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A Canadian experiment to test the kindness of strangers has provided an unsettling result. After making the trek from Boston to Philadelphia, hitchBOT — a hitchhiking robot that had captured the hearts of fans worldwid...

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 “The minute a major Silicon Valley VC sets up a branch in Mexico, you will be out of business,” a Mexican founder told me over dinner at last year’s Mexico VC Day in San Francisco. I did not respond, because I ac...

 “We’re watching you.” This was the warning that the Chicago Police Department gave to more than 400 people on its “Heat List.” The list, an attempt to identify the people most likely to commit violent crime i...

OnePlus co-founder Carl Pei talks OnePlus 2, business model, third new phone this year          

Low pay and strict background checks make it difficult for the FBI to attract computer scientists. FBI is reviewing its recruitment process for attracting qualified candidates.

Create a social network or risk everything. That was the original pitch for Google's Facebook rival, Google+, a refrain hammered over and over by the social network's chief architect, Vic Gundotra, in meetings with the c...

You probably aren't a fan of showing up at the coffee shop right when there's a large line, or at the gym when there are no free machines. Wouldn't it be nice if you could find out how busy a place is at any given moment...

Tech startups rarely get a second chance if they fail, since they can't usually draw on the help of either a huge following or a pile of cash. However, the recently defunct Frontback is getting that rare reprieve. The se...

Eighty young women participated in Girls Who Code's first summer immersion program in greater LA.

When Microsoft said that its HoloLens headset would arrive "in the Windows 10 time frame," what did it mean, exactly? Thanks to a BBC interview with Satya Nadella, we now have a better sense of when this augmented realit...

Twitter had an up-and-down week, and Facebook's quarterly earnings went fine.

 Startups start with talent, and the talent, as we all know, seems to get younger every year. But it wouldn’t happen if children themselves were not introduced to the word of technology and engineering early, and show...

The Startup Nation has received an impressive $1.8 billion through funding rounds and acquisitions in July, more than the first half of 2015 and all of 2014

Uber is getting richer and richer. It's now valued at $51 billion after raising another $1 billion in funding, and it got to this stage two years faster than Facebook did. As always, the ride-sharing service has attracte...

Most of us barely remember a time before Netflix became a streaming video staple, but recent moves have put the once-floundering company on pace to become a full-fledged network of monstrous proportions. The post Why Net...

50 years ago, nearly half of the programmers in the business were women. Today, only 18 percent of college grads with a computer science degree have two X chromosomes. And in the workplace, it gets grimmer. The post Why ...

Not content with simply beating the shit out of LGBT people, Russia is now reportedly thinking of banning "gay emoji ", a move that I'm sure will prove instrumental in removing all gay propaganda from technology and the ...

Last year, the Obama Administration unveiled its plan to curb climate change with some of the stiffest environmental regulations yet. Tomorrow, President Obama will reveal the final rules, with targets that are even more...

 The K-Y-A in KYA Anlytics stands for “Know Your Audience,” and founder and CEO Jeff Weisbein said that’s exactly what he’s trying to help online publishers do. Weisbein has been in those shoes himself, have cre...

Our weekly app picks It's Appday Sunday and that means we're back with more of our favorites to share. Every week we bring a handful of great apps to the table and share them with everyone. Sometimes they are new apps, s...

Before August 1st, you could share the cheap shipping benefits of Amazon Prime with up to four other adults . Now, the company will limit sharing Prime benefits to two adults and four children--unless you already signed ...