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· Sebastian Dillon
Everyone has haters, especially those aiming to achieve success in life. It can be people that don’t believe in your work or those that just outright hate you for no apparent reason. While having haters brings negative energy to your life, they actually offer great benefits to…
· Editorial Staff
A new study this week calculated the percentages of millionaires in city populations around the world. By net worth alone, excluding their primary residence, the study found that 4.63% of New Yorkers, or around 389,100 people, are millionaires- and New York is only number four…
· Sarah Lesnar
A Japanese artist named Rokudenashiko was arrested on charges of obscenity for crowdfunding a 3D printed kayak shaped like her vagina. Her real name is Megumi Igarashi and she she allegedly broke obscenity laws by scanning her vagina and sending the 3D printer data to over 30…
· Editorial Staff
Once you read this article, you can officially say you’ve read them all. Scientists at the University of Exeter insist that smelling farts can prevent cancer as well as other major health problems. This story was reported by Time Magazine, so you know it’s not fake. In a…
· Editorial Staff
This is the story of Li Kai-Shing. Born in Guangdong province, China, Li Kai-Shing lost his father at age 14 to Tuberculosis. Being the man of the house now, he was forced to leave school to work at a plastics factory to support his family. The family was so poor that he had to…
· Editorial Staff
This trick is just too cool to pass up. At some point or another, we’ve all bought meat in bulk. You can’t possibly finish it all so you freeze it, but then when it comes time to eat it, you have a choice. Leave it out for a few hours on the countertop to defrost or heat it up…
· Benny Luo
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Robert Greene. For those of you who don’t know who he is, he’s a New York Times bestselling author of books like “The 48 Laws of Power” and the “ The Art of Seduction.” Robert is not just your typical author though. Unlike many…
· Editorial Staff
An unidentified inventor from Hunan Province, China may have just revolutionized the way people get to work and while it looks ridiculous, it might be exactly what China needs right now. We are calling it “the scootcase” because it looks like he literally mounted a suitcase to…
· Benny Luo
With news coming out in recent times of the many ways Google can track you, as well as the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program, the public is becoming more aware of the lack of internet privacy. These facts have led users to flock to an alternative. DuckDuckGo is a fast growing…
· Editorial Staff
When it comes to sushi, you either love it or you don’t. Sure it’s an acquired taste, but at least we all know what sushi is. Well apparently this Chinese student didn’t, and when she and her friends visited a rather famous sushi house while studying in Japan, she ended up…
· Sebastian Dillon
If there’s anything our generation is known for, it’s got to be our tendency to embrace entrepreneurship and our openness to the drug culture- we are all either really foolish, or really smart (we are the most well educated generation after all). When it comes to smart people,…
· Waylae Gregoire
We swear, with how fast the tech world moves, it seems entrepreneurs are getting younger… every month. When Michael Sayman was 12-years-old, he taught himself to code through tutorials he found on Google. At age 13, he created his first app, priced at one dollar, which made him…
· Benny Luo
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll know that the biggest news in basketball right now is about L.A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling’s lifetime ban from the NBA and the forced sale of his team due to his racist remarks against black people earlier this week. Among the…
· Liz Biscevic
Morning: Improves Productivity. Getting your heart rate up releases endorphins making you more awake and ready for the day. Working out can also increase clarity, meaning you’ll be able to tackle more of your daily tasks. Not to mention you’ll have a fresh, endorphin fueled glow…
· Benny Luo
Since it’s launch in 2007, SoundCloud has evolved from a small startup in Berlin to one of the top online audio distribution platforms in the world. To give you an idea of the company’s growth, SoundCloud recently told us that 12 hours of music and audio get posted every minute…
· Waylae Gregoire
Nothing in the tech world confuses us as much as Bitcoin it seems. What we do know about it is that it’s volatile and it can be worth a ton of money, but we hardly understand where it comes from, who invented it apparently, or what it is past being a crypto-currency- even that…
· Yunha Kim
What is it like to be a female in tech?
· Editorial Staff
In January 2006, corporate lawyer and small-business owner Fred Mwangaguhunga (try to say that five times straight) launched MediaTakeOut.com, a blog-style gossip website focused on urban celebrity news. Working with limited resources, the site has grown to be a big media power…
· Editorial Staff
Whether it’s closing a round of funding or an acquisition, we always hear about the successes of startups. However, we rarely hear about their beginnings. No, I don’t mean how they launched, but the very start of how the idea of some of today’s hottest startups were conceived.…
· Benny Luo
There are many different types of entrepreneurs- there are tech entrepreneurs, online entrepreneurs, and then there are rockstar entrepreneurs like Rap Genius co-founder Mahbod Moghadam. You’ve probably come across Rap Genius at some point, whether you are looking up lyrics to…
