Why You Can't Learn To Code Without Open Source
This article includes interviews with Jay Borenstein, a Stanford lecturer and Facebook's education modernizer, and GitHub cofounder Scott Chacon.Tech companies want to see computer science students...
View ArticleYour Dream House Could Be Buried In Big Data
This article includes an interview with Urban Compass's Alex Stern.While the Internet's made it easier to browse and search real estate options, anyone who's shopped for a house or apartment knows many...
View ArticleHow To Use Data Science In Your Publicity Campaign
This article includes an interview with Spokepoint cofounder Dan Siegel.Most advertising is all about statistics. But when it comes to getting press, most companies still use traditional "PR," personal...
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How Open Source Helped Segment.io Grow A Healthier Company
This article includes interviews with Segment.io's Calvin French-Owen, Diana Smith, and Ian Storm Taylor.Segment.io builds tools to help companies more easily connect their websites to analytics and...
View ArticleHack Your Kitchen With This Smart Sous Vide Machine
This article contains an interview with Lisa Fetterman, the CEO and cofounder of Nomiku.Sous vide cooking, where food is cooked in airtight bags immersed in a water or steam bath at a precise...
View ArticleThese Cleaning Bots Work for Less Than Minimum Wage
This story includes an interview with Avidbots cofounder Faizan Sheikh.The founders of Avidbots, graduates of Ontario's University of Waterloo, initially planned to build robots for a task familiar to...
View ArticleAre 3-D Video Capsules The New Family Photo Albums?
This story includes an interview with Yourbot founder Ekim Kaya.Before photography became widespread, the average person had no way of knowing what their ancestors from just a few generations past...
View ArticleSwipe Left, Swipe Right, But Why?
Swipe left. Swipe right. It's such a small gesture that packs such a big punch.After Tinder launched about two years ago, its dead-simple user interface helped propel the app--and its interface--into...
View ArticleCan Facebook's Open Source Switch Democratize Networking Hardware?
This article includes an interview with Najam Ahmad, Facebook's director of technical operations, and James Kelleher, senior analyst at Argus Research.In the 1990s and early 2000s, tech companies moved...
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Meet The Sensor Startup That's Making NYC Apartments Warmer This Winter
This article includes interviews with Heat Seek NYC's William Jeffries, Tristan Siegel, Daniel Kronovet, and Jarryd HammelEvery New York City winter brings stories of residents shivering in their...
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These Athletic Wearables Aim To Stop Injuries Before They Happen
This article includes interviews with Jolt's Benjamin Harvatine, Reebok's Paul Litchfield, Boogio's Jose Torres, Scribe Labs' Tim Clark, and Purdue University professor Thomas Talavage.With...
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What Squirt Gun Assassination and $666 Burgers Can Teach You About Consumer...
This article includes an interview with RPMGRP creative director and Street Wars creator Franz Aliquo.Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg once suggested that Franz Aliquo might be in need of...
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Smart Sensors Let You Monitor Your Home Any Way You Want
This article includes an interview with Notion cofounder and CEO Brett Jurgens.Lots of smart home products are Internet-powered replacements for appliances you already have in your home: lights and air...
View Article5 Ways Rent The Runway's CTO Turns Data Into Beauty
Customers use Rent the Runway to pick out designer dresses and have them delivered in time for a special event. Then they send the dresses back to be dry-cleaned and sent to the next customer in line....
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Myontec's Smart Shorts Will Measure Your Athletic Performance From Below The...
Sports wearables already take the form of wristbands, leg bands, headbands, and shirts. Now the Finnish company Myontec is bringing performance measurement and injury prevention technology directly...
View ArticleData-Driven Debt Collection Startup TrueAccord Has Some Advice To Help Get...
This article includes interviews with TrueAccord cofounders Ohad Samet and Nadav Samet.Plenty of companies use data to turn leads into sales, or turn one-time clients into repeat buyers through...
View ArticleThe Key To Successful Pair Programming? Patience And Humility
This article includes interviews with CoderMatch's Joanne Daudier, Hackerbuddy's David Peiris, and pair-programming advocate Joseph Moore.Picture computer programmers, and you probably think of workers...
View ArticleContratados: A Yelp To Help Migrant Workers Fight Fraud
Every year, more than 100,000 Mexican migrant workers are recruited to travel to the United States on temporary employment visas (and many more arrive unofficially). They find themselves with little...
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Recycle Your iPhone Into A Home Security System
There are lots of home monitoring devices on the market with built-in cameras, motion sensors, smoke detectors, and microphones to pick up unusual sounds, along with Wi-Fi or cell connectivity to...
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Oh, Snap! '90s Web Design Is Hot Again
The screech of dialup modems. Brightly colored, blinking text scrolling across a flickering screen. Web rings and under-construction GIFs and tinny Pearl Jam MIDIs.For years, the 1990s Web has mostly...
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