How Powerful Is Your Brain?
Explore the greatest scientific frontier—the human brain—that uses a quarter of the body’s entire energy supply, yet only accounts for about two percent of the body’s mass. So how does…
Chicago, Detroit, and the Fight for Amazon HQ2: Using Public Transit as a Barometer
In 2016, the Regional Transit Authority of Southeastern Michigan (RTA) enthusiastically proposed a Regional Transit Master Plan designed to target all four of the major counties surrounding Detroit (Oakland, Macomb,…
Why North Korea Goes Pitch Black at Night?
When I look at satellite images of the earth, I see the world without national borders. I see rivers of lights uniting all the countries into a single glowing tapestry.…
Google’s Roadmap to World Domination
BRANDS THEY OWN: YouTube, Android, Chrome, Nexus, Pixel, Google Home Google: Search, Gmail, Maps, Hangouts and other apps Waze (The world’s largest community-based traffic and navigation app) Blogger, Zagat, Nest, Verily, Project…
What’s Fueling Amazon’s Growth?
Amazon’s subsidiary Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud-computing business, was among the first to offer IT infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services, now commonly known as cloud…
Google Is Reportedly Looking To Sell Zagat
Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) acquired the U.S. restaurant reviews specialist Zagat back in 2011 for $151 million in an effort to expand its push into the rapidly growing local businesses. In 2009, Google tried…
Why Blockchain Could Be a Game Changer?
The blockchain is a very strange thing — simultaneously the most overhyped, least understood and most disruptive technology of our time. The Invisible Technology that has the potential to transform…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Finally Speaks Out│Cambridge Analytica Scandal
On Saturday, March 17, 2018, The New York Times, working together with The Observer of London and The Guardian, first reported that a data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica ‘improperly’ harvested millions…
Christmas Without Toys “R” Us. Who Will Move In to Fill the Space Under Your Tree?
Toys “R” Us Files for Bankruptcy, Crippled by Competition and Debt. Who will move in to fill the space under your tree? Toys “R” Us, one of the world’s largest…
Sears, the Original Everything Store, Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection; Eddie Lampert Steps Down as CEO
We live in a digital age where you can buy virtually anything online and have it delivered to your doorstep. Online retailers like Amazon have fundamentally revolutionized the way we…