Meet Philip Stanger, CEO of Wifarer, who wants you to always find your way in shopping malls and museums. Philip Stanger is the CEO of Wifarer , an indoor positioning technology company.
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An international team that includes University of British Columbia physicists has used ultra-fast laser pulses to identify the microscopic interactions that drive high-temperature superconductivity.
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It all started with a wacky idea and a $20 Facebook ad.
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The newest speaker system from Bowers & Wilkins delivers a sizable punch for smaller home theater applications. The British manufacturer’s six-piece surround-sound system, the MT-60D, features five revamped versions of the 46-year-old brand’s M-1 speakers, which launched in 2006. Equipped with new drive units, which include a redesigned midrange driver ...
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By David Zax Meet Joe Nelson, a former Goldman Sachs trader who believes custom-fitted condoms are the key to making safe sex more pleasurable.
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What happens when a flood of highly educated, entrepreneurial young people return from studies abroad to tiny Cyprus? The answer offers a trickle of optimism.
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Overselling your product's abilities can cost way more than just your reputation. Here are six cautionary tales you need to know. Believe it or not, a Brooklyn man filed a class-action lawsuit this week against tech giant Apple saying its ads oversold Siri, the talking assistant, on the iPhone 4S
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On a morning in July 1868, British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron’s breakfast was interrupted by the news that her neighbor, the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson, had arrived with a gentleman and wanted to speak with her. Tennyson’s tagalong was none other than Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who had traveled from America ...
Read More »The Unlikely Multimedia Path Of Guardian Interactive Guru Gabriel Dance
The computer scientist by trade put multimedia skills to use in journalism and helped usher The New York Times, News Corp., and now The Guardian into the digital era. As an undergraduate at Colorado State, Gabriel Dance majored in computer science.
Read More »7 Hot Dorm Room Inventions
The 2012 class of our college start-ups list is on the cutting edge of products that will transform the way we live, from wireless headphones to a personalized electric motor bike. From wireless headphones to a personalized electric motor bike, the 2012 class of our annual America's Coolest College Start-ups list is on the cutting edge of product invention. Many of these upstarts were founded on the mission to give back to the world’s communities, take less from the earth’s resources, and have fun while doing it
Read More »Knight News Challenge Gives Away $5 Million On Tumblr
The 2012 Knight News Challenge is looking for a few good journalism projects to receive $5 million in funding... but applicants share their ideas with Tumblr's user base
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Study in British Medical Journal finds association between prescription drug sleep aids and increased risk of death
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