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Building the University of the Future
"Higher education is now ground zero for disruption," said Todd Hixon in a Forbes column, questioning the value, cost, and the antiquated business model of higher education. That said, there are a...
View Article(VIDEO) Facebook Targets Publishers for Mobile Ad Delivery with LiveRail...
With its recent acquisition of LiveRail, an enterprise software company that manages programmatic video ad sales for publishers, Facebook is embracing a big opportunity to service publishers -- and,...
View ArticleTwo A.I. Chatbots Talk About Life, Argue About Everything
When you meet someone for the first time, chances are you don't start talking about the fourth dimension, reincarnation or the meaning of life within the first five minutes of conversation. But it...
View ArticleIf Women Designed Cars
I just bought a new car. I was going to go buy another Prius, which I've been quite happy with over the past eight years, but they...moved the armrest! In its place now is a metal cup holder. I had...
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How One Simple Mistake Turned Me Into a Spam Magnet
I've got nothing against spam...so long as it's clogging up someone else's inbox. But when you waste my time trying to sell me all kinds of crap or, worse, sucker me into wrecking the security of my...
View ArticleThis Single Mom And Her Son Are The Cutest Thing To Ever Hit Vine
Harmony Smith and her 8-year-old son Elliott are kind of a big deal on Vine. The mom-and-son duo are the creative forces behind a Vine channel with more than 396,000 followers. Sure, having Katy Perry...
View ArticleThese Are The Hong Kong Instagram Photos China Doesn't Want Its Citizens To See
Thousands of pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong have taken to social media to distribute photos and videos of the mass demonstrations that have taken hold of the city since Friday. The government in...
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Uber To Hire 50,000 Military Members And Veterans
Uber has pledged to significantly boost its pool of drivers from the military community, but the gesture is hardly a handout. The popular ride-sharing app, which connects everyday drivers with...
View ArticleSurprise. My Kids Don't Tell Me Everything.
I'm sitting at my kitchen table and I hear a ping, the one that indicates that someone has received a text. I check my devices and nothing appears. I look around and see my son's mini-iPad. Wow. Didn't...
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We Didn't Know It Was Possible To Write A Love Letter This Nerdy
Let's face it: grand displays of romance don't last forever. The love letters, flowers and exorbitant Valentine's Day gifts that marked those early days of your relationship were great... until you...
View ArticleToo Much of a Good Thing
Let's talk about addiction, I am not thinking about drugs but about technology. Have you ever seen yourself in a situation where you could not resist... another glass of wine, another piece of...
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Just Why Is Ello So Naive?
Challenging Facebook is not about delivering a naive message about privacy and freedom from ads. It is about understanding how we use the market, brands and technology to construct our moral...
View ArticleHow Hacking Education Has Taken Over Higher Education
Y-Combinator, the world-renowned Silicon Valley startup accelerator, recently announced its first ever college-level course on creating a successful startup at Stanford University. The course, "How to...
View ArticleThe Best of #BendGate
When Apple slips up, consumers and competitors alike just can't help but enjoy some major schadenfreude. Although #BendGate has not been nearly as much of an issue as the botched iOS 8.0.1 update that...
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The Venture Capital System 'Simply Does Not Work For Women,' Study Finds
The Silicon Valley money machine only seems to work for men, a painful new study reveals. Less than 3 percent of the 6,793 companies that received venture capital from 2011-2013 were headed by a woman,...
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RESPECT: Makes Young People Safer Online
Aretha said it in 1967 (scroll down to watch her sing it) The conversation around Internet safety has moved a long way since the 1990s when it focused mostly on porn and predators and we've even...
View ArticleNetflix To Release 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' Sequel
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," the Academy Award-winning martial arts film, is finally getting a sequel -- and it's going to be on Netflix. The streaming video (and DVDs-by-mail) company announced a...
View ArticleGet Involved in Your Startup Community - for Your Mental Health
The tricky thing about stress is that it drives us away from one of the best stress busters: people! "No time for breaks, no time for socializing," stress seems to say. "Must work, must work, must...
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Women in Tech You Need to Know
Good news, according to a report released by the Center for American Progress: The number of women-owned firms in the US grew by 59 percent from 1997 to 2013 -- 1.5 times the national average. Women of...
View ArticleWhy Scientists Need to Stop Being People Pleasers
"Supply and demand": It's a commonly used term that is so familiar that we don't even think about it. We all have an idea about what it means. If demand outstrips supply, the price of the thing that is...
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