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· Max Chang
Google, Yahoo and other tech giants are more likely to hire Asians as computer programmers than to promote them to management and executive positions, according to new research. The study was conducted by Ascend, a group focused on Asian business issues. They analyzed data filed…
· Editorial Staff
To college or not to college — it’s an important question for all millennials and entrepreneurs of a certain age. On the one hand, while there are the usual arguments for going for that four-year degree, such as the ones Harvard Business School professor Michael Norton gave to…
· Benny Luo
Anyone who follows the tech industry most likely have come across the name Jason Calacanis. In terms of being an entrepreneur, it’s safe to say that this man has gone through literally all the ups and downs of starting a business. After building a business valued at $70 million…
· Laura Dang
Ever paranoid that the driver picking you up at night might be a serial killer? Well, you might not be too far off — registered sex offenders, a kidnapper, a convicted murderer and identity thieves have all passed Uber’s background checks and been hired to drive for the company.…
· Laura Dang
A 26-year-old American was recently granted a visa to travel to North Korea for four days. Taylor Pemberton of Minneapolis flew into Pyongyang, North Korea, from Beijing, China, because there are no direct flights from the United States to the secretive military state. The young…
· Sebastian Dillon
For every barista at Starbucks, there will always be that one nightmare customer that they strain to serve with a smile, but no customer may be as annoying as this one. According to barista Brad Halsey, for nearly two weeks one man has been going to his local Starbucks and…
· Riley Schatzle
Unless you’re running for office, speaking in front of an audience is rarely a pleasure, especially when testifying against an accuser in a court of law. Thanks to a program called Courthouse Dogs, speaking in front of a jury will no longer be as stressful for some. Founded in…
· Benny Luo
Paul Terrell might not be a name you recognize, but he’s a technology pioneer. In December of 1975, Terrell opened The Byte Shop in Mountain View, California. At the time, Terrell’s shop was one of the first computer stores in the world. A year later, two 20-something tech geeks…
· Laura Dang
The technology that allows us to snap pictures on our phones in order to upload to Instagram and Snapchat was all thanks to engineer Steven Sasson, who invented the digital camera in 1975 at the age of 24 while working for Kodak, the biggest photographic film company at the…
· Riley Schatzle
Just about everyone and their mothers has played at least one of the four iconic games that came with older Windows operating systems — Solitaire, Minesweeper, Hearts and FreeCell — but not everyone knows that the games were designed for purposes greater than entertainment.…
· Riley Schatzle
In January, Bill Gates drank water that nearly 10 minutes before consumption was feces. Gates did this to illustrate the astonishing ability of a new machine called the Janicki Omniprocessor, a self-powered machine that turns human waste into clean drinking water.
· Jacob Wagner
A Chick-fil-A owner recently had to shut down his restaurant for five months due to renovations, but what he announced to his employees beforehand is what shocked them most of all. Jeff Glover is the owner of a Chick-fil-A store in Austin, Texas that employs 50 employees.…
· Max Chang
New Zealander David Hyde, 22, publicly resigned from his United Nations internship this week after revealing he had to resort to living in a tent in the Swiss city of Geneva because housing was too expensive and the UN doesn’t offer any pay or support for their interns.
· Editorial Staff
Silicon Valley has pretty much got it all: Google, Facebook, jobs that pay obscene amounts of money, a “startup castle,” its own language, shout-outs from rappers and crazy sex parties. That’s pretty much everything ever, right? Wrong.
· Laura Dang
Japanese engineer Kuniako Saito and his team at Cocoa Motors have developed a small portable transporter that Saito claims to be the world’s first “car in a bag.” The thin WalkCar transporter, which can fit in a backpack, is made from aluminium and weighs between 4.4 to 6.6…
· Laura Dang
Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who is the frailest one of all? A newly invented smart mirror equipped with a face-scanning gadget can give you the answer to that question.
· Max Chang
“Don’t smoke marijuana as a teenager because it will screw you up as an adult.” Countless teenagers have been told something like this, either through anti-marijuana propaganda or parental wisdom. And it makes sense — maybe introducing psychoactive drugs on a still-developing…
· Editorial Staff
Isis Anchalee is a 22-year-old college dropout who works as an engineer at San Francisco-based tech startup OneLogin. A little over a week ago, her company launched a new ad campaign that features her. The ad appeared all over the Northern California Bay Area.
· Editorial Staff
New research finds that musical training not only enhances a person’s musical ability but also plays a role in developing children’s emotional and behavioral maturity. The University of Vermont College of Medicine discovered that a child does not need to be a Mozart-playing…
· Riley Schatzle
A popular application that let Facebook users know which of their friends had unfriended them was shut down on Wednesday in a controversial move by the social networking company. Who Deleted Me was created by Anthony Kuske to be a “useful tool to enhance users’ Facebook…
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