Xbox One: Microsoft’s boldest attempt to unify its services is a game console

It's more a powerful home theater PC than it is a game console, making it a great tool for bringing Microsoft's services into your living room.

Salesforce: The cloud is not an ‘all or nothing game’ for health care

Despite the obvious flexibility and cost savings of cloud technologies, health care providers are treading carefully -- largely because of security concerns.

Marissa Mayer explains how Yahoo will keep Tumblr from meeting Flickr’s fate

Some Tumblr fans want to know how Yahoo plans to avoid the fate of Flickr, Geocities, and other failed acquisitions. So we asked Marissa Mayer.

How burning sticks can boil water, recharge your phone, and save the world

BioLite makes a pair of stoves that burn twigs to cook your dinner -- and charge your phone at the same time. It's using sales of a backpacking stove sold in the U.S. to help fund development of a (hopefully) world-changing stove for people in the rest of the world.

Canada’s startup visa program in ‘hyperdrive’ but U.S. is ‘dysfunctional’ (interview)

Give me your smart, your educated, your startup founders yearning to build companies?

Silicon Valley investors ponder the “next big thing” in health care

Will the Sand Hill Road firms open their check books for you? We caught up with Sequoia Capital's Warren Hogarth and Morgenthaler Ventures' Missy Krasner to dig deeper into their investment thesis.

Google Glass apps are easy to develop, but brutally difficult to design well

The screen size is more limited than any other modern screen, so what is presented on the display must be drop-dead simple. Compared to these challenges, building the tech is a cakewalk.

Homeless to hacker: How the Maker Movement changed one man’s life

In Christmas 2011, Marc Roth fished out a business card for TechShop out of a shelter's garbage bin. Two years later, he's an entrepreneur with a funded laser company, and one of the Maker Movement's greatest success stories.

An inside look at the world’s newest quantum computing and nanotechnology center

“We are trying to be the first to build the quantum computer,” says Crow. "When we do it, and we will do it eventually, it’s going to be bigger than the moon landing.”

Larry Page is sad, hopeful, and frustrated in his heartfelt Google I/O speech

Google CEO Larry Page delivered a heartfelt speech at Google I/O today, saying the we've only accomplished 1 percent of what we can in technology.

How long until your doctor is wearing Google Glass?

Although Google Glass is still in its early (and annoying) stages, it holds a lot of promise in the medical field -- and entrepreneurs and investors are already salivating at the possibilities.

Big data hits the big time: Datameer triples revenues in a year

a number of enterprising startups that sell big data analysis tools to large companies are seeing explosive revenue growth -- the latest sign the big data gold rush is fully on.

HTC’s One: At long last, the best smartphone is an Android phone (review)

It's the best Android smartphone I've ever laid hands on -- and possible the best smartphone I've ever used.

Brenda Romero’s Train board game will make you ponder

If you walk into a game of Train unaware, you'll be stunned at the way the game makes you feel upon discovering what it is about.

Make anything: Why 3D printed guns fulfill the promise of 3D printing

3D printed guns may be dangerous and controversial, but they also get to the heart of why 3D printing is such a powerful technology.