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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.
Your social media. It needs more cowbell.
"I gotta have more cowbell!"It has become one of the most popular skits in Saturday Night Live history. When Chistopher...
Game of Thrones as told by Peter Falk to Fred Savage
"I brought you a special present," Peter Falk tells a tiny Fred Savage.There haven't been many shows that have as...
White nose syndrome: the mysterious bat fungus that threatens entire species, everyone else
We know what it is. We know what it does. We have an idea of how it's being spread. Despite...
Netflix gets social thanks to email spying bill
Netflix has wanted to go social for a long time. They have been held back by an antiquated law that...
To help with the cost of saving the world, superheroes should take on sponsors
Let's face it. Not every superhero can live the life of Bruce Wayne or Tony Stark. Some might even contend...
Apparently in North Korea, the surgeons can cook a mean soufflé
They say you shouldn't judge by appearances or even fashion styles. Einstein often looked like someone who couldn't even dress...
7 sci-fi TV shows that desperately need a reboot
Television show reboots rarely go well. Even when the source material was stronger than the what the old television techniques...
How social engineering works
When you combine the common old school methods of grifting with the technological advancements of hacking and social research, you...
Can the Yellow Jacket stun gun cell phone case take personal safety to the next level?
Most people do not own or regularly carry personal protection weapons such as mace or stun guns. Those who do...
The basics of online tracking
There are two sad realities about online tracking. One reality is that the majority of people have their online activities...
The relationship era as discussed at #SXSW
When it comes to advertising today, things have changed. In some ways it's due to social media.Searching for "I Love...
I’d love to tell you all about Al Gore’s speech at SXSW but I was kicked out
Given the options of sitting far, far away in the mezzanine or trying to sneak up to the front with...
Lamborghini Veneno is named after a bull that killed a matador in 1914
They say it's going to be the fastest supercar, ever. They say it's going to cost the three people who...
The Reddit panel at SXSW was a debacle and nobody really needs to care
You can mark it down as "they just don't get me." There was really no chance that they would, anyway,...
Analog spambot in action
Email spammers can reach hundreds of thousands of people in a very short amount of time before their domain is...
The most successful email subject line for Obama’s campaign was “hey”
President Obama's successful re-election campaign last year was marked by many technological victories. They won most of the many battles...
Tardigrades survive just about anything and scientists still don’t know why
They can survive temperatures near absolute zero or as high as 300 degrees. The crushing pressure at the bottom of...
It’s not just a Ferrari. It’s LaFerrari.
Unlike its other supercar competitors, Ferrari does not come out with many big announcements. They pace it at around 1...
Quirky video shows a Dyson vacuum sucking up fire
You can mark this one down for the "do not try this at home" category for two reasons. The first...
Tony Stark is absolutely grumpy about the new Iron Man 3 trailer
In the first Iron Man movie, Tony Stark was clever and bold. In the second, he was confused but arrogant....