Technology & Innovation

Once simply a countercultural festival in the middle of the desert, Burning Man is now as commercialized as the world it presumes to tune out. Out from this image shift has thrived an innovative, entrepreneurial spirit that resonates in the non-Burning Man world.

One image has had an incalculable effect on policy around the world, but is it even remotely representative of what happens in the real world? Children who have been neglected can look forward to a more positive outlook than this image would suggest.

A Canadian team, currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, has developed Tzoa – a wearable tracker equipped with an optical air quality sensor that can detect harmful particles.

Don Draper is the king of cool. After a sales pitch, he seems to have people ready to buy, but that’s not how the real world works. It’s about knowing your buyer and asking the right questions.

People are going to extremes to take better selfies and they aren’t climbing to mountain tops to do it. They’re going under the knife and getting plastic surgery.

Robots armed with weapons and programmed to act autonomously are already in the hands of national militaries.

PURPOSE: Set Goals, with John Amaechi In this lesson from Big Think+, NBA basketball player John Amaechi shares with you the plan he created as a child to help him […]

From 1950 to 1980, corporate profits accounted for six percent of nation’s gross domestic product. Since 1980, that amount has doubled to twelve percent.

The fortunes used for philanthropic purposes by American billionaires like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett will run dry just decades after their patrons pass away.

Small businesses that use status updates to advertise their products on Facebook will be less visible once new advertising rules take effect in January.

Banks and credit unions have found a new way to lure customers: for each deposit made, enter them in a lottery that pays out cash prizes. 

Black Friday is a symbol of American over-consumption and classist judgement. It’s a good thing that retailers want to do away with the event.

Airlines have a contradictory purpose: they want to fill as many seats as possible to make the operating costs of each flight as low as possible, but they also depend on ticket sales to make profit.

While companies tend to wait until week’s end to announce bad news, doing so opens them up to scrutiny.

Barbara Corcoran: Build a Powerful Brand Barbara Corcoran learned early the value of building a powerful brand. In this lesson she teaches you shortcuts for standing out amidst the noise […]

War, smoking, and obesity are straining the world’s economy, but there’s concern among researchers that obesity is most on the rise. If there’s not an action plan put in place, societies may be feeling the strain on more than just health-care costs.

Anxiety is not productive. The communications industry suffers from an existential crisis wrought by technological change. Standards have been upended, and the digital world — a universe of bits and […]

A second scientific experiment, this time in America, has established that telepathy is possible. 

Although the creation of the Internet is thought to mark a new era in human history, its effect on society, especially in economic terms, has proven unremarkable.

An addictive product should at least provide value to the consumer and improve their lives. E-mail is a good example. Candy Crush — not so much.

The wage gap between women has reduced in Britain, but Minister Nicky Morgan wants to see more changes. She may very well see change coming with the minds of the next generation.

Swiss researchers conducted an experiment gauging how bankers fared against other professions in a test in which cheating was easy and incentivized. Unsurprisingly, bankers — particularly those who had just prior been asked questions related to banking — were more likely to lie for financial gain.

The unexpected downturn in prices has many Americans flocking back to gas guzzling trucks and SUVs, setting back the trend of more fuel efficient and environmentally friendly vehicles.

Researchers at Columbia University have found that when stock traders come from different ethnic backgrounds, they are less likely to inflate the value of the financial products they are trading.

Terms of Service and end-user license agreements are difficult to read if not for the legal jargon then for the way they’re typed up. Web companies shouldn’t make it a chore to read these contracts before you click “Agree.” But it’s your job to demand them.

In this day and age, we and our gadgets are limited by the archaic ways we store our power. Tech guru Brad Templeton explains that a breakthrough in battery technology would spark an exciting wave of innovation and enable the future of computing to be realized.

Your Kindle software update may have already updated the fonts and graphics on your device, but did you know that a new feature will now allow you to treat e-books like real books and give you the ability to share them with your family members?

Wise Women Rise to the Top There’s a big difference between being smart and being wise, and also being intelligent, frankly, says futurist Edie Weiner. Why We Need More Women […]

Why aren’t millennials saving money? One reason is that the crippling recession has made the generation distrustful of banks. Another is that they hardly have any money to save, especially after paying down debt.

Google has launched “Google Bus Bangladesh,” an educational program aimed at teaching 500,000 young Bangladeshis about the internet. Bangladesh is the world’s 8th most populous nation yet many of its 157 million people remain offline.