Today, I received an unusual email. The message came from an investigator at Derish Associates, a San…
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Playing the lottery always has horrible odds. But it's even worse if, as Iowa authorities are alleging, one of the…
Yesterday, Jasmin Alhashemi, a high school senior from the Netherlands, tweeted a virtual call to arms: "Hi guys,…
The era of the pepper-spraying drone is upon us.
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After a grueling five-week trial and three days of deliberations, a jury in San Francisco found that Kleiner Perkins…
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It's tax season, which means that people all over America are nervously meeting with their accountants or sitting…
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Ruth Porat, the longtime chief financial officer of Morgan Stanley, was for many years considered the "most powerful…
Back in 2007, I went undercover to Liberty University, the ultra-conservative evangelical Christian school in…
Earlier this week, tech journalist Kara Swisher tweeted a photo of Twitter/Square co-founder Jack Dorsey. Normally,…
Yesterday, the White House named its first-ever Director of Information Technology—David Recordon, an engineering…
If you can afford one $10,000 smart watch, you can probably afford two. And then you can donate your spare to an art…
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This week, YouTube rolled out a long-awaited ability to upload and view 360-degree videos.
It's like Uber, but for flat whites.
Late last year, Lilianna Hogan, an 18-year-old from Santa Cruz, California, went on vacation with her family in…
Lyft—Uber's spunky, mustachioed competitor—has always had the odds stacked against it. Uber is the 800-pound-gorilla…
Today, a start-up called Algorithmia officially launched to the public. It's a marketplace for bots, essentially—a…