The Physics of Wireless Charging
The first thing you need to know about wireless charging is that it doesn’t require wires.

September 8, 2014 at 3:05PM
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Amicus App: How Tech Investors Are Failing on Due Diligence
Tech investors gave Seth Bannon millions of dollars, even though they knew almost nothing about him.

September 8, 2014 at 1:27PM
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Microsoft is paying the NFL millions to use Surface, but the announcers still can’t remember its name
Microsoft spent $400 million on an advertising and equipment deal with the NFL, but it seems like someone forgot to tell the announcers.

September 8, 2014 at 11:11AM
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New Service Offers Taxis Exclusively for Women
New Yorkers can already choose from yellow taxis, green cabs or black livery cars. They can tap a smartphone app for a ride, or simply stick out an arm. They can pay with cash or credit. Now there is one more option: a female driver.

September 8, 2014 at 11:11AM
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Barbarians At The Password Gate
If you haven’t had your password hijacked, it’s really just a matter of time.

September 7, 2014 at 7:05PM
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Cheap Drinking Water From The Sun, Aided By A Pop Of Pencil Shavings
Turns out, desalinating or sterilizing water with solar energy is way harder than Hollywood makes it look. But engineer Hadi Ghasemi, at the University of Houston, is trying to change that. And the secret to his success was sitting right in the pencil on his desk.

September 7, 2014 at 4:12PM
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Wakie Wakes You With Phone Calls From Strangers
There’s alarm clock apps that force you to spin around, and ones that require you to move closer to your router. Then there’s Wakie, an app that encourages random strangers around the world to wake you up with a phone call.

September 7, 2014 at 2:10PM
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5 Things You Learn When You Take a Yearlong Break From Facebook, Twitter, and Work
At some point in the last couple years, David Roberts, a staff writer at the environmental website Grist, realized that the constant whirl of the digital world had begun taking a toll on him. A hyperengaged online presence (he’s one of a small number of Twitter users to have hit the app’s little-known daily cap on Tweets), Roberts began feeling constantly twitchy and unproductive, weighed down by an unending torrent of digital pings.

September 7, 2014 at 9:16AM
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Apple Dominating Shipping Capacity Out Of China With New iPhones
According to several sources, Apple has already begun flexing its supply chain muscles by shipping so many units of upcoming devices from its manufacturing facilities to sales outlets that it is causing delays for other manufacturers.

September 7, 2014 at 9:16AM
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This Stanford MBA Thinks Elitists Need Their Own Tinder
Is Tinder not selective enough for you? Is OKCupid turning up dates that don’t meet your standards? If so, you might want to look into League, a new dating app recently launched by a Stanford business school graduate.

September 6, 2014 at 5:48PM
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