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American Underground Founder Asks You To Know Your Role 2

By Corey Cummings June 11, 2012

Michael Goodmon, owner of American Tobacco Campus and founder of American Underground, gave a keynote speech to the very first graduating class of the Triangle Startup Factory, an accelerator focused on helping along fledgling companies in the Southeast region of the United States. In his...

Turner Broadcasting Introduces Its Startup Accelerator’s Inaugural Class 3

By Techli Team June 11, 2012

Media giant Turner Broadcasting Systems owns classic brands, like CNN and Turner Sports, that...

The Technology Behind the Technology in Prometheus Steals the Show 4

By Techli Team June 11, 2012

Prometheus, the prequel to the Alien film franchise, opened this weekend in theaters across North...

Can’t Find Your Keys? Ask Your Kinect Where They Are 5

By Corey Cummings June 11, 2012

If you’re prone to misplacing items around the house and also a Kinect owner, computer science...

Historical Fiction Author Takes A Swing At Perfecting Swordfighting In Games 6

By Corey Cummings June 10, 2012

Science and historical fiction author Neal Stephenson hates sword fighting in video games today. In...

Many Wi-Fi Networks Are Running At 1/5 Speed 7

By Jon Christian June 10, 2012

Researchers in the Netherlands say that the density of Wi-Fi networks in heavily populated areas is...

Refugees From The Etsy Police Flee To Storenvy 8

By Jon Christian June 10, 2012

Coverage this spring has unearthed an uneasy underbelly to handcrafted and vintage e-commerce...

Surgeons Go Hands-Free With Microsoft’s Kinect 9

By Corey Cummings June 10, 2012

Microsoft’s Kinect motion camera isn’t just a gaming tool anymore. Since May, doctors at St....

Spotwag: The Underdog Dog-Sitter Startup 10

By Techli Team June 9, 2012

Traveling has never been easier and cheaper thanks to collaborative consumption marketplaces like...

Art Lab: MoMA’s Second Mobile App Encourages Learning Through Creation 11

By Corey Cummings June 9, 2012

After the introduction of its first iPhone app back in 2010, New York’s Museum of Modern Art has...

Is Google A ‘Brand Killer’? 12

By Jon Christian June 9, 2012

Google fired back Friday against charges that its search policies and market dominance make the...

The Voice Of The Network: Douglas Coupland’s Audio-Visual Representation Of Online Data 13

By Corey Cummings June 9, 2012

In a pairing with telecommunications company Alcatel-Lucent and musician Paul Humphreys, tech...

Absinthe, Ovaltine, And Google Product Search. Soon To Be Renamed Again. 14

By Jon Christian June 8, 2012

Google “absinthe.” Here, try it. It pulls up shopping results – helpful, right? – and look!...

SlideDeck 2 Makes Visual Storytelling Just A Plugin Away 15

By Techli Team June 8, 2012

The aesthetic of the web is changing. Images are getting bigger, video content is getting popular,...