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An Investor Reveals How To Land Your Startup's First Round Of Funding

Steve Schlafman has been a member of the New York City tech community for years, as both an entrepreneur and an investor. He created StickyBits which turned into fleeting viral sensation, Turntable.fm....

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Bill Nye's Debate With Creationists Is Tonight

The day is finally here! Bill Nye is debating creationist Ken Ham tonight at 7 p.m. EST. At 8:45 p.m. there will be a Q&A session with the debaters. You can watch the debate streamed live on...

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Ray Kurzweil Explains How Our Brains Will Be Powered By Computers In 2035

We've previously reported on transhumanism, the odd combining of man and machine that forces us to ask a lot of complicated questions about what it means to be a human.One of the great thinkers on the...

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Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Awarded $100 Million In Stock And $6 Million In...

Google has given its chairman Eric Schmidt $100 million worth of restricted stock and a $6 million cash bonus because of the company's performance in 2013, according to an SEC filing.Schmidt will get...

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This One Stat Shows Just How Far Behind Silicon Valley Is On Gender Equality

What do the boards of directors of TiVo, Pandora, CafePress, Intersil, Zynga, Shutterfly, Salesforce, Rovi, Coherent, Thoratec, and LinkedIn all have in common?They all have just one woman director....

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The US And Canada Were Embarrassing Other Countries In Women's Hockey So The...

The United States and Canada are so dominant in women's hockey that the format for the tournament at the Winter Olympics was changed so that other countries would be blown out less often.Instead of...

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Dogecoin Just Solved A Problem That Bitcoin Is Going To Face

The price of Dogecoin, the world's third most traded cyrptocurrency, is down 9% this afternoon.And that's a great thing. Because the update from Dogecoin's creators causing the temporary price drop...

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Author Of Forthcoming Book Has A Brutal Take Down Of Apple Under Tim Cook (AAPL)

Former Wall Street Journal reporter Yukari Iwatani Kane has a book coming in March on Apple called "Haunted Empire, Apple After Steve Jobs".Kane was a great Apple reporter at the Journal, and the...

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George Clooney Took Huge Pay Cut For 'Monuments Men,' Says 'Everybody Worked...

"The Monuments Men" may boast an A-list cast that includes George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bill Murray, and Cate Blanchett, but the film was anything but big budget.In a new interview with Variety, Clooney...

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This South African Whiskey Ad Will Bring Tears To Your Eyes

Bell's whisky just released a heartwarming new commercial that is, by our estimation, the most inspiring ad of the new year.The ad tells the story of a graying South African man who, despite his...

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I Quit Facebook Cold Turkey And My Life Is Totally Unchanged (FB)

My dad created my Facebook account in 2004.The fledgling social network was becoming the hot new thing on college campuses around the country. It presented itself as a site where you could gossip and...

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4 Personal Finance Questions Everyone Should Be Able To Answer

Investing is complicated, and it may seem easy to hand your financial future over to an advisor and wipe your hands of it.But that's a mistake. Even if you have an advisor, it's incredibly important to...

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Oklahoma City Brewery Created An Amazing T-Shirt Trolling Seahawks Fans

When the Seahawks won the Super Bowl, it was the city of Seattle's first major sports championship since the SuperSonics won the NBA title in 1979.Of course the SuperSonics now play in Oklahoma City as...

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CHART: The 20 Best College Basketball Teams Through 14 Weeks

To get a sense of which college basketball teams have played the best so far this season we compiled a list of the 20 highest-rated teams so far using both the traditional RPI formula (via ESPN.com)...

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Health Care Might Be Real Opportunity For Apple's Smart Watch

Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.DOES APPLE...

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How Michael Kors Went From Design School Dropout To Billionaire Fashion Tycoon

Fashion designer Michael Kors became a billionaire Tuesday as shares of his namesake company surged 18% after reporting that its third quarter profit jumped 77%.The 54-year-old CEO founded the luxury...

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How A 19-Year-Old Skied To The South Pole Faster Than Anyone In History

Parker Liautaud set a record in December as the fastest unsupported person to ski from the Antarctic Coast to the South Pole, completing the 314-mile journey in 18 days. At 19, the polar adventurer is...

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The Ivy League Colleges With The Most On-Campus Drug And Alcohol Arrests

Last week, we brought you a series of maps showing which colleges across the country have the most on-campus drug and alcohol arrests.Surprisingly, or not, all of the Ivy League schools were absent...

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Microsoft Sets Nadella's Salary At $1.2M

Satya Nadella had a big day today.Microsoft's newly appointed chief will have a base salary of $1.2 million, which is more than 70% higher than the base pay his predecessor, Steve Ballmer, was making,...

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If The World Were Only 100 People, Here's What It Would Be Like

The seven billionth person on Earth was likely born on October 31, 2011, according to United Nations data. With this milestone, how the planet can sustain such a large population has become an urgent...

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