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Inspiration highlights innovative initiatives and people influencing the tech industry while narrating the tales behind the ideas. It’s a place to honor originality, tenacity, and ground-breaking concepts that encourage others to pursue their dreams and make them a reality.
How TED makes us all smarter
There was once a time when being a geek or a nerd wasn't cool until you bought your first Porsche....
The conclusion to an immovable object meeting an unstoppable force will surprise you
Leave it to the folks at Minute Physics to give enjoy thinking harder than you really want to for under...
Hydrophobic coating is the coolest product demonstration you’ll see all day
Hydrophobic and oleophobic coating may sound like something boring that you'd find in a college chemistry textbook, but it also...
A “smart” science lesson
Intelligence, from a scientific perspective, is a broad, and deep comprehension—"catching on,” “making sense,” of things, or “figuring out” what...
Geeks win with the Star Wars flash drive Pez dispenser
The Pez is strong with this one. If there's one thing we've learned about true geeks over the years, it's...
3 rules about powerful trolls that every publicist must know
The internet didn't create trolls. It made them more widespread because it made being one easier. There are many publications...
Best internet entrepreneurs of 2012
2010 saw the launch of what are now two major social media websites - Pinterest and Instagram. These two companies,...
5 tips for launching a product
There are many ways to go about launching a new product, and there are many ways to fail before you...
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What are the most successful startups since 2004? [infographic]
The year 2004 was the year that would change the way the world would communicate forever. We did not know...
Data footprints by generations
Over the first few thousand years of our existence (up until 2003), humankind generated 5 billion GB of data. Today,...
Mysterious purple slime balls pop up in Arizona desert
Are they alien eggs, fungal growths, or wet air freshener balls? Those are the questions being asked about thousands of...
UFO activity in January, 2013
Every month we cover the UFO activity for the previous month using some excellent footage that is compiled by AnonymousFO....
The absolutely terrifying potential ramifications of the energy department hack
There are four primary ways that a malevolent entity, whether it be terrorists or a foreign state, could go about...
How to slow global warming: “work less” says liberal think tank study
Tell your boss that you're not trying to be lazy. You're helping the environment. That's the report from the Center...
Mother knows best: how mommy blogs can change the lives of the parentless
What would you say if I told you that the tools you need to accomplish everything you need professionally and...
You can’t eat it, but that doesn’t make this sushi made of LEGO less epic
Most people have heard of Iron Chef, the show that pits two master chefs and their teams against each other...
Surging popularity of pay tv in Europe
Pay-TV is skyrocketing in popularity all throughout Europe. Ninety-five operators across 25 countries in the European pay-TV market added 10...
Adding insult to injury for CBS and CNET: Hopper wins CES award anyway
The CES Best of Show award is a big deal, so this isn't exactly a case of the Streisand Effect,...
Lady Gaga loses 156M YouTube views in latest crackdown
Lady Gaga joins Beyonce, Chris Brown, and Michael Jackson as artists whose YouTube channels had artificially inflated views struck from...
Daily deals are dying
In 2011, we wrote about how Groupon must fail to save the internet. At the time, there were already some...