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(Reuters) – Zander Dejah, 25, pays $1,900 a month rent to live in a downtown San Francisco house with at least 40 other people, many of whom sleep in bunk beds. Dejah is a resident of The Negev, a communal living space...

Technical skills and expertise are valuable, but these attributes define which employees are seen as the favorite employees of all time.

Immigration. Women’s equality. Transgender rights. These are just three of the most recent social issues that have found their way into the spotlight of our political consciousness. They aren’t new to the scene, as p...

GUEST: By now, business leaders across the globe are well aware of the recent announcement by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) that it will temporarily suspend premium processing for H-1B visas petit...

A classic rookie mistake, when you want to stimulate a culture of innovation, is to think you can start from zero. Better to kick things off with a stimulating innovation prompt, like the following, which I've gathered d...

Consumers are willing to pay more for products made by employee-owners on par with organic and fair trade certified brands.

Girls in Tech, the San Francisco-based nonprofit that promotes girls and women in technology jobs, kicked off a global series of hackathons with its first event in Melbourne, Australia. Dubbed Hacking for Humanity, the e...

So, just what types of jobs are moving from desks to freelance enterprises? The simple answer is that this is occurring in all career sectors but here are 10 of them.

GUEST: Every time I return to India to visit colleagues and family, I'm amazed to see how quickly smartphone adoption has overtaken the country. On my visit to Bangalore last month, seemingly every person I passed on the...

Below is a list of five Alexa skills worth trying selected from trending, customer favorites, and top enabled skills in the Alexa Skills Marketplace. To enable any of the skills below you can search for them in your Alex...

GUEST: Sony doesn’t need the Super Bowl. GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention analytics from 10 million smart TV screens, to bring you a monthly report on how ga...

The growing need for tech designers is driving the industry to seek out multi-disciplinary talent and leading to more inclusive hiring practices. Highlighting this trend, John Maeda, former design partner at Kleiner Perk...

We've all been there. We make what we think is a rational decision and seconds, minutes or days later we wonder "What was I thinking?!". Discover how to stop making stupid decisions and start making smart ones by underst...

I must apologize in advance to the society for the prevention of cruelty to dinosaurs. In a recent demo of CloudGate Studio‘s Island 459 virtual reality game, I kicked a little dinosaur known as a Compsognathus, which ...

During UploadVR’s interview with HTC's president of Vive in China Alvin Graylin last week, I asked if the company had any more plans for add-on peripherals for its VR headset -- like its upcoming Vive Tracker -- in 201...

This week, Tech.eu tracked 11 technology M&A transactions and 65 tech funding deals totaling €416 million (about $444 million) in Europe, Turkey and Israel. Here's an overview of the 10 biggest European tech news items...

Facebook today announced the launch of a voice search feature for its Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) headset and Samsung’s Gear VR headset. It’s available now in beta for people who use English as their primary lan...

Think twice about connecting those sex toys to the Internet: A vibrator company has agreed to pay up to $10,000 to U.S. customers who used a smartphone app that relayed their data to the firm’s server. In a settlement ...

The Texas Court of Appeals affirms a turnover order against a debtor-member of an LLC where the LLC itself held the judgment against the debtor member, holding that so-called charging order exclusivity doesn't make any s...

In Ann Arbor, you can now get doughnuts and milk delivered at midnight. The deal is a home run for the 83-year-old Washtenaw Dairy.

Microsoft this week unveiled Project Lively, an Office add-in that can automatically refresh files when other people update them. It’s the latest thing to come out of Microsoft Garage, an operation that develops experi...

At least four liberal, reform-minded or anti-establishment people are expected to run for president in one of South Korea's toughest times: the former president has been fired, North Korea is testing missiles and China i...