-million-dollar marketing push from AT&T, the Lumia series is arguably...
View ArticleMake Your Ideas Irresistible
Having a good idea is easy, putting it into pratice is not. Peter Rojas, whose good ideas have included Engadget, Gizmodo, and gdgt, has a key to bringing thoughts into reality.
View ArticleDirector Tony Gilroy on How to Create Action Scenes The “Bourne” Way
After writing the entire series and directing “The Bourne Legacy,” Tony Gilroy knows how epic action scenes are built. Here, he shares the secrets to edge-of-your-seat, authentic action.
View ArticleOne Of Facebook’s Top Designers Is Leaving, To Fund Designer-Led Start-Ups
How do you walk away from one of the biggest products in the world? By walking toward several tiny ones.
View ArticleOMG, Your Fridge Has The Cutest Profile Pic Ever!
When you think of machine-to-machine connectivity, what's the first thing that comes to mind? For me it was the promise of the connected refrigerator--the ability to harness the latest and greatest...
View ArticleOn YouTube, A Thriving Scene Of Sign-Language Music
The video sharing site is becoming home to a vibrant scene of American Sign Language versions of popular songs. No closed captioning required.
View ArticlePeer Pressure: What Microloans And Your Next Group Purchase Might Have In Common
Crowdtilt is a platform anyone can use to raise money for anything. Sound familiar? Kickstarter shares the same crowdfunding focus. But what sets Crowdtilt apart from its better-known competitor is...
View ArticleLessons In Productive Procrastination
Frank Partnoy describes himself as an inveterate procrastinator--and the banker/lawyer/author is not convinced that’s a bad thing. His book Wait: The Art and Science of Delay is an investigation into...
View ArticleMeet the Creators: Lexical Gap, The Trio Behind Global Instagram Window,...
Marcio Puga, Mauricio Massaia, and Per Thoresson of digital lab Lexical Gap put together a website that aggregates city-specific Instagram images in real time. Here’s why they did that, and what they...
View ArticleTrapit Promises Better Browsing And Targeted Content On IPad
Uncorked Studios and Siri siblingTrapit collaborate on an iPad app that offers a new, machine-learning-driven content discovery and reading experience.
View ArticleTake A Journey Through The Universe With This Incredible 3-D Map
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s 3-D map of the universe reminds us how inconceivably small we are, amid many other galaxies and such a vast expanse of darkness.
View ArticleThe Key To A Thriving Creative Class? Give Artists Their Own Real Estate...
The process whereby artists cycle through the rundown neighborhoods of American cities has become so entrenched it even has a dirty name: the SoHo effect. Artists venture into an area where no else...
View ArticleHow Olympic Uniforms--And Your Hoodie--Can Be Made In The U.S.A.
When America learned that the nation's 2012 Olympic uniforms designed by the iconic U.S. designer Ralph Lauren were made in China, a ripple of controversy put pressure on an American institution to...
View ArticleInfographic: Predicting The Spread Of HIV, With A Virtual Community Of 150,000
Real data about sex and drugs fuses with supercomputing to simulate the spread of HIV between real (virtual) people.
View ArticleGet Fired? Then Keep Fighting
So they let you go. It's happened a few times to Dennis Littky--the education advocate knows how to turn that experience into a pugilistic positive.
View ArticleA New Economic Bill Of Rights To Create National Happiness
If we’re going to remake our economy to increase well-being for all people, we would do well to include these 10 new tenets of economic freedom.
View ArticleArt Made Of Table Salt, Hundreds Of Hours In The Making
Motoi Yamamoto creates site-specific mandalas, which he later invites the public to help him destroy.
View ArticleYoung Entrepreneurs Find A Use For Wasted Food: Feeding The Hungry
FlashFood--a finalist in the Imagine Cup--pairs restaurants' extra food with people in need, all through a simple SMS-based service.
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