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Keep ‘Em Gaming By Guessing: Google’s Puzzle Challenge

As if we needed more distractions on the internet. Google has been advertising its “A Google A Day” puzzle game on various YouTube videos as of late in order engage more users on its Google+ social...

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Despite High-Profile Setbacks, Airlines Continue to Improve Safety

It hasn’t been a good week for Boeing, the world’s largest global airline manufacturer, in terms of positive press. A number of the company’s new 787 Dreamliners suffered a number of issues as of late,...

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Celebrating Internet Freedom Day: SOPA and PIPA Aren’t Coming Back

Via an article in the Huffington Post by Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia) and Craig Newmark (Craigslist): One year ago today, millions of people joined forces to defeat two pieces of legislation, the Stop...

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Boeing Under Scrutiny as Dreamliner Woes Continue

Fifty of the most advanced commercial aircraft in the world are still grounded this week as Boeing continues to investigate an alarming battery malfunction that affected two Japanese carriers, forcing...

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Home Office Evolution: Walter Cronkite Previews 21st Century Technology

Just how accurate are technology forecasts? Let’s take a step back in time to 1967 and join Walter Cronkite as he demonstrates what home office technology might look like in the future in a program...

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Watch the Lean Startup Conference 2012 on FORA.tv

As the pioneer behind the Lean Startup movement, Eric Ries has challenged the way entrepreneurs allocate their resources when embarking on a new business. Through a process of building, measuring, and...

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This Week on FORA.tv: Frick Collection, Intelligence Squared, National...

Take a look at what’s happening this week on FORA.tv: University of Amsterdam professor Machtelt Israëls will speak at The Frick Collection on Wednesday in a lecture on early Renaissance painter Piero...

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Charging the Revolution: Elon Musk Uses Data to Defend Tesla

A test drive of a Tesla Motors sedan along a stretch of highway between Washington DC and Boston received less than stellar reviews in a recent New York Times article, which claimed the car fell far...

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Could Solar-Powered Flight Be the Next Aviation Milestone?

Record-setting flights have garnered a lot of attention in the relatively short history of aviation, such as Charles Lindbergh’s solo non-stop flight over the Atlantic Ocean in 1927; Chuck Yeager’s...

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Warby Parker Brings Style to Google Glass

Earlier this week, Google announced it was ready to test out a prototype of its eyewear Google Glass, the search giant’s plunge into wearable computing and augmented reality. Google Glass, developed by...

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Groupon CEO Fired; Pens Disarming Goodbye Memo to Staff

On Thursday, employees at Groupon received surprising news from their CEO, Andrew Mason. In a company-wide announcement, Mason initially joked that he wanted to spend more time with family, but quickly...

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Smarter Energy: Experts Weigh In On Protecting U.S. Electrical Grid

If you were one of the millions of people who watched this year’s Super Bowl, you probably saw this happen live on television from the Louisiana Superdome: Oddly enough, the cause of the blackout was...

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This Week on FORA.tv: Black Male Re-Imagined, Monitor Breakfast, Paley Center

Find out what’s coming up this week on FORA.tv. Black Male: Re-Imagined II kicks off this week in a continuation of a national campaign to shape authentic perceptions of black men and boys. Joining the...

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Is Social Media Stressing You Out?

Did you check Facebook today? Perhaps you wrote a status update or shared a cool link? Maybe you sent out a tweet to your followers, or just couldn’t resist posting a picture of this morning’s sunrise...

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This Week on FORA.tv: Paley Center for Media, Same Sex Marriage

Take a look at what’s happening this week on FORA.tv. The Next Big Thing returns to the Paley Center for Media with a focus on the future of branded content featuring Justin Choi of NATIVO, Steve Sachs...

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CrowdOptic CEO Jon Fisher on Thinking Big, Being Bold

Entrepreneurs take heed: what can you do to differentiate yourselves from others in the technology space and achieve potential as a pioneering innovator? In an insightful talk at the Silicon Valley...

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Tomorrow on FORA.tv: EG7 – Monterey 2013

As FORA.tv gears up for EG7, here’s a preview of just a few of the speakers scheduled to appear over the next three days in Monterey, California, starting tomorrow on April 18 at 1:00 pm PDT. From the...

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Digital Humanitarians: Changing How We Respond to Crisis

When it comes to responding to crisis, humanitarian response efforts are rapidly leaning on technology solutions in order to gather information and pinpoint where help is needed most. One individual...

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Surfing the World Wide Web at 20: Is a Wave of Change on the Horizon?

On April 20, 1993, researchers at CERN–the same organization responsible for discovering the Higgs boson–made an announcement that they were establishing the World Wide Web as a free and open source...

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Think Bigger: WIRED Business Conference Returns to FORA.tv

Even though the echoes of a long recession and financial uncertainty still reverberate throughout many parts of the United States, we as a nation are on the rebound. Markets are gaining confidence,...

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