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What Makes a Genius? The World's Greatest Minds Have One Thing in Common

By Walter Isaacson

How This Woman Is Fighting for Gender Equality in Tech

By Alex Fitzpatrick

Meet the Startup Founder Who Wants to Use the Tech Behind Bitcoin to Revolutionize Wall Street

By Lisa Eadicicco

The Fight to Use Food Stamps Online

By Alex Fitzpatrick
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Meet Tech Startups’ Political Mastermind

Bradley Tusk helps companies like Uber and FanDuel in their confrontations with lawmakers

By Alex Fitzpatrick

Meet the Mastermind Behind Pokémon Go

"It's been this adrenaline fueled thing for the past week"

By Matt Peckham

'Soft Robots' Look Nothing Like the Machines You Know

They look more like sea creatures

By TIME Staff

This Board Game Designer Isn't Sorry About Taking a Big Risk

What it's like to make games for a living

By Alex Fitzpatrick

See What the Smartest Americans Were Doing At Age 25

From Sylvia Plath to Neil deGrasse Tyson

By TIME Staff

Why This Tech Company Is Giving 100 People Free Money

Startup accelerator Y Combinator is testing a Universal Basic Income, in which people get money to spend on whatever they please

By Jacob Davidson

'The Witness' Creator Jonathan Blow on Science, Language and Reality

The outspoken designer on some of the game's interpretations, his issues with the industry, and what he hopes to tackle in the future

By Matt Peckham

A New Push for City Commuters on Two Wheels

Electric bicycles are a staple of commuting around the world, and the U.S. could be next

By Lisa Eadicicco

Are You a Genius?

Geniuses come in all forms, from aerospace engineers and artificial intelligence experts to creative storytellers and environmental advocates. Might you be a genius, too? TIME asked the wise guys (and girls) at Mensa, the world's...

NASA's Ambitious Plan to Help Build The Next Concorde

NASA and Lockheed Martin are working on a design that could fix the Concorde's biggest problem: It was just too loud

By Alex Fitzpatrick

What 7 of the World's Smartest People Think About Artificial Intelligence

Will it help us evolve, or kill us all?

By Matt Peckham

The 100 Most Genius Places in America

See the most innovative places around the country

By David Johnson and Chris Wilson

This Solar Power Plant Can Run All Night

Could it replace conventional energy sources?

By Justin Worland and Josh Raab

Meet the Google Executive Trying to Take On the World's Biggest Environmental Problems

Google's Rebecca Moore talks about how emerging technologies can be used to fix the environment

By Lisa Eadicicco

Inside the Genius of Radiolab and Why It's So Addictive

The show's creator, Jad Abumrad, on how he finds and composes the stories you can't stop listening to

By Cubie King and Matt Vella

Inside the Secret ‘Hotels’ Where the Internet Lives

Take a rare peek inside the heart of the web

By Victor Luckerson
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