When you think of physics your mind most likely jumps to the theories of quantum mechanics and general relativity. And you wouldn’t be wrong, given…
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Airbnb, the home-sharing website that has revolutionized the way we lodge, is gearing up to join other sharing economy startups as a publicly-traded company. In…
One lesson from TechCrunch’s Disrupt SF is that founders can’d get enough programming on the really hard questions. How do I get into Y Combinator?…
This summer, four mechanical engineering graduate students had the opportunity to gain hands-on experience working in industry. Through the recently launched Industry Immersion Project Program…
Conversations about privacy concerns in recent years have often focused on the online space, given high profile data breaches and repeated revelations of tech companies’ …
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is exploring tech sprints as a means to accelerate innovation across its regulatory and compliance landscape—and it wants the public…
Aiming to do what politicians in the U.S. are failing to do, eCommerce giant Amazon announced a corporate pledge to surpass the requirements of the…
Apple released iOS 13, the new major version of iOS. This isn’t a groundbreaking release that is going to change the way you use your…
A Treasury Department Inspector General audit released this week “identified significant vulnerabilities” within the IRS’ revamped bring-your-own-device program. The audit, conducted across several IRS offices…
Wing, the drone delivery company that started its life within the Google X lab before spinning out into its own thing under the Alphabet umbrella,…
Dietary supplements are used by millions who accept the occasionally scarce evidence they help out with some condition or another. But also scarce is documentation…
Twenty+ startups, each with six minutes to tell the world what they’re about. If they can prove to our panel of judges that they’re the…
Amazon will be stepping up its efforts to reduce its climate impact, CEO Jeff Bezos announced on Thursday. The company will be ordering 100,000 electric…
From pv magazine USA. There are numerous positive projections suggesting significant volumes of solar power will be deployed across the United States in the coming…
A research team led by the University of Liverpool has developed a transparent conductive oxide material to replace tin with molybdenum. The results demonstrated better…
An estimated output of 104 GWh of clean energy per year from the second half of 2020 is not the only benefit the Vlagtwedde Solar…
Huawei has launched its latest smartphones without many of the apps typically pre-installed on Android handsets. The Mate 30 and Mate 30 Pro both lack…
Ginkgo Bioworks is now worth $4 billion after a $290 million capital infusion that will give the company the cash to dramatically expand its developer…
About 18 months ago, Jenny Gyllander created an Instagram account by the name @thingtesting. The premise was simple. Gyllander, who was at the center of…
Here’s a new moment in computer gaming: a developer has just created an online 3D computer game made only in ASCII — meaning the graphics…