In 2008, the young designer Brian Chesky pitched seven VCs on a social room-sharing app called Airbnb. For $150,000, they could own 10% of this company. But instead of enthusiasm, he got a small pile ...

Find a downloadable version of this story in pdf format at the end of the story. With the rising costs of energy and increasing governmental requirements for high efficiency lighting, the high ...

All busy entrepreneurs know the feeling: just as you’re working on one important task, another area of the business needs your attention urgently, then another fire comes up which needs to have been ...

When James Sommerville joined The Coca-Cola Company to lead their global design team, it felt daunting. “I wondered why me? I suppose today we call it impostor syndrome,” he recalls. In other ways, he ...

Part 1 of this three-part series introduced the technical and engineering steps necessary to design an LED display system from individual LED lamps. Part 2 provided the remaining steps needed to ...

Through Material Innovation Center, students learn the skills required to successfully deconstruct a building in a way that preserves building materials for new use in future projects. (Courtesy ...

My title is Senior Features Writer, which is a license to write about absolutely anything if I can connect it to technology (I can). I’ve been at PCMag since 2011 and have covered the surveillance ...

Concierges, cuddly toys and a chilled-out vibe: Welcome to the innovation-driven government agency. When entering a government permit office, virtually everyone would prepare themselves for a certain ...