Right now, someone is tinkering with a billion dollar secret — they just don’t know it yet. “What people aren’t telling you,” Peter Thiel taught his class at Stanford, “can very often give you great [...]

“People who might know” Bing and Google each recently unveiled its own new search interface, designed to better intuit your intent and help you get to the one best answer more efficiently.  And they’ve meet [...]

Over 500 passengers having thrown down a $20,000 deposit on the $200,000 flight into space NASA may not be sending anyone to Mars anytime soon, the exploration of space and beyond – though on a [...]

Airtime has become another form of currency   In less than three decades, the mobile phone has gone from being a status symbol to being a ubiquitous technology that facilitates almost every interaction in our [...]

The oppression industry is bad enough now …   The government of Syria uses made-in-California technology from BlueCoat Systems to censor the Internet and spy on its pro-democracy activists (who are regularly arrested and tortured, [...]

I suspect the first “cheap” 4K screens will arrive around CES 2015 As we approach the E3, the electronic gaming show in early June, I suspect that the value of “Retina” high-resolution displays will soon [...]

In the United States, only 57 percent of blacks and Latinos graduated from high school One of today’s most challenging yet promising markets is the educational system. If you want to see startups hungry to disrupt [...]

Currently, the degree is the only meaningful “unit” of education to which employers give any credence. Jailbreak verb. 1 To get out of a restricted mode of operation. 2 To enable use of a product [...]

Make courses from both schools available to people around the world for free Distance learners rejoice! Harvard University and MIT jointly announced their new non-profit edX online learning initiative in Cambridge earlier today, which aims [...]

The faster science moves, the faster the world moves Almost every technological and medical innovation in the world has its roots in a scientific paper. Science drives much of the world’s innovation. The faster science [...]

What will it take to resolve that paradox? Corner any up-and-coming Kevin Systrom wanna-be and have a heart-to-heart about the challenges of building a successful company and at some point you’ll likely wander into the territory of [...]

Connected Cars And Bio-Acoustical Transmission Yesterday, I was lucky enough to venture into the depths of AT&T’s New York offices and check out the Research Lab. In essence, AT&T has about a zillion APIs that [...]