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Social media data provider Gnip announced today that Chris Moody, its Chief Operating Officer and President, has been named the company’s (...)

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Laura Sydell covers the intersection of technology and culture for NPR, but she doesn’t encounter many women on her beat (...)

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Most people prefer that their artificial parts stay under the radar. The prosthetics built by Sophie de Oliveira Barata intentionally (...)

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A is for API, B is for Beta, C is for Craft. J is for jQuery. Designers are like kindergarten teachers for grown-ups. Their (...)

These maps of how fast the buses drive through Boston offer a beautiful look at the city’s transit system. Real-time bus (...)

The SmartWoman Project hopes that text messages can be a medium for knowledge, health, and financial empowerment. When women (...)

The Shazam Engagement Rate analyzes viewers’ engagement with ads in Shazam to reflect which campaigns perform the best, on (...)

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A photographer imagines ancient figures as bearded, Ray-Ban bespectacled hipsters. “What is a hipster?” The question (...)

More than 20% of global emissions are now either taxed or traded. But the question remains: will adding economic incentives to (...)

The competition challenged businesses to come up with sustainable fishing models that were interesting enough to attract VC dollars. (...)

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This is a guest post by Shanna Mallon from Straight North. Using social media is about more than promoting yourself and your brand—It’s (...)

Google is updating its search results pages on the desktop today to show an interactive “carousel” of nearby restaurants, bars (...)

Microsoft’s efforts to promote the Xbox One on Facebook have devolved into an old-fashioned ASCII art flame war. Xbox One and PlayStation (...)

Facebook for iOS has gotten a small update today that adds a couple of nice changes. Foremost is the ability to very quickly edit (...)

Walls of Freedom is a comprehensive look at the provocative visuals that helped overthrow a regime during the Arab Spring. Walls (...)

Economist and Freakonomics author Steven Levitt talks about finding the story in data, the importance of authenticity, and his (...)

Charles Day outlines four perhaps unexpected but effective weapons that the best creative leaders use in their battle for creativity (...)

Hilary Mason, chief scientist at Bitly, makes meaning out of massive data sets. Or, as she describes it, she "pushes potential (...)

Moore, Oklahoma, was hit by a devastating tornado that destroyed many things, including the local hospital. Now the town is taking (...)

The ATT-powered devices will make their debut in the city’s parks today, ensuring no calls or texts get missed. A year (...)

FiftyThree, the studio that created one of the iPad’s best apps, just landed $15 million in funding. We talked to the team (...)

Like many others, I continue to be impressed by the open-source Apache Hadoop software framework. With aplomb, it manages Big Data, (...)

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Cue The Battle To (Somehow) Regulate 3-D-Printed Guns Well, this should make for a debate that’s as contentious as possible. (...)

Like a magician, Berndnaut Smilde conjures up miniature indoor clouds. Anyone who has tried drawing or painting clouds knows (...)

MTV Insight’s just published study, which shines a light on younger millennials ages 14-17, aims to make musicians, marketers, (...)

New evidence suggests that the quality of air mothers breathe while pregnant could affect their kids. Nobody knows what exactly (...)

Ilona Gaynor is planning a slew of robberies and calling it art. There’s an ineffable beauty in a well-planned heist. (...)

Task management service Asana released an update to its application today that is meant to help teams better share information and (...)

First created purely as a research project, Microsoft’s social network site So.cl has now launched with a new user interface (...)

Google Hangouts competitor Rounds has just announced the launch of a new “co-browsing” feature which lets friends browse a limited (...)

UPDATE: Google has informed us that there is inaccuracy in what we have reported below so read on with caution. We will update this (...)

Nuance Communications today released an update to its Dragon Mobile Assistant app for Android. Users with supported devices will find (...)

Those of us who blog about tech in Asia do our best to give adequate attention to all parts of the continent, but for various reasons, (...)

Qihoo, the Chinese tech giant best known for its antivirus software, has launched its own mini wireless router, indicating an interest (...)

In anticipation of The Lone Ranger, Disney is sending horseback statues of the film’s heroes on a cross-country path fans (...)

People used to buy keepsake knickknacks to point to old memories. Now we create those artifacts digitally with certain viewers (...)

In anticipation of the G8 summit next week, the Open Knowledge foundation just released a report on how open government data really (...)