Innovations

What you and the Senate need to know about Canada

Vivek Wadhwa — Thu, 23 May 2013 22:04:21 GMT

Senators should be aware of a critical fact, as they debate immigration reform: If we don’t want foreign-born talent in the United States, other countries are more than happy to take the talent, and the innovation potential that goes with … Continue reading →

‘Hybrid innovation’: Clayton Christensen Institute introduces new disruption concept

Emi Kolawole — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:23:08 GMT

There’s a new term in the innovation lexicon. Clayton Christensen, the Harvard Business School professor credited with coining the term “disruptive innovation,” authored a white paper with colleagues Heather Staker and Michael Horn titled “Is K–12 blended learning disruptive? An … Continue reading →

The terrifying rise of the political entrepreneur

Emi Kolawole — Thu, 23 May 2013 17:31:51 GMT

In 1999, I decided to leave the headaches of entrepreneurship behind and get a regular Silicon Valley job in an attempt to ride the dot-com wave. My timing was terrible, and by 2001 I had started another company. In that … Continue reading →

Innovations in 5: An ailing Everest, unhappy CIOs and Jennifer Lopez’s mobile shopping experience

Emi Kolawole — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:47:32 GMT

Here’s what we’re reading/watching Thursday: 1) Sometimes great innovation needs a little inspiration. And, as Vivek Wadhwa has written, aging Baby Boomers are in a prime position to usher in some of the world’s next, great innovations. In that vein, we … Continue reading →

Google’s new conversation search quietly hits Chrome

Emi Kolawole — Wed, 22 May 2013 21:38:41 GMT

XBox One? What XBox One? — Microsoft brings cutting-edge tech to Washington

Emi Kolawole — Wed, 22 May 2013 16:30:51 GMT

Microsoft Research was in town Tuesday, and there wasn’t an XBox One in sight. Instead, the company brought along technology that has yet to — or may never — hit store shelves. All of the technologies on hand were introduced … Continue reading →

‘March for Innovation’ starts, gets Pete Cashmore, Steve Case on board

Emi Kolawole — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:00:03 GMT

Here’s what we’re reading/watching Wednesday: 1) More big names in the tech sector and elsewhere announced Wednesday that they are offering their support for the ‘March for Innovation,’ started by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and other tech leaders earlier … Continue reading →

Chris Hadfield on his recovery: ‘I’m readapting to it physically and mentally’

Emi Kolawole — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:15:15 GMT

Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield is recovering from his days as commander of the international space station. He fielded questions about his time in space, his social media popularity, the making of his cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” and his … Continue reading →

Six rules for holding on to top talent and staying innovative

Emi Kolawole — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:05:31 GMT

In 1978, when I started my career as a security guard at IBM, employers viewed their employees as property—static entities that wouldn’t dare stray. Back then, businesses professed to know what was best for their hires and looked after them … Continue reading →

Leap Motion, Windows and the missing keyboard

Emi Kolawole — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:44:39 GMT

Gesture-control tech company Leap Motion released a video Monday showing off how its technology will work with Windows. The video is a fun romp through the technology pairing’s possibilities: But one feature of computer technology—and a popular one, to boot— is … Continue reading →

Social media in the wake of the Oklahoma tragedy

Emi Kolawole — Tue, 21 May 2013 13:50:33 GMT

Here’s what we’re reading/watching Tuesday: 1) A fierce tornado has torn through Moore, Okla., leaving dozens of people dead, and the death toll is expected to climb. View Photo Gallery —Rescue workers are searching for survivors after a twister carved … Continue reading →

NASA tech chief Mason Peck does reddit AMA

Emi Kolawole — Tue, 21 May 2013 01:34:13 GMT

Health-care training and data storage innovations featured at Silicon Valley conference

Emi Kolawole — Mon, 20 May 2013 23:23:30 GMT

This year’s HealthBeat conference continues through Tuesday in San Francisco, with health technology innovators gathering to offer their take on what’s challenging, what’s working and what’s next in innovation for the health care industry. The conference, hosted by technology Web publication Venture … Continue reading →

