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After Decades Of Pixel Painting, Chuck Close Goes Truly Digital
The legendary artist will reveal his latest portraits, created with watercolors on a printer, this week.
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AOL's Alto Reimagines The Email Experience With A Twitter, Pinterest, Gmail...
How does it feel to throw a product launch and have nobody come? Just ask AOL. In November 2010, the company unveiled Project Phoenix, a platform intended to rev up its doddering email business. Once...
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White House Inquiry Clears Huawei From Spying
Ten days after a congressional committee insinuated it was a risk to national security, Huawei has been exonerated by the White House. Although the 18-month review, which concluded earlier this year,...
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The Story Behind The Stuff: Consumers' Growing Interest In "Real" Products
There’s evidence all around us--whether it’s watching someone gush over the sleek design of a new phone and then seek out the perfect hand-carved, petrified-jungle-wood case to put it in, or the...
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Bundling Your Way To Bigger Profits
Did you ever try to add one channel to your cable or satellite TV service? If you tried, you probably failed, because TV channels are routinely bundled by the big boys like DirecTV, DISH, and Time...
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Amazon Pushes Kindle To Kindergarten Kids in U.S.
As the jostling and jockeying for position in the tablet market gets ever more frenzied, Amazon is hoping for a slice of the education market. Yesterday it unveiled Whispercast, a service that allows...
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It's Behavior, Not Motivational Talk, That Inspires
For Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia, when it comes to inspiring a team, oratory isn't enough.
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Why You Want Your Team To Kill Your Ideas
Frontier Project CEO Ryann Wayne likes to present her ideas early on. That way, the bad ones get killed and the good ones get championed.
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London Judge Rules Samsung Did Not Copy iPad Design
Samsung is off the hook again with Apple in the latest installment of the (seemingly interminable) patent-slash-design slapfest. A judge in London's High Court has ruled that, no, the Galaxy Tab does...
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The Ascent of Mad: See 60 Years Of Satire And Stupidity
The original Mad men were a group of subversive cartoonists and writers poking fun at all forms of authority. Sixty years later the job is harder--satirizing folks who have grown up with Mad and are in...
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This Is What Google's Secretive Data Centers Look Like
The company has let the public in on the surprisingly beautiful rooms that power your email and searches--and create huge amounts of emissions that you don’t normally associate with the clean-seeming...
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It's Not Just Electronics: Delving Into The Problems With China's Apparel...
Ma Jun--crusader against bad environmental practices in China--doesn’t just try to make your computer better. He’s also working on the clothes made in China (which is most of them).
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How Can Government Help Grow The Sharing Economy?
Everyone loves to be able to rent apartments or share cars, but the powers that be are still a little unsure how to treat this new economy. And what the government does next may change the path of how...
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A New Atlas App Puts The Planet In Your Hands
Instead of merely showing borders, this new electronic atlas lets you play around with data big and small about the planet today--and its future.
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Empowering Women With A Wriggly New Industry: Worms
Byoearth is replacing chemical fertilizer, cleaning up trash, and giving poor women jobs and a path out of poverty. What magic bullet can do all these things at once? Teaching women to be worm farmers.
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Practical Advice From Female Entrepreneurs Who Stand Out In A Sea Of Dudes
Like many entrepreneurs, Nicole Kendrot turned a problem into a business opportunity. In her case, the problem was student loans--not just the amount of debt, but managing the payments. Her solution:...
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Reverse-Engineering Twitter To Solve An Advertising Mystery
Recently I opened the Twitter app on my Mac and noticed something very strange: It was omitting promoted tweets from my timeline. In the side-by-side comparisons below, notice the "howaboutwe.com"...
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A Lab For Solving The World's Most Pressing Problems
Insight Labs convenes groups of problem-solvers from all industries to tackle issues about education, social investment, and design.
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Once Upon A Time, Twitter Launched A Storytelling Festival. The End
"When you begin to think about Twitter as not just the tweet, not just 140 characters alone in a sea of 140-character tweets, but as collections of tweets, that becomes very powerful," said Andrew...
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An Online University Reinvents What Learning Can Be
P2PU isn’t just revolutionary because it’s online, it’s revolutionary because it’s reshaping traditional educational models by replacing them with a community of people who are both teachers and...
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