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One junior high schooler and his mobile game totally changed the fate of this app development platform. The circumstances may differ, but for successful startups there’s always a tipping point

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Entrepreneurs share how they launched their businesses in just 54 hours at Startup Weekend. We've heard it before: You have a great idea, but you just don't have the time to build it into a sustainable company. Startup Weekend proves that notion false

More adventures in gamifying higher education. One challenge facing journalism educators in this age of instant-access Internet is getting students to leave the warm glow of their computer screens to conduct primary source research

Most startups are not well led--that's the nature of most new business ventures, everyone is learning as they go along. But there are some common best practices to keep in mind, which I describe in this week's episode.

The fantasy world of Skyrim is notable for its scale and level of realism. Game director Todd Howard explains how his team at Bethesda Game Studios approaches the creation of a world. [click to enlarge images] Some video games take place in military bases, or even whole cities

With more than 600,000 hacking attempts on Facebook every day, one might be forgiven for asking why we're so willing to share the intimate details of our everyday lives.

A prep school's new environmental center turns energy use into a living game. Illustration by Radio After spending their childhood playing online games, students at Choate Rosemary Hall will soon be able to live inside one

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Introducing Starred , where we take

Introducing Starred , where we take

Robot Fly Trap A professor at the University of Maine has made a robot version of a plant that in some ways is a robot all by itself...the Venus Fly Trap. The diminutive fly-grabber is partly made of a nanomaterial called ionic polymeric metal composite, which acts to replicate the tiny sensitive hairs inside a real trap that send a signal to the closing mechanism when stimulated by a fly landing inside--in this case the nanomaterial, when flexed, sends a tiny electrical signal through an amplifier to the two "leaves" of the trap, made out of the same material. When the bigger signal hits the leaves, they flex in reaction...and trap the fly.

How do you follow up a critically acclaimed, blockbuster game? If you're Bioshock writer/director Ken Levine, you let someone else handle the sequel while you re-imagine the series. Here, Fast Company talks Bioshock Infinite with Levine, and the lead actors, Courtney Draper and Troy Baker.

The founder of New York City's newly redesigned Le Bernardin restaurant says there's one sure way to fail: stop changing with the times. Fresh off recent honors , having taken first place in the Food and Most Popular categories in the 2012 Zagat Survey and having earned three stars in the 2012 Michelin Guide, not to mention having achieved a 25-year reign as a New York Times four-star restaurant, Le Bernardin chef and co-owner Eric Ripert could easily rest on his laurels

These are the spirits of innovation past: 11 products and services that Google axed. Not everything Google touches turns to gold