We come bearing tidings of good savings from our friends at MAKE: get $100 off the regular price of the second annual two-day workshop designed for makers turning their projects into real businesses. The Hardware Innovation Workshop kicks off at th…
Each week Joshua Fruhlinger contributes This is the Modem World, a column dedicated to exploring the culture of consumer technology. It’s funny how things come back around. When I was growing up in the ’80s, music was looking back at the ’50s and …
2011 sure doesn’t feel like that long ago, but it’s evidently long enough for Verizon to realize that demand for innovation is booming in Silicon Valley. Not quite two years after the company cracked open the doors to its San Francisco-based Innov…
The New York Hall of Science is hidden away in the Corona corner of Queens, N.Y., a primarily Hispanic neighborhood below the city’s 7 subway line. Pupuserias and bodegas line pedestrian-filled 111th Street as it leads to the open swath of land occup…
Microsoft’s relatively often finding ways to encourage software development in various fields, and the company’s latest venture has it setting footsteps near the Great Wall. According to a report by news agency Xinhua, the software (and hardware) com…
As Apple and Samsung continue to wage war over patents, other tech companies like Google and Twitter are trying to make the patent landscape look a little bit less like a minefield. Microsoft is landing distinctly in the middle as it …
As The Maker Movement continues to pick up steam across America, the Obama administration is taking notice. Today the White House will hold a Google+ Hangout discussing the blossoming DIY community. Describing makers as “young people …
Google just announced the Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge, a new initiative whereby the company has promised not to sue developers, distributors, and users of open source software utilizing Mountain View’s patents “unless first…
Six weeks ago, Jace Cooke and Alex Chung, two of the hackers in residence at New York innovation lab Betaworks, shared a fun little product they had cobbled together with about twenty friends. It was called Giphy, and it lets users se…
Following a visit to North Korea, Eric Schmidt has continued his impromptu pan-Asia internet freedom tour with a focus on India. In an op-ed written for The Times of India, Schmidt lays out the opportunity facing the world’s largest d…
