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INNOVATION HUB

Smart (phone) Shoppers


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In this season of holiday shopping, you may notice that customers aren’t just using their smart phones to scope out deals before they visit a store — they’re also using them to compare prices.  (Robert Scoble / Flickr)
NOVA SCIENCENOW

What Will the Future Be Like?


WATCH ONLINE
Meet the people building tomorrow’s robots, mind-reading machines, and more on the latest episode of Nova ScienceNow.
NOVA

Ultimate Mars Challenge


WATCH ONLINE
Go inside NASA's Curiosity mission to Mars. Hear from Mars Science Lab's Rob Manning, John Grotzinger, Ashwin Vasavada, and mission manager Michael Watkins.

Nova: Wednesdays at 9pm on WGBH 2
NOVA

Forensics on Trial


WATCH ONLINE
Forensics in the U.S. is poorly managed and in turmoil. NOVA investigates how an unregulated practice can send innocent men and women to prison — and sometimes even to death row.
Technology

Samsung Fight Among Many In Apple's Patent War


In a federal district court Monday, computing giant Apple will ask for more than $2.5 billion from rival phone maker Samsung for patent violations.

Innovation Hub

Research on Internet Dating


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By Kara Miller
What does the newest research tell us about online dating? Innovation Hub's Kara Miller discusses the question with Bob Seay.
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Big Bets on the Future of Boston Tech


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
We name the big players in the local startup scene and ask: Will they scale the heights — or flame out?
Digital Life

New Online Users Have A Longer Timeline


By Stan Alcorn

For the first time, more than half of adults 65 and older are using the Internet. Looks like few grandparents can resist a wall full of family pictures.

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Don't You Want (to Buy) Me, Baby?


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
There's a lot of activity in mobile advertising again, with venture capitalists pouring money into startups such as Jumptap, Session M and CraveLabs that promise to reach consumers with advertising anywhere they carry their phones.
Technology

This Year, Weather Service Will Begin Pushing Notifications To Cellphones


By Eyder Peralta

The service can also be used for AMBER alerts and for presidential communications in cases of a national emergency.

Technology

A Ride in a Cab That's Optimized for the Blind


By Cristina Quinn
Blind passengers have one big problem taking taxis: They don't know what's on the fare box. The City of Boston is poised to roll out technology that will solve that problem. We take it for a spin.
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Shopping in Public


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
A recently minted public company is trying to create the future of retail. Burlington-based Demandware, valued at over $700 million, makes software to help high-end brands reach more customers online.
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: When Health's a Game


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
Can playing video games make you healthier? That’s the idea behind the “gamification” of health care, a big trend we’re seeing in the Boston tech scene and beyond.
Education

Want to Go to UMass? Get in the Lab


By Sarah Birnbaum
Massachusetts high school students will soon be required to take at least 3 years of lab-based science classes to get into the state's 4-year public universities. 
Pop Culture

The Planetarium Laser Show Returns — with a Twist


By Anne Mostue
Cool, man: This summer, the Museum of Science is bringing back the traditional laser/rock show ... with digital animation, and without lasers.
Innovation Hub

Inside MIT's $100K Entrepreneurship Challenge


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By Kara Miller
Innovation Hub meets the winners of this year's MIT 100K Entrepreneurship Challenge.
Technology

Biotech in Boston: The Present and Future


By Bob Seay & Michelle Liu
With a major biotech conference in town, a local leader talks about the significance of the sector's strength in New England.
Technology

Xconomy Report: Charging Up


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
Can anyone make a battery that's better than the status quo? That might be the turnaround for struggling clean-tech company A123 Systems, which says it has a lithium-ion battery for electric cars.
Innovation Hub

Encore: Crowdsourcing


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By Kara Miller
In an encore edition, Innovation Hub looks at the power of crowdsourcing. What happens you pool wisdom, ideas, solutions — even money?
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Mobile Cashes In


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
Mobile technology is in the air as Boston-area startups SCVNGR, Cartera Commerce and Crashlytics announce significant deals.
Technology

Data Expert Calls LinkedIn Breach 'Alarming'


By Cristina Quinn
LinkedIn has confirmed that more than 6 million passwords on the business social network were stolen and leaked onto the Internet. 
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Counting on 'Big Data'


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
The emerging field of "big data" could help revitalize the state’s tech economy — as long as it doesn’t collapse under the weight of its own hype. Also: Vertex Pharmaceuticals, GreenBytes and MassChallenge.
Business

Is 38 Studios Worth Saving?


By Toni Waterman
Curt Schilling's company has laid off its entire staff. Tim Loew of MassDiGI and Alexander Sliwinski of Joystiq talk about whether it's "game over" for 38 Studios and the impact on the growing regional video game industry.
Innovation Hub

Biotechnology: A Revolution for Medicine?


