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Nir Eyal is showing software designers how to hook users in four easy steps. Welcome to the new era of habit-forming technology. * A middle-aged woman sits before a computer […]

AARON LEVIE BOUNDS ONSTAGE WITH the swagger of a standup comic. But he's not performing at the Comedy Store. He's in the Grand Ballroom at San Francisco's Hilton Union Square […]

Imagine a time before smartphones. Before laptops. Before Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and even the mighty Google. A world without Web browsers, when the Internet belonged to universities and going online [...]

The Ushahidi project brings crowdsourcing to bear on some of the most desperate situations people face around the world. Its downloadable software allows users to submit eyewitness reports during a [...]

Do: Position studio monitors to provide as much direct sound--and as little reflected sound--as possible. The sound waves emanating directly from your speakers represent what's on tape; those that reach […]

Byline: by Ted Greenwald LA TIGRE Under the Influence How Facebook and Twitter and Candy Crush get us addicted to swiping and clicking and posting. Facebook. Twitter. Instagram. World of [...]

BACKEND UPSTARTS Sure, you want the tech world to create apps that let you find nearby singles and send them disappearing emoji, but what makes any of that work is [...]

TEST DRIVE CALLING OUT BAD SIDEWALKS The old way to see if a sidewalk is wheelchair-friendly: Crawl around on your hands and knees to measure cracks and ramps. The new [...]

HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT NEW TARGETS FOR OLD DRUGS BY TED GREENWALD In late 2011, mice with small-cell lung cancer had their tumors reduced by an antidepressant called imipramine. The [...]

Byline: BY TED GREENWALD Photograph by CHRISTOPHER MORRIS The Idealist Jimmy Wales' Wikipedia harnessed the web as a force for good. Some 24 million entries later, it's an essential part [...]

Byline: Ted Greenwald PHOTOGRAPH BY JOSÃ MANDOJANA obsessed METEOROLOGIST His collection may have fallen to Earth, but it wasn't easy to build. Naveen Jain isn't your average rock collector. His [...]

Byline: BY TED GREENWALD PHOTOGRAPH BY NIGEL PARRY The X Man From the X Prize to Singularity University to space colonies, Peter Diamandis always has his eyes on the future. [...]

Byline: BY TED GREENWALD Photograph by Eric Ogden THE UPSTART In the buzzword-fueled arena of Silicon Valley, auth or ERIC RIES HAS THE STAGE and the crowd is GOING WILD. [...]

Byline: PHOTOGRAPH BY MACKENZIE STROH Ted Greenwald TAMING THE DRAGON One scholar's plan to soften Chinese dominance. It's no secret that China is on the fast track to global domination. [...]

Byline: TED GREENWALD PHOTOGRAPH BY Mark Peterman No Direction Home We could totally put people on Marsif we didn't have to bring them back. Eminent physicist Paul Davies has a [...]

Byline: TEXT Ted Greenwald ILLUSTRATION Sean McCabe GOOD VIBRATIONS Endless Melody An adventurous musician demonstrates the infinite power of the Moog Guitar. Jimi Hendrix had his Stratocaster. Carlos Santana has [...]

Byline: TED GREENWALD ILLUSTRATION BY OKSANA BADRAK 32' Ã 48' SUBURBAN SPREAD Super soil and a good flora/fauna mix produce self-sustaining sustenance. If you plan carefully, a large portion of [...]

Silicon Valley investors and startups are trying to improve our food. Do they bring anything to the table? Most tech startups are silent spaces where earbud-wearing engineers peer into monitors. […]

Breakthrough Services that make it fruitful to create and edit documents on mobile devices. Why It Matters Much of today's office work is done outside an office. Key Players --Quip [...]

Data scientist Rayid Ghani helped persuade voters to reelect President Obama. Now he's using big data to create a groundswell of social good. * As chief scientist for President Obama's [...]

* Automated systems routinely make decisions required to trade securities, detect fraud, finger terrorists, and place ads on Web pages. But when it comes to developing these kinds of technology, […]

Are They Playing Our Song? By Ted Greenwald All violinists play the violin in more or less the same way. Likewise, there are established methods and techniques for virtually all [...]

Facebook recently introduced its Timeline interface to its 850 million monthly active users. The interface is designed to make it easy to navigate much of the immense amount of information [...]

Kickstarter, a New York City-based website originally founded to support creative projects, has become a force in financing technology startups. Entrepreneurs have used the site to raise hundreds of thousands [...]

MAINTAINING A BLOG takes stamina: of the more than 100 million blogs surveyed by the search engine Technorati in 2008, fewer than 10 percent had been updated in the previous [...]

The article profiles Morgan Quigley, founder of Open Source Robotics Foundation in Mountain View, California, is presented. According to the author, Quigley programmed the first iteration of what became Robot Operation System (ROS) as a graduate student in 2006. The author adds that ROS has developed to become the standard in robotics software and is redefining the limits of robotics.

The article focuses on Ben Milne, founder of Dwolla, a digital payment network that facilitates easy and safe transfer of money. According to the author, Dwolla is on track to reach profits of one billion U.S. dollars for 250,000 consumers and businesses in 2013. The author adds that Dwolla has amassed 22.5 million U.S. dollars in venture capital and is threatening the likes of PayPal and Visa.

The article profiles Singularity University's subsidiary SU Labs, a business accelerator created by technology executives Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil, which focuses on fostering the development of technology programs that could positively impact up to one billion people worldwide.