Is this your space?

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The New MySpace opened its doors to the public. Perhaps it’s time to find your niche network.

The Empire writes back

The Galactic Empire has responded to the White House’s rejection of the Death Star petition.

The Graph Search reminder

Facebook’s new search feature is yet another reminder of the big value of users’ data.

Hacktivist hero ascendant

Hacktivist hero ascendant

Society, it seems, is finally embracing the hacktivist hero — the technologist who uses his or her coding and programming skills to make the world a better place.

We the people want a Death Star

We the people want a Death Star

The White House rejects a petition calling on the government to build a Death Star.

Can we do better than the toilet?

Can we do better than the toilet?

According to the cover story for this week’s Economist, talk of innovation stagnation has little merit.

Hayley Tsukayama

Hayley Tsukayama

Facebook introduces feature to search for friends’ interests and ‘likes’

Company officials say the tool will let it leverage social data for searches, a market Google dominates.

Hayley Tsukayama

Hayley Tsukayama

NRA faces backlash over shooting app

The pro-gun group is facing criticism for an app that it released a month after the Newtown shootings.

Hayley Tsukayama

Hayley Tsukayama

Facebook’s big announcement: What could it be?

The social network has been very quiet about its impending news, and the speculation is in high gear.

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Can ‘big data’ lift people out of cycles of debt?

To better gauge the arguments on both sides of this question, we ask a financial-technology investor and a big data entrepreneur.

A clock is displayed on a wall at the Verdin Corp. production facility in Cincinnatti, Ohio, U.S., on Friday, Nov. 11, 2012. The Institute for Supply Management is scheduled to release the results of its survey of purchasing managers at U.S. factories on Dec. 3. Photographer: Ty Wright/Bloomberg

Study: We’re measuring productivity wrong

A Brookings study outlines policy proposals to create an “innovation-based economy.”

Our digital mythology

The film “Zero Dark Thirty” is an example of how mythology has changed in the digital age.

‘Wouldn’t it be better if ... ?’

A new platform, Betterific, seeks to be the universal suggestion box of the future.

The cyber-diplomat era

With Sen. John Kerry nominated to be the next Secretary of State, the U.S. has a unique opportunity to embrace “21st century statecraft.”

Groans and yawns greet CES

Some in the tech world are less than enthusiastic about the nation’s largest trade show.

Innovations Contributors

The 5 predictions for 2013

COLUMN | From health care to manufacturing, the coming year is on track to be an exciting one for humanity, according to Wadhwa

Hacktivist hero ascendant

Society, it seems, is finally embracing the hacktivist hero — the technologist who uses his or her coding and programming skills to make the world a better place.

The Empire writes back

The Galactic Empire has responded to the White House’s rejection of the Death Star petition.

Innovations: Guest Voices

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 03:  U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz speaks during a news conference regarding the agency’s 21-month-long investigation on Google January 3, 2013 at the FTC headquarters in Washington, DC. FTC announced that Google has agreed to change some of its business practices, including giving competitors access to standard-essential patents and letting advertisers to get more flexibility to use rival search engines, to resolve the agency's competition concerns in the markets for devices like smart phones, games and tablets and in online searching.  (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The perfect result

What do Google’s advances in search mean for the future definition of monopoly?

The dyslexia advantage

The dyslexia advantage

In an interview with Richard Branson, Schwartz discovers how the disability didn’t get in Branson’s way. In fact, it did the opposite.

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Now, it’s your turn...

"If you could design your own tree house — your personal castle in the sky, if you will — what would it look like? Where would you build it?"

Tedx comes to Washington

Innovation in the Twitterverse

Tour the world and follow the innovation conversation on Twitter. (source: UMapper)