The $10 million Tricorder X Prize asks entrants to create a handheld mobile platform that can diagnose 15 diseases across 30 patients in just three days. A NASA Ames-based startup called Scanadu is working on a model that will cost under $150. But Sc...
The largest bottled-water factory in North America is located on the outskirts of Hollis, Maine. In the back of the plant stretches the staging area for finished product: 24 million bottles of Poland Spring water. As far as the eye can see, there are...
For decades, the Avondale neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama, was known for negative things--mainly its crime, drug use, and prostitution. The approximately four block area was at about 25% occupancy just a few years ago, estimates Elizabeth Barbare...
The Ab Fab star tells Tim Adams about writing her Spice Girls musical, why she loves playing Edina and the joy of being a granny
Whether you like them or not, genetically modified ingredients are hard to avoid in the food supply--they're found in most processed foods in the U.S. and elsewhere. These crops--generally things like cotton, soy, and corn--are tweaked in labs so tha...
As they stand in hourlong lines to cast a ballot, voters might ask themselves, why isn't the government making it easier for me to vote, rather than forcing me through an endurance contest?
Turnstyle just released a video about the tech boom San Franciscans are witnessing. Their interviews include organizers and start-up founders in the Mission District.
The latest orders were issued in August by the California Public Utilities Commission and assert that the companies - SideCar and Lyft - lack the required charter party carrier permits that make sure drivers are properly licensed, screened and insure...
If someone placed you in an apartment wearing only underwear and a bathrobe (and your cash), explaining that you can't buy anything new and must borrow, rent, swap, or buy secondhand everything you need, could you do it? It probably wouldn't be too d...