Social Entrepreneurship   In our social entrepreneurship series, The World at Work, Mashable interviews the faces behind the startups and projects that are working to make a global impact. By harnessing the power of the [...]

Scientists have created a biological computer capable of extracting hidden images on a DNA chip. There’s nothing new about a computer reading images encrypted on DNA chips, but this is the first computer made only [...]

What’s the best way to stop slavery?   If you’re MTV, the answer is with $10,000 and a country of digitally minded students looking to make a difference. MTV and mtvU, its activism-minded sibling, are [...]

The demand for sustainable energy is higher than ever.   According to a study by BP, global energy consumption has seen a 5.3% increase within the last year, the largest jump since 1973. Our digital [...]

Really Using Apple’s Voice Assistant By now it seems we’re all well aware of the many Easter eggs Apple has left for us in Siri, the intelligent assistant baked into the iPhone 4S. She has [...]

Talking about a new computing revolution Let me start off by saying this: Your phone is not suddenly going to gain sentience and become Skynet. However, your phone is about to become a whole lot [...]

Forty-five years ago, the first episode of Star Trekaired on NBC. It was five years after the Soviet Union launched the first human into space, and the franchise explored a fictional 23rd century “United Federation [...]

If you want to make processors 1,000 times faster, you’re going to need some serious technology, right? That would be the conventional wisdom. But 3M and IBM have unlocked a secret low-tech shortcut. The companies [...]

The social networking revolution is apparently not something you can drive to. A Super Bowl ad for the Chevy Cruze showed a guy heading home from a date and then using a voice-activated version of [...]