Drones aren’t delivering pizza just yet. But they could soon help save lives in places where health care is hard to reach. It’s going to be a while before Amazon’s drones are deliverin... Read more
Vestaron makes an eco-friendly pesticide derived from spider venom. Bagaveev uses 3-D printers to make rocket engines for nanosatellites. Transatomic Power is developing a next-generation re... Read more
DEAR reader, what kept you? Perhaps you were visiting film-streaming service Netflix, discussion forum Reddit, blogging site WordPress or any of dozens of other popular websites where users... Read more
Researchers at UCC have developed a microneedle-based patch that results in increased vaccine-induced protection against malaria infection using lower doses of vaccine in pre-clinical testin... Read more
BRCK’s device keeps people connected no matter where they are on Earth. And in a reversal of globalization, it’s made in America, for the rest of the world. Flip over most any Ap... Read more
One persistent criticism of the tech industry is that it no longer works on big ideas. For all of Silicon Valley’s talk of changing the world, critics say, Google and Facebook mainly hire ar... Read more
The most important word in the technology industry is “innovation.” It is also the most dangerous. Silicon Valley companies lobby for relief from government regulation and tax so they may in... Read more
Billionaires With Big Ideas Are Privatizing American Science Last April, President Obama assembled some of the nation’s most august scientific dignitaries in the East Room of the White House... Read more
There’s more to it than geography and corporate culture After decades of bafflement and frustration, the world is still struggling to guess the secret of Silicon Valley’s success. Sure, the... Read more
It is probably wise to take Thiel’s idea of an end to aging (or at least its radical postponement) seriously. It does not seem that long ago that the Beatles could plausibly portray geriatri... Read more
May offer a path to lower payment processing and more secure transactions The currency known as bitcoin — a much-hyped and much-doubted type of digital cash that can be bought with tradition... Read more
Yuri Milner, the Russian entrepreneur and investor, attracted some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names to join him in starting a life sciences prize this year. Now, he has wooed a titan from C... Read more
In the ranks of technology incubator programs, there is AngelPad here in San Francisco and Y Combinator about 40 miles south in Mountain View. And then there is the Pentagon. In the last yea... Read more
Connecting kids to lots of interesting experiences has become a lot easier with Skype in the Classroom, a program from the online phone service that connects students with guest speakers and... Read more
“Learning and improving and continuous adaptation to a user’s needs will be central to bRight.” As I sit here tapping away at my keyboard, I’m flanked by a computer s... Read more
