Lift goes beta
Q&A | The habit-tracker app is released to a handful of first-time users.
Heroin, morphine addictions can be blocked, study shows
Scientists in Colorado, Australia collaborate on a non-addictive ‘super morphine.’
(Alexander F. Yuan / AP)
Has China created the first social credit card?
The card serves as the latest proof that China is close to challenging America’s top financial services innovators.
Thinking innovation? Think toilets.
When it comes to innovation, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is putting the toilet front and center.
Is a moon colony on the horizon?
Imagine a machine that could build a 2,000 square foot home in under 24 hours. Imagine one that could do that on the surface of the moon?
‘We’re NASA and we know it’
Viral video marries popular LMFAO hit with Curiosity rover mission factoids.
The social network do-over myth
App.net is the latest in a growing line of Facebook and Twitter alternatives. But can it succeed?
Crowdsourcing an innovation solution
Do you think you have the best idea for encouraging U.S. innovation? Prove it.
IBM to open new research lab in Kenya
The company announced a new research laboratory, IBM Research — Africa, Monday.
Obama to NASA: Congrats and let me know about Martians ASAP (video)
The president congratulated the Mars rover Curiosity team during a call Monday.
Craig Timberg and Hayley Tsukayama
Verizon, cable company deal approved by Justice Department
Federal officials imposed several conditions on the $3.6 billion deal in hopes of preserving competition in communities where Verizon’s FiOS service already battles cable services such as Comcast’s Xfinity for customers.
Hayley Tsukayama
Judge says Apple is ‘smoking crack’ after seeing rebuttal witness list
Things got heated in a California courtroom when Apple brought forward a 75-page witness list.
Hayley Tsukayama
Facebook shares hit new low
Facebook shares dropped below $20 for the first time as insiders got their first chance to sell.
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Did Amazon just clear a new Kindle Fire DX with the FCC?
Adding further fuel to the larger Kindle Fire rumor mill is the price drop to Amazon’s Kindle DX.
Innovations Contributors
Smashing Silicon Valley’s biases
COLUMN | Silicon Valley has a problem with bias, but new programs seek to change that.
Has China created the first social credit card?
The card serves as the latest proof that China is close to challenging America’s top financial services innovators.
Of Androids and Apples
It has been awhile since I spent some quality time in Android. While I was away, it appears we have both changed.
Predicting 2012 in 1987
WaPo Labs | who better to predict the unpredictable than those who spend their lives dreaming of tomorrow: science fiction writers?
Birds to broadband: A history of Olympics communication
WAPO LABS | From the pigeon to the tweet, communicating the results of the Olympic Games has changed substantially since 776 B.C.
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Messaging app Line comes to BlackBerry to rival RIM's BBM service and grow its Southeast Asian presence http://t.co/yjLddZ4o by @jonrussell
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Chinese game publisher Yodo1 teams up with HandyGames to localize iOS, Android games http://t.co/TgaGlRjH by @beijingdou
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Hypersonic craft X-51A put to the test
"In the scramble for dwindling federal dollars NASA was getting a lot of attention with the Mars Science Lab/Curiosity mission. In response, the Defense Department felt it needed to make its Waverider a little more glamorous. So, it made the completely bogus suggestion its hypersonic scramjet vehicle might have commercial passenger applications, in order to steal some of the spotlight back from NASA."
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Video: NASA raw video: Curiosity lands on Mars
NASA raw video: Curiosity lands on Mars
NASA celebrates Mars rover Curiosity’s landing
VIDEO | The Post’s Marc Kaufman on the successful “mission of the decade.”
NASA’s Mars rover, named Curiosity, landed on the red planet on August 6, 2012. Watch this animation of the rover’s landing sequence and an explanation of its instruments to explore the martian surface.
If all goes well, the Curiosity Mars rover will complete a complicated routine and land safely on Mars on Sunday.
VIDEO | Big data stands to redefine genius, giving people more access to information than ever before.
VIDEO | IBM Research’s Software VP, David McQueeney on why there is no ‘golden screw’ for big data.
Video | HealthTap CEO Ron Gutman on the challenges and potential rewards of advancements in mobile health care.
Facebook’s Director of Engineering, Jocelyn Goldfein, speaks with the Post’s Emi Kolawole about the mythology surrounding computer science and why girls are particularly discouraged from pursuing a career in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.
Facebook’s Director of Engineering, Jocelyn Goldfein, speaks with the Post’s Emi Kolawole about why there are so few girls and women pursuing the maths and sciences, and what it will take to make engineering, in particular, “cool.”
Facebook’s Director of Engineering, Jocelyn Goldfein, speaks with the Washington Post's Emi Kolawole about what it takes to get in the door of Facebook’s engineering department, and the unique challenge girls face on the path to a career in software engineering.
Video | Legend is a Grammy Award-winning musician, but he also loves math and science.
Video | Legend goes through some of what it takes to be a successful musician.
Video | The Grammy Award-winning recording artist spoke with the Post’s Emi Kolawole about what Innovation means to him.
Google released a video on YouTube which follows a potential day in the life of a Google glasses user. The new technology is still in testing and would allow the wearer to connect with the Web.
Honest Beverage co-founder, president and TeaEO Seth Goldman discusses the need to continue to stress creativity in education.
Honest Beverage co-founder, president and TeaEO (yes, TeaEO) Seth Goldman sat down with the Post's Emi Kolawole after a panel discussion at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C. to discuss his recommendation for the Occupy movement and his own transition from being a non-profit activist to a for-profit one.
Honest Beverage co-founder, president and TeaEO (yes, TeaEO) Seth Goldman sat down with the Post's Emi Kolawole after a panel discussion at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, D.C. to discuss what it takes for young people, inordinately burdened by the economic downturn, to get a job at Honest Tea.
MetricStream CEO Shellye Archambeau spoke with The Washington Post's Emi Kolawole about what the next president will need to do in order to cut down on unemployment and grow the nation's innovation economy.
MetricStream CEO Shellye Archambeau spoke with The Washington Post's Emi Kolawole about the disparity between why people get hired and why they get fired.
MetricStream CEO Shellye Archambeau speaks with The Post's Emi Kolawole about what companies are looking for in when it comes to hiring in the new global economy.
MetricStream CEO Shellye Archambeau talks with The Post's Emi Kolawole during Black History Month about the power of having a plan in order to capitalize on an unforeseen opportunity.
Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, technology pioneer and founder of Moon Express, Intelius and Info Space. He sat down with the Post's Emi Kolawole to discuss the innovations he has his eye on.
aveen Jain is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, technology pioneer and founder of Moon Express, Intelius and Info Space. He sat down with the Post's Emi Kolawole to discuss what role the next president must play in order to bring the "spirit" of innovation back to the United States.
Naveen Jain is an entrepreneur, philanthropist and founder of Moon Express, Intelius and Infospace. He sat down with the Post's Emi Kolawole to discuss the limitlessness of innovation and creativity.
Purpose co-founder and CEO Jeremy Heimans discusses with The Post's Emi Kolawole what it takes to turn a low-touch engagement organization, such as Livestrong, into one of action and activism.
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