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50 Alternate American Flags, Each A Secret Infographic

The design studio MGMT. hides telling data points inside their reimagined variations of the Stars and Stripes.

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Spinning A Made-In-The-Midwest Student Project Into Kickstarter Gold

Clip Tree, the ingenious little storage system by a Cranbrook grad student, is fast becoming one of Kickstarter’s rare furniture success stories.

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A $32,000 Carbon-Fiber Fixed-Gear Bike, Designed By A Formula 1 Firm

The Coren is the first two-wheel endeavor from UBC, a company better known for making parts for Toyota’s Formula 1 car.

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A Music-Making Interface That Riffs On The Rubik’s Cube

The MusixCube poses the question: What if composing music were as simple as failing to solve the puzzle?

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CB2's Frat-Boy-Chic Foosball Table For Grown-Ups

Backward hats and PBR not included.

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Google Threatens French Media With Search Engine Ban

Yesterday will not be remembered as a great day in Google's history. As well as the vertiginous stock slide, which sliced 9% off its share value before trading was halted for a couple of hours, the...

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How Joanna Coles Nabbed Cosmo's Corner Office

“Growing up, Cosmo was my lifeline to the world,” says Joanna Coles, the freshly installed editor-in-chief of the largest women’s magazine. “A world that I wanted to be in but couldn’t get to yet.”...

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The New Science Of Resumes--And Why Yours Sinks To The Bottom Of The Pile

Keywords, social resumes, applicant tracking systems, and LinkedIn are all relatively new additions to the vocabulary associated with job searching. These systems affect the way your resume is read,...

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7 Ways To Convince Your Boss You Deserve A Raise

In this economy, count yourself as one of the lucky ones if you have a job. But what if you've had this job for some time and you feel you're overdue for a raise? How do you convince someone to give...

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Help! My Manager Sucks

Let’s pretend, hypothetically, that you report to a manager who falls short of ideal. Perhaps he (or she) undermines your efforts, micromanages, only notices what’s wrong, doesn’t walk the talk,...

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Want Proof That Market Fit Is Everything? Test Your App In The Slums Of Sao...

Connect a smart team with a huge market, and the results can be explosive growth. But fitting the two together can mean months of validation and product testing--sometimes leading to results you'd...

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To Make A Graceful Recovery, Consider The Human Side

Mistakes will happen, says K.C. Blonski of AchieveGlobal. And to learn from them, you need to address the human side of the problem.

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What If You Had A Business Superpower?

For GE CMO Beth Comstock, it's "constant courage." What's yours?

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How Next Issue Media Is Trying To Become Spotify For Magazines

Back in April, a conglomerate of top publishers including Condé Nast, Hearst Corporation, and Time Inc. created Next Issue, an Android app for all-you-can-eat magazines at a fixed monthly price of...

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The FTC Is Paying $50,000 To Anyone Who Can Rid Us Of Those Pesky Robocalls

An unknown number flashes across the screen of your phone's caller ID. It's not an 800 number. In fact, it has a seemingly real area code, from "Bayonne, New Jersey." Though you don't know anyone from...

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Facebook Lends A Hand To U.K.'s New Comp-Sci Curriculum

Britain's Department of Education is to give its moribund ICT curriculum six of the best--with a little help from Facebook. The social media firm, along with IBM and Microsoft, is to help revamp...

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A Visual Breakdown Of The Benefits Of Working From Home

Are you on the fence about working from home? Is your boss? Here are some numbers to put in context how good it is for you and your job. Unless you don’t want to be a less stressed, more productive...

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Think Your Boss Is Psycho? "The Girl" Studies Alfred Hitchcock's Obsession...

Director Julian Jarrold talks about telling the story of Hitchcock’s dysfunction while paying tribute to his work as a filmmaker.

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How SocialCheck.me Builds A "Trust Infrastructure" For Employers, eBay...

Robert Park is a founder of SocialCheck.me, which wants to transform the way employers hire people. You know that little footnote to your resume, where you list a few references--mostly people you’re...

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Behind The Live Action "Halo 4" Trailer, A David Fincher/Tim Miller...

Director Tim Miller talk about how the new two-minute promo took shape, his collaboration with Fincher, and how the poem "Invictus" inspired him.

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