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Microwork Gets A Mega Boost

In December, the microwork not-for-profit Samasource received a $1.25 million grant from Google.org. Samasource, which provides marginalized people with computer-based work and was founded by Leila Chirayath Janah, one of our 2011 ...READ MORE›

In Hypergrowth China, Lenovo Is Apple And Starbucks Combined

Magazine preview: China's first global brand is on the cusp of a critical transition.READ MORE›

A Malaria Outbreak Predictor? This Time It's for Real

10 years of research and development has made a new, tested computer model a reality.READ MORE›

TED and Teaching Ourselves With Technology

The most recent TED gathering, TEDGlobal in Oxford, highlighted the theme of the future of education--and Chris Anderson's own talk hinted at how TED sees itself as a potential part of that future. Sugata Mitra, of the Hole in the ...READ MORE›

SxSWi offered loads of innovation...and risk to your business

So, maybe it wasn't the best idea to leap full tilt into those cool new tools we discovered through SxSWi. Learn how to safely integrate innovation without putting your infrastructure, data, business and brand at risk.READ MORE›

Litl Video Tour

The company's CEO offers a video tour of a computer designed for the way we live now.READ MORE›

Virtual Project Management Tool Organizes Project Steps

The virtual workspace is a project management tool that allows individuals, groups and business teams to connect and collaborate on projects digitally. Teams can plan projects, update project steps, organize events and create reports ...READ MORE›

Undead Tech: The Hooked-Up Luxury Car

In the run-up to the Detroit Auto Show, there have been a lot of new hoopties sneak-peeked by luxury car companies, but perhaps none as truly hooked up as the new Audi A8. The A8 is arguably this year's torch-bearer for ...READ MORE›

The HP-85: iPhone of the 1980s

On Friday we reported a new iPhone app that makes it easier to start a small business. The idea that a small, portable computing device could help grow a concept into company isn't a new one; in fact, it was the genesis of HP's marketing campaign for their early 1980s PC, the HP-85.READ MORE›

Apple Fast Becoming iPod, Inc.

In 2007, Apple decided it would drop the "Computer" from its corporate title and become simply Apple, Inc. At the time the change seemed semantic or aesthetic, depending on your outlook. But the move proved more prescient this morning ...READ MORE›

Creative Deconstruction: Why Dell's Designers Tear Apart Their Own Computers

Most designers' time is focused on creation when it comes to a product's lifecycle. But it is just as important to look at the other end of the lifecycle--the deconstruction of the very products that they create. READ MORE›

• Ken Musgrave's Think.Design blog

British Climate Change Supercomputer Is Also a Super Polluter

Scientists already know that climate change has an impact on the environment, but what about the supercomputers that are supposed to predict climate change? It turns out the U.K.'s most powerful supercomputer, which also happens to be ...READ MORE›

Fast History: Storm Botnet Sends 57 Million Emails in One Day, 2007

For computer viruses everywhere, today is something akin to the day Michael Phelps won his eighth gold medal. Two years ago today, the Storm botnet (sometimes called the Storm worm botnet) had a career day, sending a record 57 million ...READ MORE›

Thought-based Computing? No Problem for Your Monkey Brain

It's well known that your brain can automate certain tasks like walking or playing the guitar. But new research out of the University of California, Berkeley demonstrates that our brains might be just as apt at controlling PCs. That ...READ MORE›

Goldman's Trading Formulae Leaked by Quant Spy

Star bank holding firm Goldman Sachs has been getting its fair share of antipathy this month. First it was Rolling Stone's polemic against the bank; then it was BusinessWeek's sobering review of how the 140-year-old firm will be ...READ MORE›

Connecting With Computers Through Mud

Tom Gerhardt's mud computer, one of the projects on display at NYU's ITP spring show 2009, is a keyboard replacement made entirely of the squishy stuff. According to Gerhardt, the Mud Tub pioneers a "new open-ended interaction ...READ MORE›

Microsoft Directs TomTom to Drop Dead

At the end of February, Microsoft [MSFT] brought suit against GPS company TomTom [TOM2] for several patent infringements pertaining to TomTom's Linux-based GPS navigation software. Now the Linux community is preparing for a fight, ...READ MORE›

Tips for Netbook Shoppers

Been craving a netbook? What you need to know.READ MORE›