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Did you know that on this day in history Alcoholics Anonymous was founded, Saab made its first auto, and the first Apple II computer shipped? That was then, this is what's happening today: This is part of a 1977 advert for the Apple II. Yup, he's working the numbers over a cuppa joe while she's chopping food for dinner.

How to build an education from just one blog post: The Pippa Buchanan story.

The FCC's "The Information Needs of Communities" report is out , examining the state of news sharing across the U.S., and boy, it's a doozy.

Have a business near a concert or sports venue? Wouldn't you like a way to reach that local, hungry, primed-to-spend crowd just as their tummies start to grumble? Here's a site and an app for you.

John Warrillow, author of Built to Sell, answers questions from readers about building a sellable business. Dear John: I've had my company up and running for five years. We've gotten past the start-up days where it felt like survival most of the time.

Apple's proposed new "spaceship" building in Cupertino features curved glass and an engineering challenge that makes solving the antennagate and white iPhone problems look cinchy. Apple's proposed new " spaceship " building in Cupertino may be made largely of huge sheets of curved glass. It's an aesthetic choice, and a very expensive one.

Imagine a cloud of rescue helicopters descending on a burning building. New artificial intelligence models teach semi-autonomous devices how to coordinate their actions to solve our problems. Like human intelligence, artificial intelligence is on a spectrum

In a move that'll help some digital magazine publishers and possibly streaming content providers, Apple has adjusted the terms and conditions for its subscriptions service. But how much help will it provide the struggling industry

Creator of one of the best-selling video game franchises in history, Will Wright, rebuts criticisms of violent video games and gives optimism for educational entertainment. One of the best-selling video game franchises in history isn't about killing hookers, decapitating ninjas, or nuking aliens--it's about raising families and leading prosperous cities. Will Wright , creator of SimCity, the seminal city planning simulator, and the life-journey spinoff, The Sims, tells Fast Company that video game critics, especially critics of violent video games, have overlooked that there's little difference between the success of Grand Theft Auto and The Sims--and, why this fact should make educators optimistic for the future of deeply educational video games

Stanford's Spatial History Project uses databases, ArcGIS, and other technological bells and whistles to visualize history that can't otherwise be easily told.

It's not just what we put into the air of cities that makes the air hard to breathe, it's the cities themselves.

With a new indoor weather monitoring system, IBM makes it easier to ensure rare art is properly preserved. But the implications go far beyond museums. Humans have, in general, done a decent job of preserving relics of the past in museums

A few months back, the White House announced the creation of Startup America , a public-private partnership to accelerate entrepreurialism in the U.S., chaired by AOL cofounder Steve Case. Now Case's old business partner, former Time Warner CEO Jerry Levin, is helping start a health-specific variation on Startup America, called Startup Health

Grouponone of the fastest growing companies everhas proven the formula works with its estimated $750 million IPO. Can still you break into the crowded daily deals space?

If oil rig operators could see real-time data about how each part of their operation was performing, they might have a better chance of stopping explosions. Nobody wants to see a repeat of last year's Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which saw approximately 4.9 million barrels of oil dumped into the Gulf