Building a nuclear fusion reactor that can generate more energy than is put in to make it work is one of the biggest challenges facing engineers today. Like quantum computing, decades of research have

Facebook has long attempted to be the place where, above all else, you try to be yourself. Soon, Facebook will allow you to be yourself, but under a different name. The company is working on a stand-a

The fundamentals of the economy are, well, okay. It's been slow and steady, but the recovery has chugged along enough to get us back to something close to normal. The economy has surpassed its pre-cri

Thinkstock For almost a year, a company called Titan has operated a network of advertising beacons, devices that are capable of identifying nearby smartphones and which are often used to push advertis

Hacker News API by Kevin Hale 10/7/2014 Today we’re excited to launch an official Hacker News API . We’ve partnered up with Firebase (YC S11) so that the data we’re making available will be near real

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In June, Facebook announced that users who wanted to send private messages from their phones would have to download a separate app–Messenger–in order to do so. As I wrote at the time, it was an unusua

Making your brand the first priority of development Published in UX Collective · 5 min read · Oct 7, 2014 -- Our friends at GameIndustry.biz asked for our thoughts on how we’re building out our game s

NJ-assembly-tony-kurdzuk-NSL.JPG The Assembly voted to end the Christie Administration's practice of suppressing property tax rebate data last week (Tony Kurdzuk/Star-Ledger) Gov. Chris Christie has e

Social science has traditionally considered education and religion to be somewhat opposing forces. As societies become more educated, the reasoning goes, they will become less religious -- a phenomeno

Steven Sinofsky: Tech community Product Hunt’s new $6.1M could be a gift, or spoil the experience http://t.co/RcTX4hrDcK via @VentureBeat

chris muscarella: Venture capital and the great big Silicon Valley asshole game http://t.co/bIgW5TljeO via @instapaper

ryan: Someone is doing a solid job of running @TheAtlantic's Ello account. Only problem: they don't know who. http://t.co/f4rcJlO7Oo

The Department of Homeland Security has ordered agents at airports and other ports to "observe" arrivals from Ebola-affected countries for potential signs of Ebola infection.

Reddit, the Internet’s favorite place to share links, has raised about $50 million in funding. This is the round we told you about earlier this month , and many of the details are in keeping with that

Yes, we were accepted into one of the nation’s most prestigious accelerator programs and turned them down. So are we crazy? I’m sure there are those of you out there that think we are nuts for turning

David Barnard: “The battleground for app discovery…has more to do with where an app ranks in the search results, than…charts.” Yup! http://t.co/kweESJVm28

You know it’s a really good blog post when the engineers are sending it to the product managers instead of the other way around. PG’s Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule was one that rocketed around

Blend , a music collaboration platform used by major electronic producers like Moby and Prefuse 73 , has teamed up with independent distributor The Orchard to create a new kind of record label. The pa

I f Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee’s disparagement of atheists was just the ranting of a tinpot politician turned Fox News bloviator, it could be left without comment or fuss. Unfortunately, n

September 16, 2014 The Boring Designer Whenever I’m looking at a product designer’s work, I find myself continuously asking the same question: which solution is the boring one? Maybe it’s born out of seeing apps choose flash over function, or trying to understand just one too many indecipherable…

Dr. Matthew Schneps is one of the most respected scientists in the research of dyslexia. He heads up Laboratory for Visual Learning , a joint program of Harvard University and University of Massachuse

Posted on: September 28, 2014Posted in Mobile , Social When Tim Cook was interviewed by Charlie Rose after Apple’s mega launch event a few weeks ago, he scoffed at any mention of competitors, highligh

Sometimes it takes a stubbed toe to discover how far up Maslow’s hierarchy you really are. 4 min read · Sep 28, 2014 -- My exercise routine is a weekend yoga class, and an occasional walk around the n

A great, long-lived brand begins and ends with trust. Published in Silicon Guild · 4 min read · Sep 26, 2014 -- I was a big fan of the Uber service since I first saw one of the initial prototypes of t

monstrators fell subject to police aggression. Under the banner of Occupy Central, tens of thousands of locals (organizers say 60,000, media says 30,000) gathered in Hong Kong’s financial district to protests last month’s Beijing-led decision to vet the city’s political candidates through a…

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Photo: Jon Hicks/? Corbis. All Rights Reserved. On September 19, there was a mob scene around a large glass cube at the corner of 57 th Street and Fifth Avenue. Thousands of people stood in a mass, se

Late last week, I was looking for an RSS reader that had been updated for iOS 8. I couldn’t find any that I liked on the App Store, so I decided to give Digg a try. Yes, that Digg. I know that to many people that name may sound like a joke, but, as it turns out, the new Digg run by betaworks is a…

A collection of 20+ App Previews you can watch online (scroll down) Published in Tiny Hearts studio · 4 min read · Sep 19, 2014 -- iOS 8 is easily the most exciting update since the App Store launched

How We Got Here Social networking is the closest thing we’ve invented to a “snow crash” in the Neal Stephenson sense. A snow crash was something you downloaded off Stephenson’s 80s version of an advan

I'm going to say the unpopular -- please @ello don't listen to the developers for now. The willful ignorance of developers to business models is what has lead to our surveilled, tracked, productized social lives. Devs want access to everything now, for free, and they make it so the only way to make…