With Congress’ approval ratings in the single digits, and in the midst of an ugly political season, our legislature might not appear as a hopeful place to start putting U.S. democracy back on track. Shows that depict Congress as sinister and conspiratorial don’t help its dismal r … | Continue reading

Many have interpreted Facebook’s move to “block the blockers” as a sign that Facebook is prioritizing its relationship to advertisers over users. It’s actually far more subtle. Facebook is trying to find — and own — the middle ground that neither advertisers nor publishers have b … | Continue reading

GUEST: From the compromise of voting machines to the recent hacking of the Democratic National Committee emails, you have surely heard concerns about the possible rigging of this already bizarre US election. Even Secretary Hillary Clinton’s unauthorized email server may have been … | Continue reading

A U.S. space probe was cleared for launch on Thursday to collect and return samples from an asteroid in hopes of learning more about the origins of life on Earth and perhaps elsewhere in the solar system, NASA said on Tuesday. | Continue reading

GUEST: The first week on any college campus is hectic, but what if there was a digital assistant available 24/7 to help new students and their families navigate the college processes? With chatbots rapidly infiltrating every aspect of our personal lives, it’s no surprise that stu … | Continue reading

Box CEO Aaron Levie has been at it for more than a decade. For a guy barely past 30, that means it’s all he’s done professionally for his entire adult life. You could forgive him if he were thinking about another challenge, but even after all this time, the fire still clearly bur … | Continue reading

Need a good game for the weekend? The Google Play Store is currently selling 15 titles for 60% off! This brings the prices down to anywhere between $0.99 and $3.99! | Continue reading

Richard Madden — best known for his role as Robb Stark in Game of Thrones — has signed on to the lead role for Strange New Things, a new television pilot that has been picked up by Amazon Studios. Continue reading… | Continue reading

I tend to associate film festivals with crushing crowds, hours-long waits, and being stranded in beautiful places under the ugliest possible circumstances. All of which led me to go through my second day here at the Toronto International Film Festival with a sort of dumb wonder: … | Continue reading

Designed by Christian Rice Architects, the Georgia Street Residence is located just east of the Hillcrest neighborhood in San Diego. | Continue reading

Located on a mountaintop adjacent to the Cleveland National Forest and San Pasqual Valley, Casa Aguila is a rural property rebuilt from ... | Continue reading

GUEST: In recent years, we’ve seen a spate of movies and TV shows suggesting that robots will soon be so realistic and life-like that humans will form deep connections and yes, even fall in love. Movies like “Ex Machina” or the British TV show “Humans” both depict scenarios where … | Continue reading

Kinetise, an app building platform and Disrupt hackathon favorite, aims to democratize the the the process of creating native mobile apps for iOS and Android in the enterprise. Using a drag-and-drop interface, the system essentially lets you build and deploy native apps, visually … | Continue reading

GUEST: Like a lot of tech entrepreneurs in the Midwest, I get asked a lot why my startup, ABODO, isn’t in Silicon Valley. I hear it even more after the release of reports like this one from the Kauffman Institute, which ranked the state of Wisconsin dead last of all large states … | Continue reading

When you’re describing a business or piece of software, it’s often best to explain it in relation to something familiar. If I were explaining the concept behind Uber to someone, I’d say, “It’s like using a taxi, but you can summon it from your phone.” In a similar way, if I were … | Continue reading

On Thursday, the small Appalachian city of East Liverpool, Ohio, posted photographs on Facebook of a man and woman apparently passed out from an opioid overdose. The two adults sit slumped in the front and passenger seats of a car. A small boy looks out from the back. The city wa … | Continue reading

A tiny little movie theater opened up a few blocks from my apartment last month. When I say tiny, I mean literally there are about 25 seats in the place. It mostly screens offbeat old films, and all tickets cost $8, which sounds expensive, but is legitimately a bargain in New Yor … | Continue reading

Picture this: a courtroom full of loud, impatient onlookers, all dead set on seeing your client jailed for a murder she didn’t commit. The prosecutor is a deeply religious lawyer who claims to have the ability to see the outcome of a trial before it happens, thus allowing him to … | Continue reading

GUEST: Six weeks ago, I wrote about skyrocketing VC funding in space tech companies. But according to brand new data from CB Insights, 2016 has actually seen a drop in investments following the 2015 surge I outlined. Moreover, some areas that VCs considered highly promising a yea … | Continue reading

Celebrities are keen on adopting righteous causes, but few are as vocal as Leonardo DiCaprio about his quest to save the planet from ecological collapse. "I am consumed by this," DiCaprio told Rolling Stone in a profile earlier this year.  "There isn’t a couple of hours a day whe … | Continue reading