Walter Hood transforms run-of-the-mill public spaces—city parks, highway underpasses—into pillars of the communities they serve. His goal: to prove that every place, and every person, can benefit from good design.READ»
Bits of Aaron Sorkin's script for the film about the founding of Facebook have bounced around the Internet for a while. We got our hands on what seems to be the almost final entire script.READ»
"There are few things more bothersome than junk email," says conference
president Gordon Cormack. Last year, spam -- roughly 90% of all emails
-- cost businesses $130 billion in lost productivity, up 30% from 2007.
Scientists in ...READ»
There's a wealth of data on the Internet -- 100 billion -- plus gigabytes, actually. "But if you can't find something on the first page of your Google results, it may as well not exist," says Dave McComb, who chairs this San Francisco ...READ»
Rainer Hosch
On his eighth birthday, Rainer Hosch received a camera from his father, a photojournalist. The gift sparked a passion that carried Hosch from his family home in Austria to his current live-in studio in New York's ...READ»
Ted Murphy looks at a soda can and sees an opportunity for people to make money. And not by returning the empties to collect a nickel. Instead, the CEO of IZEA sees people snapping photos of their beverages with their iPhones and ...READ»
Lost, the TV show, is best known for the mysterious numbers 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, and 42 -- which may or may not refer to characters who may or may not be "candidates" to control the island. But Lost, the pop-culture phenomenon, is better ...READ»
For this year's world's fair, which runs until October 31, Shanghai has
set up a high-tech welcoming committee: an army of 5-foot-tall androids
named Haibao ("treasure of the sea"). The 70 million visitors expected
in town for the ...READ»
These days, sharing isn’t just caring--it’s ensuring virality, especially on Facebook. And Dan Zarrella, the Hubspot viral-marketing scientist who gave us nine proven ways to get retweeted on Twitter, knows exactly how to ...READ»
The vast majority of tattooed people don't regret getting inked, according to recent data from Harris Interactive. But for the 16% that do, the cost of laser-removal treatments can run up to $10,000 -- a hefty price to pay for a ...READ»
There's a reason computers, cell phones, and even basic remote controls come with instructions: We need to learn how to use them. Tan Le, founder and president of Emotiv Systems, an electronics company focused on brain-computer interfaces, wants to do away with the manual.READ»
Sara de Freitas doesn't play around. As director of research at the Serious Games Institute (SGI) in Coventry, England, she’s a driving force behind the serious games movement, which leverages gaming tech and techniques for non-entertainment purposes, such as education, defense, and health care.READ»
Ever wondered where to grab lunch? Or which DVD set to buy? Or even what to wear on -- gasp! -- a first date? Flickr cofounder Caterina Fake's latest startup helps users make decisions by comparing what it knows about them to what it knows about others like them.READ»
The Gamers
Shinyoung Park
Foudner Funji
In real life, most teens and tweens can't hit the clubs or crash late-night parties. (We're ignoring Miley Cyrus.) But on Funji, the first avatar-based social ...READ»
Don't be fooled by the name of her startup. As cofounder and head of products for LOLapps, a leading social-apps publisher, Annie Chang is pioneering a very serious business venture.READ»
At a time when social apps and next-gen consoles are getting all the buzz, Kate Connally knows that many gamers -- especially teens -- just want to point, click, and drop a teabag on Lady GaGa.READ»
To mark its first century, this Smithsonian museum in Washington is celebrating us all with the new $20.7 million, 15,000-square-foot Hall of Human Origins. Highlights will include forensically reconstructed faces of early human ...READ»
Andrey Ternovskiy, the 17-year-old creator of Chat Roulette, is now embroiled in a bidding war that pits the U.S. and Russia against each other over where the company will end up. Could it blow up like Facebook? Or fizzle like MySpace?READ»
