9 Gorgeous Cityscapes That People Built In The New SimCity
The search for the best city in SimCity is on.Released earlier this week from EA and Maxis, the popular game allows creators to build and control their own personalized cities. Though the new game has...
View ArticleOracle Has Resolved A Messy Lawsuit With A New Jersey University (ORCL)
Oracle announced that it has "amicably resolved" its dispute with Montclair State University.The New Jersey university sued Oracle in 2011, claiming that a demonstration of the software Oracle would...
View ArticleCheck Out Google's Offices In Stockholm Which Honor Great Swedish Inventors...
Google has offices all over the world.And each office is unique to the place it's located. Sure, there are staples for each office like free food, massages, and often times, a slide.But the decor of...
View ArticleGoogle VP Urs Hölzle Suggests Facebook Is Ripping Off Google+ (FB, GOOG)
For the most part, the people of Silicon Valley don't publicly trash talk each other. Thankfully, Google VP Urs Hölzle is willing to break from this boring tradition.On his Google+ page, he links to a...
View ArticleGoogle Maps Might Be Banned In Germany Over A Patent Dispute (MSFT, GOOG)
The German courts are on the point of banning Google Maps over a patent dispute with Microsoft.A judge in Munich has told Google and its subsidiary Motorola Mobility that he is inclined to hold them...
View ArticleREVEALED: How Much Netflix Is Spending To Make Shows Like 'House Of Cards'...
Netflix is not doing its original programming on the cheap.Speaking at an event at UCLA, CAA agent Peter Micelli said, "The cheapest show is $3.8 million an episode ... 'House of Cards' started at $4.5...
View Article'The Single Biggest Problem That Apple Faces, And Almost Nobody Is Talking...
Apple's stock has tanked 40 percent since September.When things start going bad, people start looking for explanations. And when people start looking for explanations, they tend to focus on what...
View ArticleMankind Has Already Passed The Singularity And Is Soaring Into The Future
Look at the bleeding edge of urban North Atlantic or East Asian civilization, and you see a world fundamentally unlike any human past.Hunting, gathering, farming, herding, spinning and weaving,...
View ArticleHere Are Three Of The Most Exciting Startups Out Of TechStars Boston
After sorting through thousands of applicants for its three-month accelerator program, TechStars Boston recently announced the 14 startups in its spring 2013 class. Now in its sixth class, TechStars...
View ArticleSAMSUNG: No One Is Buying Microsoft's Surface, Windows 8 Isn't Very Good (MSFT)
More bad news for Microsoft and its new operating system, Windows 8.The president of Samsung's memory chip division, Jun Dong-soo, had a lot of negative comments about Microsoft in a meeting with...
View ArticleIt's A Little Weird Apple Hasn't Already Made A TV (AAPL)
Personal story: I got back home after a week away and my TV stopped working. It just wouldn't turn on no matter how many times I hit the power button.I inherited it — a 50-inch Samsung plasma TV — from...
View ArticleStartups Are Getting Sick Of NYC's Dirty, Overcrowded Coworking Spaces
Last year, I wrote an article in Business Insider about how the NYU Poly Incubator was one of the best coworking options in the city.Since that time, several startups in NYU Poly have had sizeable...
View ArticleYuri Milner: Meeting Mark Zuckerberg Was 'A Miracle'
Yuri Milner's investment firm Digital Sky Technologies poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Facebook in 2009.Vanity Fair's Bethany McLean interviewed him at an annual technology conference in...
View ArticleHow To Stay Safe And Anonymous On The Internet Using A Virtual Private Network
The internet can be a hairy place. How do you protect yourself?There are a number of things you can do to stay safe and anonymous. One of the strongest solutions is to use a VPN, or virtual private...
View ArticleYuri Milner's Advice To Founders: 'Think About All the Sh*t You Will Have To...
If Yuri Milner, a notable tech investor, could give aspiring entrepreneurs one piece of advice, he'd tell them this:Be prepared to deal with a lot of BS for your startup.At annual tech conference South...
View ArticleThe Way Elon Musk Manages 5 Kids And 3 Businesses Has People Up In Arms
Elon Musk is the founder of Tesla Motor Company, he's the chairman of SolarCity, and he created SpaceX.He also has five children.How does he manage it all?By responding to emails while he interacts...
View ArticleElon Musk Decided To Put Life On Mars Because NASA Wasn't Serious Enough
Elon Musk didn't know much about outer space. Yet he's built a company, SpaceX, that competes with NASA.Why did he decide to take on such a big mission? Musk explained to the audience at South by...
View ArticleZappos' Tony Hsieh Said To Have Bought 100 Teslas
Update: We reported this story after speaking with a VegasTechFund entrepreneur who seemed certain this had happened. But Hsieh tells us this is not the case. He says he has "never purchased a Tesla"...
View ArticleHow Elon Musk Hires: 'It Matters Whether Someone Has A Good Heart'
Technology entrepreneur and SpaceX founder Elon Musk told the audience at South by Southwest, a large conference in Austin, the biggest mistake he's ever made.It has to do with hiring the wrong...
View ArticleDesigners Showed Us How To Make Google Glass Look Fashionable And More...
Google Glass is actually a pretty good design. But can it be better?Two designers think they've come up with an improvement.Nickolay Lamm and Mark Pearson have come up with a concept design that hides...
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