The company, much like Facebook, has led to a number of innovations, some of which have resulted in the creation of whole companies. In fact, as Co.Design’s Mark Wilson reported, one designer is working to create a camera called Socialmatic solely for Instagram. The camera merely exists in 3D renderings and, as Wilson points out, seems a bit like a move backwards on photography’s evolutionary timeline. But the continued innovation around Instagram, whether backwards or forwards, highlights the value of the app outside of merely online photo sharing.

When news first broke Thursday that JPMorgan's credit derivatives portfolio had sustained a loss of $2 billion, and potentially as much as $5 billion, on trades gone awry, there was an immediate call for greater regulatory oversight over banks’ high-risk trading activities. The message was clear: "If you're going to be a bank, then you can't play at the casino,” as the Post’s Ezra Klein writes. At the same time that the market was lopping off billions of dollars in shareholder value, JPMorgan was purging top executives responsible for the bungled trades and facing awkward questions about its public stance in favor self-regulation. If banks can’t regulate themselves, though, who can?

Last fall, Stanford began offering online courses taught by the likes of Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig. Last month, ideas conference TED announced that it was unlocking its TED Talks videos and encouraging educators to mash them up with YouTube videos as part of their TED-ed initiative. Last week, Harvard and MIT unveiled edX: the chance to study courses from two of the nation’s most prestigious universities via the Internet. So, here’s the question: Are we at the start of a brave new era of higher education and rapidly accelerating intelligence?

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]]> http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=1896110d8bd4de0186ee53945083d494 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/is-your-technology-biased/2012/05/09/gIQApQcIDU_blog.html?wprss=rss_innovations http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/is-your-technology-biased/2012/05/09/gIQApQcIDU_blog.html?wprss=rss_innovations http://www.washingtonpost.com/Fragment/SysConfig/WebPortal/twpweb/rss/mobile/blog-entry.jpp?id=1000.4.1189131753 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/is-your-technology-biased/2012/05/09/gIQApQcIDU_blog.html?wprss=rss_innovations http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/is-your-technology-biased/2012/05/09/gIQApQcIDU_blog.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/is-your-technology-biased/2012/05/09/gIQApQcIDU_search.html 1000.4.1189131753 2ea8ec56-997d-11e1-a1d3-82b625e2c571 Douglas Rushkoff Verge social networks Wed, 9 May 2012 11:59:00 EST Tue, 15 May 2012 12:25:20 EST 20120515172520 The Washington Post /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/innovations/201205/can_you_tell_if_your_technology_is_biased.xml /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/innovations/201205/can_you_tell_if_your_technology_is_biased.xml BlogStory BlogStory The Washington Post If you haven’t heard, a new mobile application is curating restaurant deals exclusively for Apple employees.

If this sounds oddly like SWAG (the acronym for “stuff we all get” where the “we” often refers to celebrities), you’re right ... sort of. Think of it as SWAG with a twist.

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]]> http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=a2334254a2613a01fcc3564dd3bbcd33 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/swag-stuff-we-at-apple-get/2012/05/09/gIQACr3vCU_blog.html?wprss=rss_innovations http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/swag-stuff-we-at-apple-get/2012/05/09/gIQACr3vCU_blog.html?wprss=rss_innovations http://www.washingtonpost.com/Fragment/SysConfig/WebPortal/twpweb/rss/mobile/blog-entry.jpp?id=1000.4.1183755632 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/swag-stuff-we-at-apple-get/2012/05/09/gIQACr3vCU_blog.html?wprss=rss_innovations http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/swag-stuff-we-at-apple-get/2012/05/09/gIQACr3vCU_blog.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/swag-stuff-we-at-apple-get/2012/05/09/gIQACr3vCU_search.html 1000.4.1183755632 dde9e4dc-994a-11e1-9c00-4876538800d6 Wed, 9 May 2012 09:05:00 EST Wed, 9 May 2012 12:18:45 EST 20120509171845 The Washington Post /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/innovations/201205/the-new-swag.xml /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/innovations/201205/the-new-swag.xml BlogStory BlogStory The Washington Post Lincoln Center in New York hosted a “sleep-over” in April.

One participant sported teddy-bear ears. But don’t be fooled: this was not an event for children.

This was a Red Bull-drinking, no-sleeping group composed of programmers, filmmakers, gamers, and graphic artists, among other tech and creative types. This was the first-ever Story Hack — an event produced by StoryCode, a not-for-profit dedicated to the future of cross-media storytelling, in partnership with the Film Society of Lincoln Center and studio/technology company Murmur.

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What do the following images have in common?

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]]> http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/click.phdo?i=f7276b094f37c71513c905bfc240fb61 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/disney-may-be-on-to-something-new-technology-could-bring-objects-to-life/2012/05/07/gIQAox1y7T_blog.html?wprss=rss_innovations http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/disney-may-be-on-to-something-new-technology-could-bring-objects-to-life/2012/05/07/gIQAox1y7T_blog.html?wprss=rss_innovations http://www.washingtonpost.com/Fragment/SysConfig/WebPortal/twpweb/rss/mobile/blog-entry.jpp?id=1000.4.1110581658 http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/disney-may-be-on-to-something-new-technology-could-bring-objects-to-life/2012/05/07/gIQAox1y7T_blog.html?wprss=rss_innovations http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/disney-may-be-on-to-something-new-technology-could-bring-objects-to-life/2012/05/07/gIQAox1y7T_blog.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/disney-may-be-on-to-something-new-technology-could-bring-objects-to-life/2012/05/07/gIQAox1y7T_search.html 1000.4.1110581658 4f2ee20a-984c-11e1-927c-291130c98dff Mon, 7 May 2012 09:19:56 EST Mon, 7 May 2012 13:56:39 EST 20120507185639 The Washington Post /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/innovations/201205/disney-wapolabs.xml /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/innovations/201205/disney-wapolabs.xml BlogStory BlogStory The Washington Post There are a mind-boggling number of ways for companies to collect online data about their customers and prospects and transform that data into sophisticated, social profiles that give them insight into both current and future behavior. They are getting so good at it, in fact, that sometimes they know when you're pregnant before your parents do. This practice of social profiling, which some have likened to a new form of racism, quickly enters a gray area when employers use information from social networks to screen prospective employees, or when universities use this information to deny admission to certain students. As we add entirely new types of information to our online social profiles — including our organ donor status — at what point will this intrusion into our personal lives cross the line?

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It seems increasingly likely that SpaceX will be the first private entity to send a rocket to dock with the International Space Station.

As The Washington Post’s Marc Kaufman and Brian Vastag report, SpaceX, in collaboration with NASA, is “targeting” May 8 as the launch date for the company’s Dragon Capsule. It would be the first attempt to launch a privately designed and built spacecraft to dock with the station.

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Within minutes of the space shuttle’s Manhattan flyover, photos began to appear on Instagram. The images were so evocative that a headline on Fast Company declared, "Instagram was made for this."

The event, much like the death of Whitney Houston, generated an outpouring of nostalgia and emotion online, followed by a collective rush to define its relevance for others. Whether we like it or not, these moments serve as an example of the new role we all play in the crafting of a collective, global memory.

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A video making its way around the Web shows an imagined security measure against someone stealing your iPhone: Siri just blows it up.

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A video produced by the charitable organization Mama Hope addresses a long-standing issue in the film and television industry: stereotypes — specifically stereotypes of African men.

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