Both Tesla and its chief executive Elon Musk are known for taking on risky or otherwise financially dangerous challenges that…
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I, like most Americans, woke up today feeling a little hungover. A 12-hour-long, down-to-the-wire election had culminated with the election…
Everyone who has children knows how important it is to record things like first steps, first words, and first musical performances.…
This has been a big month for transportation. We saw a solar car, an electric bus, and now, a detailed article from Lyft…
Studies such as this one in the Annals of Internal Medicine have shown that many dietary supplement pills are ineffective…
In the past few years, I’ve had to say my final goodbye to my dad, grandmother, godfather, cousin, aunt, and best…
A few months ago, we covered the pay-per-article media platform Blendle as a rare glimmer of hope in the dismal…
The Tesla autopilot function may have been called into question due to two high-profile summer accidents but, here’s one story about a self-driving vehicle saving a life.
With another $20 million raised in August, GrubMarket is expanding its farm-to-table food delivery services and is ready to take on the big boys.
Sometime in the 1300s a merchant in Genoa figured out he could make money by betting on cargo being lost…
The Oxford University Press inducted “bitcoin” into its online dictionary in 2013, along with a bunch of other esteemed words…
Computer programmers aren’t always known for their badassery. Assuming of course that “badass” still means something akin to “capable of death-defying…
Anyone who has seen the show Parking Wars knows that getting a parking ticket or traffic ticket (or worse, getting booted)…
More than just a digital photo frame, Meural is a stylish, connected canvas that allows you to view an unlimited collection of global art and photography in one single unit, including your own photography as well as images and art curated by museums, galleries, and studios.
At any given time, there are good startup ideas and there are bad startup ideas. Here are 13 bad ones. Email, messaging, networking, collaboration and friend finding apps – they’ve been done. And smart toys, foodie apps, and selfie sticks are killing our collective souls. So, when you’re looking for the next great business idea, please pass on these. Please.
Pokémon helped usher in the era of video gaming consumerism for the masses and created a new genre that still influences the industry through games on smartphones, Facebook, and more.
With Amazon Dash Replenishment Service we no longer have to order things like water filters, detergent or pet food. When they’re low, they order themselves. The impact on competition, advertising and ecommerce remains to be seen.
It’s the beginning of the end of the beginning of an era. “Disruption” has been the buzzword of the startup…
We’ve all been there. Too sick to get out of bed. Too busy to make it to the doctor’s office…
Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last couple of years, you probably know what Uber is. You also…
When The Grid first unveiled its grand vision of creating “websites that design themselves”, it caused quite a stir. Some…
Creating a website has never been easier. With an explosion of web design technologies, as well as a harmonizing of…
Over the course of the last year, two startups, The Grid and PageCloud, have announced platforms that could potentially change the…