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Architect Gisue Hariri shares the items she can't live without. .caption {color:#666;font-size:12px;} .caption img {padding-bottom:2px;} .boxxy {display:inline-block;width:280px;border:none;margin:6px;vertical-align:top;} Photo by Ryan Pfluger To make architectural statements, Gisue Hariri employs digital technology and modern materials--but the Iranian-born architect, who runs the New York firm Hariri & Hariri with her sister Mojgan, looks to ancient sources for inspiration

Israel may be the world's next energy superpower. But is this good for the Jews?

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Burning Man isn't just about getting crazy on the Playa anymore. The organization is now taking on urban revitalization, aiming to fix up the area around its new HQ.

After Hotels.com founder Bob Diener sold to IAC in 2003, he went to kite-surf camp in Costa Rica.

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If you’ve cheaped out on your office technology, a new study claims you’ll pay the price. Yes, the study is from Hewlett Packard, but still the results are eye-opening: Nearly every small business surveyed (93 percent) admitted they tried to save money instead of buying what they really wanted.

When he retired after 26 years as an investigator with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Office of the Inspector General, George Mulley thought his final report was one of his best. Mulley had spent months looking into why a pipe carrying cooling water at the Byron nuclear plant in Illinois had rusted so badly that it burst. His report cited lapses by a parade of NRC inspectors over six years and systemic weaknesses in the way the NRC monitors corrosion.

You don't need to talk like a robot or an English language professor to control and dictate messages to your phone or computer. Here's how the speech-to-text software makers suggest you should speak. Nobody talks on the phone anymore, but people are talking at their phones.

Document embedding and web form building can be a necessity when sharing information, and it's hard to find a reliable service that offers premium business solutions. Mix and match these 7 tools to get the most out of a documents suite, and watch your information work for you. For some, GoogleDocs can be a personal organization savior.

Apple appears to be gearing up for a fresh assault on a market it's never done hugely well in: Enterprise.

When Dolores Labs changed its name to CrowdFlower, it left behind a sprawling loft of an office, a hip logo, and a culture of innovation. A VC firm seized the opportunity. When Dan Scholnick of Trinity Ventures was considering investing in San Francisco-based crowdsourcing start-up Dolores Labs, he laid one significant stipulation on the company's CEO, Lukas Biewald

Network attached storage devices are gaining popularity as a way of sharing files among multiple computers.

This Massachusetts company connects brands to the influential and elusive busy mom. During an eight-year stint as a lawyer at Harvard Law School, Stacy DeBroff realized that there were many women around her struggling to maintain balance between work and family life.