Liz Gannes in News on May 2 at 7:00 am PT
Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today are launching a nonprofit, open source joint online learning venture called EdX, with the first courses to start in the fall of this year.
To simplify the search [for the next great companies], I suggest you look within a five-mile radius of Stanford.
– Stanford graduate Peter Thiel, in conversation with Reid Hoffman
Liz Gannes in News on April 27 at 6:00 am PT
Charlie Rose aired a pair of interviews this Wednesday with Sebastian Thrun and Jack Dorsey, two tech guys who have much in common.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on April 27 at 5:30 am PT
Not clear on what Twilio is all about? Then someone has her job cut out for her.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 16 at 9:00 am PT
New location-sharing apps promise to provide more value to users than ever — but they will surely teeter awfully close to the edge of creepy for many people.
Liz Gannes in News on January 25 at 2:00 am PT
Stanford and Google’s Sebastian Thrun announced on stage that he is giving up his tenured professorship to teach free online courses at a new start-up he’s founded, called Udacity.
Voices
Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on January 13 at 4:06 pm PT
Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.
Liz Gannes in News on January 12 at 2:39 pm PT
Code Racer is an online game that pits newbie coders and designers against each other to demonstrate their basic skills — as fast as they can.
Liz Gannes in News on December 12, 2011 at 8:46 am PT
On Dec. 12, 1991, Paul Kunz set up a Web interface based on a Web server to search a popular database of particle physics literature, and sent an email to Tim Berners-Lee about it.
Drake Martinet in AsiaD on October 19, 2011 at 5:54 pm PT
After shrouding its digital camera in secrecy for the last many months, Lytro has made its big reveal, and showed up at
AsiaD to give a hands-on demo.