Interbrand's annual Best Global Brands report promotes the value of the connected ecosystem for brands like Apple

Wouldn't it be great if you could know that you're about to injure yourself moments before you actually do? A pair of students out of Rice University believe that they've developed a wearable that can do just that. Ziel's M2 Sleeve is a prototype device that's designed for baseball pitchers to monitor the stress on their forearm. Using a combination of accelerometers, gyroscopes and muscle sensors, the unit can track motion and raise the alarm just before someone does some real damage.

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Wherever I go these days, at home or abroad, people ask me the same question: what is happening in the American political system? How has a…

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With the help of social media, virtual fights turn physical in American schools.

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Note: On Monday, September 26, 2016, I gave a talk at Middlebury College. Below is the working transcript I wrote for the talk, though I did not actually read it. The talk can be viewed online. Tod…

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Ironically, listening to podcasts has prompted this teacher's students to read more.

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This is a guestpost by Simon Blackley (@simonblackley) of communications agency ESN. More about Simon at the end of the post. News, ideas and pictures of dogs wearing sunglasses spread around the planet with unprecedented speed. I found that we enrich our online networks by finding, selecting, combining and contextualising content that will be of value […]

Harold Jarche has said that using social bookmarking could be  "...the simplest way to start sharing organisational knowledge." and I totally agree. It's also an easy way to get started with the concept of "Working Out Loud" and curation. It is super easy to get started with social bookmarks and it's only slightly different from what…

There are already plenty of reasons why North Koreans don't go online, whether it's the low standard of living or a highly oppressive government that blocks anything which might challenge its worldview. However, you can add one more thing to the list: there just isn't much to do in its portion of the internet. North Korea has inadvertently leaked its domain name system data through a badly configured high-level server, showing the rest of the world that there are just 28 .kp domains. And as Reddit users quickly found, the websites at those domains aren't what you'd call riveting reading mat...

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Highlights and hiccups from the earliest AIR model to the latest in Nike's attempts to realize the dream of running on nothing but air.

On September 13, thousands of HP inkjet printers stopped working and displayed this error message: “The following ink cartridges appear to…

Natalie Hampton knows what it's like to have no one to sit with during school lunch. So she created Sit With Us, an app that helps kids find friendly harbors in the crowd.

Today, the Institute of Educational Sciences unveiled a redesign of their What Works Clearinghouse website that’s supposed to help districts, schools and educators access good research. You c…

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