Yahoo, Tumblr and the creativity-failure nexus

Emi Kolawole — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:32:38 GMT

Here’s what we’re reading/watching today: 1) Yahoo confirmed the $1.1 billion deal to acquire micro-blogging site Tumblr in a press release on the company’s Web site Monday, promising not to “screw it up”: “Per the agreement and our promise not to … Continue reading →

When ‘innovation’ isn’t enough

Dominic Basulto — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:19:01 GMT

There’s a disconnect in Washington right now. The Obama administration has been breathlessly pitching futuristic, new innovation initiatives—everything from projects to map the human brain to new initiatives around manufacturing involving 3D printers. It’s simultaneously having to contend with a … Continue reading →

Watson goes to Washington: IBM shows off latest health-care work to lawmakers

Emi Kolawole — Fri, 17 May 2013 16:13:14 GMT

Watson, IBM’s supercomputer named after company founder Thomas Watson, was on Capitol Hill Thursday to show off what it has learned since it dove into health care roughly a year ago. “I thought I was coming up to play chess … Continue reading →

Innovations in 5: Watch the brightest explosion ever recorded on the moon

Emi Kolawole — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:26:16 GMT

Here’s what we’re reading/watching today: 1) It’s Friday, so we’re starting on the lighter side, so to speak. A meteoroid crashed into the moon on March 17, producing a flash roughly 10 times as bright as any seen since NASA … Continue reading →

Chris Hadfield’s ’15 minutes’ continue with Ryan Gosling-related meme

Emi Kolawole — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:51:49 GMT

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield is back on terra firma, and the way he chose to spend his days in space aboard the international space station have made him a celebrity — particularly his cover of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity,” which … Continue reading →

Innovations in 5: The United States of Google and NASA gets some new tech

Emi Kolawole — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:25:32 GMT

Here’s what we’re reading/watching today: 1) Google CEO Larry Page conducted a surprise open question-and-answer session during the Google I/O conference Wednesday. Among other observations (including the fact he “didn’t appreciate” this), Page expressed his sadness over the state of innovation online … Continue reading →

End the pressure: It’s time to reframe ‘lean in’

Emi Kolawole — Thu, 16 May 2013 13:07:30 GMT

Ames official on Kepler mission: ‘I really wouldn’t write it off at this point.’ (Audio)

Emi Kolawole — Wed, 15 May 2013 22:35:28 GMT

Kepler, the spacecraft on the hunt for Earth-like planets, may have reached the end of its mission. View Photo Gallery —A malfunction aboard Kepler may cut short its mission of hunting for Earth-like planets in the galaxy. Here is a … Continue reading →

A map of hate speech on Twitter — sort of

Caitlin Dewey — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:36:34 GMT

If you’ve seen a certain map about hate speech and Twitter recently, you may have come to the conclusion that pretty much every state east of the Dakotas is vilely racist, homophobic and disability-prejudiced. In reality, that’s not quite true: … Continue reading →

Google I/O keynote: Watch it live (video)

Emi Kolawole — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:05:36 GMT

The Google I/O developer conference is underway, and the Wednesday keynote is scheduled to begin at 12 p.m. ET. Google is offering a live feed of the conference via (what else?) YouTube. Meanwhile, The Post’s Hayley Tsukayama has a look … Continue reading →

The way forward for FWD.us

Vivek Wadhwa — Wed, 15 May 2013 15:27:30 GMT

Silicon Valley venture capitalist Vinod Khosla expressed his concerns about the lobbying tactics employed by the new advocacy organization FWD.us in a tweet, asking if the organization would “prostitute … values” to achieve its goals: Will Fwd.us prostitute climate destruction & … Continue reading →

Innovations in 5: ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ and augmented 3D printing

Emi Kolawole — Wed, 15 May 2013 14:49:37 GMT

Here’s what we’re reading/watching today: 1) The reviews for “Star Trek into Darkness” are coming in. The Post’s Ann Hornaday writes that the film can be “summed up, quite simply, as a triumph of casting.” While The Verge’s Bryan Bishop writes … Continue reading →