Creating Social Innovation Is No Different Than Starting A Company
By taking a business approach, you can make sure your idea works for the people who it’s designed to serve and that it will be scalable enough to make a real difference.
View ArticleThis Week In Bots: The "Extreme Use" Of A Robot Workforce
Bot Vid: Quadrocopters At Night We're used to seeing quadrocopters perform feats of aerial acrobatics or coordinated dances in a strictly controlled lab environment, where position sensors can give...
View ArticleA Device That Recycles Shower Water To Wash Clothes
Showers and washing machines waste a lot of water. One solution: recycling water from showers into washing machines. It’s not as dirty as it sounds.
View ArticleThe (Intentionally) Saddest Pinterest Page In The World
UNICEF creates a page for Ami Musa, a young girl from Sierra Leone, to bring her “pinnable” interests and ours into sharp relief.
View ArticleWhat Career Conversations Do Employees Want?
Year after year, surveys find enterprise employees dissatisfied with how they are being supported in their careers. In fact, most of them not only do not feel supported, they often feel downright...
View ArticleMeet Ms. Siri, Your New Teacher
The next generation of artificial intelligence from the lab that built the iPhone’s Siri is powering an educational game.
View ArticleAge does not make a leader.
Age does not make a leader. Attribution: Amber King, Marketing Executive & Commenter, "3 Ways To Become An Authoritative Leader, Even If You're Under 30"
View Article3-D Printing Comes To The Battlefield, And To Your Garage
3-D printing isn’t just for tech geeks anymore. Now it’s being used by everyone from car enthusiasts to members of the military as a low-cost manufacturing alternative.
View ArticleVegetable Power: Making Better Solar Cells With Spinach
Spinach generates more than just bulging arm muscles; it can also create powerful solar cells.
View ArticleThe 3 Steps To Getting Better At Breaking Bad News
The first step in giving tough feedback is checking our assumptions, says NineSigma Director Of Strategic Programs Denys Resnick. Watch to better understand an often painful process.
View ArticleThe Future Of The Electric Car, Visualized
Consumers aren’t clamoring to buy electric cars, but that might change. This infographic explains.
View ArticleBing Now Default Search Engine on Amazon's Kindle Fire: Is Apple Next?
Bing, Microsoft's search engine competitor to Google, hasn't quite made the dent in Google's market share that Redmond had hoped for. But as revealed this week, Microsoft may have just scored an...
View ArticleReclaiming Coupons And The Company Vision
CEO Cheryl Yeoh’s vision for CityPockets was being corrupted just months after the company launched. Originally conceived as a wallet for the growing number of daily deals sites, she changed course...
View Article10 Most Popular Stories Of The Week: Angry Pigs, Battlefield Research, And More
Find out why Nokia is thanking Apple’s lawyers, and why hiring annoying people might just pay dividends in the long run. These stories and more in this week’s top 10. 1. 5 Apps To Help You Swing Back...
View ArticleCloser Look At Amazon’s New Kindle Serials: Part Dickens, Part TV
When a slide showing eight book covers popped up in Jeff Bezos’s presentation on Thursday, Jennifer 8. Lee--who was following along on a live blog from New York City--gasped. The books are part of...
View ArticleGoogle's YouTube App Adds Advertising To The Equation
Google has released a brand-new YouTube app for iOS 6 just one day before Apple is due to launch the latest iPhone. Although the move seems like a step backwards for the Mountain View company, as...
View ArticleEven Inside Microsoft, Users Rarely "Bing It"
"You don't believe me? Bing it." That's Daniel Dae Kim, lead actor of CBS's hit TV series Hawaii Five-0, during an early episode in which he casually suggests to his partner that she "Bing" a query...
View ArticleU.K. Finally Gets 4G Mobile As Everything Everywhere Arrives
Britain today got its very own 4G mobile network as new provider EE launched with a promise of Nokia flagship smartphones and a veiled hint that the new iPhone might also be on its books. The service...
View ArticleAre You Making It Hard For Customers To Buy From You?
One Saturday afternoon, a management consultant with retail expertise happened to be in a crowded and very busy athletic shoe store where he saw a harried sales clerk repeatedly offer a particular...
View ArticleTeachers On Strike? Try These Learning Apps
More than 350,000 students are at loose ends this week as teachers of the nation’s third-largest school district go on strike. But while school’s out, technology could help them keep up with their...
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