Technology & Innovation

Portuguese citizens, despairing at the European economic crisis, are trying their luck in Angola, once a colony beset by conflict and now home to a thriving economy and a more affordable way of life.

In an attempt to mitigate the growing environmental nuisance caused by iguana overpopulation, Puerto Rico is offering incentives to businesses that will open slaughterhouses that will export iguana meat to eager customers in other countries.

A new book describes the honeycomb of elevated walkways and underground tunnels that make Hong Kong an example of a new kind of three-dimensional urbanism.

The weakness of online education, as far as I can tell, is the evaluation of student performance.

A company’s new app represents a bold effort to keep customers’ attention on their TVs while also making a statement about the future of digital media interaction.

What’s the Big Idea? When it comes to making choices about benefits, keep it simple, says Bruce Finley, Senior Partner and the Director of Global Workplace Communication at Mercer — and calculate, […]

What’s the Big Idea? It started with furniture, Kip Tindell remembers. When the Dallas-based entrepreneur set out with his partners to launch a venture in 1978, the idea was to sell […]

A recent study from the University of Michigan has put to bed old ideas about sexting. The study concludes that sexting can be a normal, healthy aspect of dating.

After raising $8.5 million on Kickstarter, developers of the Ouya console aim to revolutionize the gaming industry with apps and open sourcing.

The technology to instantaneously track people through their computer and cell phone use is already widespread, but now the technology can predict where you’ll be tomorrow or next week.

Websites and Apps often have overly-complicated, legalese-filled Terms of Service that basically force you to click “I agree.” A new company wants to inform you about what exactly you’re agreeing to.

In order to remake the economy to increase the well-being and happiness for all people, there are some new proposed tenets of economic freedom to address.

According to a report by Goldman Sachs, exports of Iran’s oil have dropped by almost 1.4 million barrels a day.

Through luck or sheer force of will, these seven former interns all managed to make it from paper-pushing, truck-loading, and (literally) shit-shovelling to the very top of their fields. Many went […]

Several research projects are currently working to make robots more responsive to children’s needs, and new research suggests that the physical presence of robots helps kids learn. 

The latest US Jobs report diffuses concerns about America heading back in a recession.   

Google’s attempt at building a piece of hardware to manage your household’s digital media flow has been pulled from the shelves, demonstrating the difficulty of all-encompassing technology.

Today’s mobile phones are yesterday’s supercomputers, which make them powerful enough to suit the needs of aerospace engineers, who want to create a future of micro-satellites. 

An open source text messaging platform developed by Unicef is coordinating humanitarian projects in several African nations, helping to distribute food aid and treat HIV more effectively. 

Research shows that cross-generational gameplay can help children learn valuable lessons while simultaneously educating adults about current technology. It’s time to get our game on.

Revolutionary software fields students’ questions as they arise naturally in the studying process, filling gaps in background knowledge and producing higher exam scores as a result.

A growing number of researchers are using websites like Twitter and Facebook to monitor our well-being in a way that seemed impossible not long ago.

Businesses are getting smarter about pensions – learning how to maximize returns on their investment and make good on their promises to workers. This translates into greater employee loyalty, more competitive hiring, and a more stable corporate infrastructure.   

Based on data reports, the states that receive the most government funding spend the most per capita, have the highest median household income and highly populated.

The latest US Jobs report diffuses concerns about America heading back in a recession. 

The US remains the world’s leading destination for FDI, accounting for 15 percent of global flows. China accounts for two percent of that flow and wants to invest more, but it raises national security and economic concerns.

What’s the Big Idea? What does the millennial generation want? Today’s recent graduates may still be finding themselves, but the culture has plenty of labels ready. Are they confident or anxious? Rebels against […]

Learning guru John Seely Brown is not being even slightly ironic when he says that he’d hire an expert player of World of Warcraft (the massive multiplayer online fantasy videogame) over an MBA from Harvard.   

If you want to adopt a new lifestyle that pays big returns, work less. Our idea that dogged labor produces the best results is relatively new and at odds with our knowledge of human performance.

Women want to have the career, husband and the kids, but to have it all is very difficult—and it isn’t because women are incapable of doing it all.