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5/3/2013

Jaron Lanier, the father of virtual reality, has become Silicon Valley's ranking internal affairs cop. In a series of writings—including his 2006 essay "...More»

4/29/2013

It was June of last year, and Shawn Nguyen and his girlfriend were running late to an event. Not wanting to roll the dice on one of San Francisco’s taxi dispatch companies (he lives in the Inner Richmond, a...More»

4/19/2013

A few months ago, three entrepreneurs were hanging out and lamenting the inadequate sexiness of online dating and came up with a wild (okay, ridiculous) idea. Why not make finding partners for sex less shrouded in ambiguity? And...More»

4/11/2013

Who doesn't want to play with cool stuff? That's the idea behind the Stanford Product Design & Manufacturing Club (PDMC) and the Stanford Graduate School of Business's...More»

4/11/2013

No, it’s not guaranteed to keep you from getting lung cancer, but Ploom’s new vaporizer, called Pax, at least makes smoking easier on the people around you. ...More»

4/9/2013

Imagine how great it would be to head down the coast for a weekend in your Prius and be able to pull over and go kayaking wherever you saw a perfect spot. That's what the folks at Oru Kayak had in mind when they came up with an...More»

4/8/2013

Parag Chordia, the chief scientist at music-tech company Smule, along with Smule co-founder Ge Wang, recently launched...More»

4/5/2013

Feeling guilty about not having bought yourself an earthquake preparedness kit? You should—and you should. But a new project from the Bay Area’s grandfather of innovation companies, ...More»

4/4/2013

Space exploration not just for the NASA brave. That’s the idea behind Tim DeBenedictis’s Kickstarter-funded project—...More»

4/1/2013

You say “incubator,” we say “accelerator.” You say “silo-busting cross-pollination,” we say “working together.” Whatever you call it, the collaboration ethos has become the...More»

4/1/2013

Say you bought the historic but long-empty Benjamin Franklin Hotel in downtown San Mateo because it was cheap and, really, just because you could. But it didn't have its own parking lot, so you realized that it wasn't exactly prime...More»

4/1/2013

Why use a mouse when you can just wave your hand? Bryant Street–based Leap Motion’s motion sensor lets you control your...More»