Work isn’t all about fun and games, but QuizUp is trying as hard as it can to change that. The popular and frustratingly addictive trivia game is announcing a new initiative today to change corporate learning with QuizUp at Work. The program allows corporations to take...
We live in a world of screens. And most Americans spend a lot of time with them — roughly 7.4 hours per day, by some estimates. And while screens help us work and stay in touch, they're not exactly...
When it comes to space exploration, one of the greatest pain points is the sheer cost of transporting cargo and astronauts into space, which by one estimate is $50 million a pop. Getting into space is the easy part, it’s the cost that holds people...
Now that Ethereum Frontier has launched, the only thing between us and cyber-utopia is an app. Not just any app–but a P2P blockchain app that makes normal people lots of money. And before that, we need an anti-hero willing to do the work of building...
For the last year, Google’s work force has increasingly been under attack from a herd of unicorns. The unicorns, a class of hot start-ups valued at $1 billion or more, are all aggressively pursuing the best and brightest minds in Silicon Valley with promises of talked-about...
If you’re considering solar power but aren’t quite sure it’s worth the expense, Google wants to point you in the right direction. Tapping its trove of satellite imagery and the latest in artificial intelligence, the company is offering a new online service that will instantly...
First the power goes out. It's not clear what's gone wrong, but cars are starting to jam the streets -- the traffic light are down. And something seems to be going haywire with the subways, too. No one can get to work. And even if they...
Facebook has rolled out a product in the United States that allows users to transfer money to each other via Facebook message. Your Facebook Messenger account is linked to a debit card. It’s an interesting premise and amazingly well executed. I haven’t seen a better...
In a prospectus filed today by the company, Tesla announced the intention to sell up to 2,100,000 shares of common stock. Underwriters will also receive a 30-day option to purchase up to 315,000 additional shares....
Google figured out something important: You can sell businesses the future, but they’ll show up with lots of the past. The company on Thursday showed off changes it had made to Chrome, its operating system for business computing, aimed at enabling companies to run most of...