An Uber IPO might not happen for quite some time but Wall Street firms already are positioning themselves for a piece of the action.

When Alan Turing first conceived of the Turing Test in 1947, he suggested that a computer program?s resemblance to a human mind could be gauged by making it answer a series of questions written by an interrogator in another room.

When the email arrived, Jordan Walker wasn’t ready for it. The message was from Ryan Hoover, founder and CEO of Product Hunt, a site that surfaces cool new projects.

Sometimes, you have to agree to disagree. But what do you do with clients who just fundamentally have terrible taste in design? They’re paying the bills, creating a problem that almost every designer has to face in his or her career at least once: How do you tell your clients that their taste sucks?

Companies like Apple are making design impossible for startups to ignore. Startups like GitHub, Airbnb, Square, and Fitbit have design at the core of their business, and they’re doing phenomenal work. But what is ?design? actually? Is it a logo? A WordPress theme? An innovative UI?

When Facebook billionaire Chris Hughes, the owner of The New Republic, and TNR?s newly installed CEO, former Yahoo News executive Guy Vidra, visited the storied magazine?s Washington headquarters on Friday morning to meet with the staff, they were greeted by a skeleton crew of a few editorial interns and junior employees.

The landscape of cloud technology has changed significantly since we started selling Google Apps in 2006, and our breadth of offerings has changed with it.

Most of us never think about the apps people use on the other side of the planet, but Dan Rover does.

Richard Socher carries a resume that would seem to make him rather attractive to the giants of the internet. He just finished a PhD at Stanford University, where he explored a form of artificial intelligence called ?deep learning,? teaching machines to recognize images and understand natural language using software that operates a bit like the networks of neurons in the human brain.

Imagine you?re on your way to work. You walk up the stairs from the subway, and your coffee order is put in automatically. You walk into Starbucks, past the line, tell the barista your name, and she hands you your tall latte with skim.