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The origins of Silicon Valley’s garage myth

To understand the enduring mythology of the Silicon Valley garage, you have to go back to the one that started it all: a converted shed in suburban Palo Alto, where in 1938 William R. Hewlett and David Packard began developing their first product.

How Ikea and HP want to help keep plastic out of the ocean: make stuff from it

The two companies are the latest members of a coalition called NextWave Plastics, which is committed to finding uses for recycled plastics.

Top 5 Ads of the Week: Burger King’s nightmare, Ted Cruz loves White Castle

Yeti’s latest short film, HP brings back The Wolf, and you’d never know Pilsner Urquell made this feature beer doc.

Google’s melding of Chromebooks and Android is still a mess

I was excited when the company enabled Android apps to run on Chrome OS, but the end result isn’t worth the effort.

Top 5 Ads Of The Week: Serena’s Nike flashback, Elton John raps for Snickers

HP’s all-American family portrait, the Terry Fox Foundation’s pre-social media followers, and a little girl’s adorably complicated relationship with soup.

If The Shoe Fits: How HP Is Helping NFL Players Avoid Injury

Now installed in all 32 NFL teams’ locker rooms, HP’s FitStation technology helps players find the best cleat models for their feet in a few seconds.

Meg Whitman is stepping down from HP Enterprise

HP reports agencies made significant progress hiring with women in workforce

Samsung Is Out Of Context, HP Goes Back To School: The Top 5 Ads Of The Week

Von Miller gets surreal for Old Spice, Lowe’s gets DIY with Instagram Stories, and Sweden invites stressed tourists to live in a glass cabin in the woods.

Designers Are Forgetting One Major Element Of The Design Process

What do you do with broken products? You fix them.

Don’t Be Too Chatty? Dads And Daughters Talk About Outdated And Sexist Job Interview Advice

For Father’s Day, HP got fathers and daughters to talk about some of the most common job interview “tips” out there for women.

If These Giant Companies Can Switch To The Circular Economy, So Can Anyone

Overhauling the traditional take-make-waste business model can be daunting, but these initiatives demonstrate that the payoff for experimentation and boundary-pushing is worth it.

Not Impossible And HP Help A Man Suffering From ALS Speak For the First Time In 15 Years

Mick Ebeling and his merry hackers once again tap technology to help solve a human problem.

Meghan Trainor’s New Video Was Created By HP With Vine, Instagram And YouTube Stars

What Futurists Think Of HP’s Bold And Weird New PC

How HP Found The Best And Biggest Wave That’s Never Been Surfed

New short documentary uses technology to help big wave surfer Ian Walsh seek out the Ghost Wave.

A Coffee Brand Saves Kids From Gangs, Robots Invade The Museum: The Top 5 Ads Of The Week

A branded farewell, Vines on TV, an after-dark robotic museum tour, coffee versus gangs, and America’s greatest fictional soccer coach.

How Extreme Weather Is Already Draining The Biggest U.S. Companies, By The Numbers

Pepsi, Allstate, Walmart, and dozens of other S&P 500 corporations reveal the costs they face as climate change worsens.

Is HP Really Shunning Windows 8, Or Is This Just A Cheap Marketing Ploy?

HP is now pushing PCs with Windows 7 instead of Microsoft’s latest OS. But not for the reasons you’d think.