By Kara Miller
Innovation Hub takes a look at medical procedures and devices that may change how diseases are diagnosed and treated.
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Full 'Metal' Funding


By Gregory T. Huang & Erin Kutz
What’s catching Bill Gates’ attention these days? Local startup Liquid Metal Battery. Its technology could help the grid make better use of renewable energy sources.
Business

State Opens Investigation into Facebook IPO


By Sarah Birnbaum
Massachusetts’ top securities regulator has subpoenaed Morgan Stanley related to allegations that it misled most shareholders about the value of Facebook's IPO.
Technology

The 31 Songs That Cost $675,000


By WGBH News
See and hear the songs Joel Tenenbaum downloaded that were at stake in the BMG lawsuit. You've definitely heard many of them yourself ... and perhaps you even own a few.
Environment

Innovation Spotlight: Recycling Plastics


WHAT HAPPENS TO THE REST OF IT
By Cristina Quinn
Banned in Concord, the plastic water bottle has become a symbol of waste. But an entire industry wants you to keep using plastic ... as long as you toss it in the blue bin. WGBH News finds there is, indeed, a future in plastics.
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: From Technology to the Tea Party


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
Thomas Massie started a tech company and moved West ... and then moved back to Kentucky, where he's a Tea Party darling and favored to win the Republican nomination for Congress.
Business

Facebook, Phone Home!


By Kristina Finn & Danielle Dreilinger
With the big IPO in the headlines, Mass. House Speaker Robert DeLeo put together his own sales pitch: to convince Mark Zuckerberg to move back to the Bay State.
Education

New MIT President Leads in Online Ed


By Danielle Dreilinger
MIT provost L. Rafael Reif received a Tribeca Disruptive Innovation award for his role in the institution's online learning platforms. He talked about the MITx and edX projects with WGBH News.
WGBH News Focus: The MBTA

Get Inside the T — Virtually


WGBH NEWS FOCUS: THE MBTA
By Danielle Dreilinger
The MBTA now offers a mobile map option on Android phones that lets people see inside some stations. But will it be useful?
INNOVATION HUB

Inner-City Programs For The Next Big Thinkers


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By Kara Miller
A look at the innovative programs that are helping inner-city students get the connections, resources and knowledge that it takes to be the next great entrepreneur, scientist or thinker.
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: You Don't Have to 'Like' Him


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
Zuckerberg haters, relax: The social network giant has growing competition in the commerce realm from local startups such as CustomMade, Daily Grommet and Krush.
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: E Pioneers!


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
Everyone's waiting for Facebook's IPO. But sometimes it's good to remember our country's first social network. ...
Education

The Changing Landscape of Online Ed


By WGBH News
edX is making a splash this month -- another example of the academic marketplace filling the space between for-profit schools like the University of Phoenix and the traditional ivy-covered halls.
Education

Harvard, MIT Leaders Discuss Online Initiative


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By Jared Bowen
The provosts of Harvard and MIT joined Emily Rooney to discuss their joint online education initiative — one they think will be a game-changer. Watch Greater Boston on-demand.
Technology

New York's Space Shuttle Fly-By



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By Mark Memmott
Carried atop a jumbo jet, the Enterprise is flying from Northern Virginia to New York City and passed low over the city's five boroughs.
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Fly the Googley Skies


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
A year after Google acquired local startup ITA Software, it appears the giant's travel strategy is more about managing data than finding the best fares.  
WGBH News Focus: The MBTA

Sci-Fi Solutions for the T


WGBH NEWS FOCUS: THE MBTA
By Phillip Martin
Some local experts are working to increase MBTA ridership by developing tools that sound like something out of speculative fiction. 
Environment

Wasting Away: An Earth Day Look At Living Among Garbage



MORE SCIENCE NEWS
By Dana Farrington
Around the globe, waste can tell both an environmental and social story. Here are some reports of communities living in, among and off of others' trash.
Movies

That's Not CGI: At Monsterpalooza, Monsters Are Real



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By Beth Accomando
As usual, this year's summer blockbusters will be stuffed with computer-created aliens, zombies or vampires. Not all filmmakers want virtual creatures, however; at Monsterpalooza, they make their monsters by hand.
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: (Re)generating Excitement


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
A couple of Cambridge companies are gaining ground with their regenerative medicine technology, which uses living cells and other natural materials to promote healing.
Innovation Hub

Swapping Blackboards for iPads: Tech in the Classroom


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By Kara Miller
Children spend more and more time punching out text messages, playing online games, and updating their Facebook pages. Is a tech takeover of the classroom inevitable?
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Mobile Is Moving


By Gregory T. Huang, Editor, Xconomy Boston
While most of the tech world is talking about Facebook's billion-dollar acquisition of Instagram, a couple of local startups in mobile and social apps are making some noise of their own.
INNOVATION HUB

How Social Media Is Shaping Us


LISTEN TO THE SHOW
By Kara Miller
Innovation Hub takes a look at how social media is changing us and the world we live in. What do we share about ourselves? And what do we want to keep secret?
INNOVATION HUB

Brave New Snacktime: Edible Packaging, Breathable Caffeine


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By Kara Miller

We talked with David Edwards on the mad science behind his food inventions, like inhalable chocolate and caffeine.

Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Remembering Norman Priebatsch


By Xconomy.com
The life sciences entrepreneur is missing and presumed dead after a hiking accident in New Hampshire.
Technology

Gamers Invade Massachusetts


WGBH NEWS: PAX EAST SIGNS DEAL
By Will Roseliep
As 75,000 video game fans descend on the Seaport for the PAX East conference, locals say the Bay State has become a major player in the industry. 
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Share and Share Un-Alike


By Xconomy.com
Kibits, a new social networking mobile app, allows users to control exactly what information gets shared with whom — so your colleagues will never, ever see that vacation pic.
NOVA

Lessons from a Fatal Crash


NOVA: How Air Flight France 447 Could Have Been Saved
What have scientists learned from examining the little evidence they obtained from the worst crash in Air France's history? (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Let the Robot Reach the Top Shelf


By Xconomy.com
It's the biggest local deal of the year so far: Amazon has acquired a North Reading company that makes wheeled robots to move packages in warehouses efficiently.
Innovation Hub

The Future of Knowledge: Too Big to Know

By Kara Miller
We're joined by Harvard’s David Weinberger, whose book, Too Big to Know, argues that the rapidly-expanding amount of information available to us is changing how we think and communicate.
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Video Game Medicine


By Xconomy.com
Could your child leave his next checkup with a prescription for a video game? Akili Interactive Labs hopes its game will be the first approved by the FDA as a medical device.
Psychology & The Mind

A Nutrition Label for the News


By Cristina Quinn
You're doing it right now: You're consuming media. Some theorists say our information diet is making us bloated. Here's how they want to help us. EXTRA: What's your favorite media "junk food"?
Technology

Kinetic Theory and Absolute Zero


NOVA: Absolute Zero
INTERACTIVE: States of Matter
Scientists use the theory of kinetic energy to explore ways to harness energy generated from heat and movement.
Technology

Xconomy Report: The Internet Never Forgets


By Xconomy.com
New England tech startups could be instrumental in changing the way companies market their wares in a digital world, with technology to help companies get their stories out on Facebook and merge advertising with mobile apps.
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Tech in the Air


By Xconomy.com
A Google-owned Cambridge software company will introduce a new reservation system for airlines, starting with Hyannis-based Cape Air.
Innovation Hub

Bringing More Women To The Top Of The Business World


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By Kara Miller
We talk to a filmmaker, a vice president at Google and a national news anchor about the future of women in business.
Health Care

Xconomy Report: More Hope for Hep C


By Xconomy.com
The battle for hepatitis C drug market dominance rages on locally, with Vertex honing its drug Telaprevir and Enanta teaming with Novartis to create a new treatment.
WGBH Local News

Studying Libraries, Part 2: The E-Book Battle


STUDYING LIBRARIES, PT. 1
By Sean Corcoran
Librarians are reporting dramatic increases in the numbers of people looking to borrow e-books. But some publishing houses are rethinking whether they want libraries loaning out e-books at all.
Innovation Hub

High-Tech Health: Apps For Exercise, Diet And More

By Kara Miller
We’ll look at high-tech ways of getting healthy — a nutritionist in your pocket, a marathon coach on your mobile phone — and more.
Education

Studying Libraries, Part 1: More with Less


WCAI
By Sean Corcoran
People are looking to libraries to respond to technology and make up for cuts in their own household budgets — and libraries are answering the call.
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Stylin' Students


By Xconomy.com
Fashion isn’t the first word that comes to mind when you hear “Harvard,” but Xconomy has tracked down 19 young, fashion-focused internet companies with founders from the B-school.
Business

Game Conference Sparks Hope in Local Industry


By Toni Waterman & Sanjay Salomon
Officials say the video game conference PAX East’s 10-year commitment to Boston could make Massachusetts the center of the rapidly growing, multi-billion-dollar gaming industry.
Physics & Mathematics

Not X-Ray Vision, Terahertz-Ray Vision


NOVA: Diamond Q & A with Butler
MIT News on Terahertz
Terahertz laser technolgy is a field still to be explored for its possible applications, especially in the field of security scanning.
Physics & Mathematics

Seaching for the Unexpected


NOVA: The Ghost Particle
Listen to David Wark, High Energy Physicist, talk about the search for interesting physics.
Biology & Chemistry

Super Bowl Sensors: The Findings Are In


WGBH NEWS: THE BIOSENSORS GO ON
By Cristina Quinn
Some unexpected data came out of WGBH News' Super Bowl biosensor experiment that could advance a researcher's work on addiction.
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Corporate Eyes Are Watching You


By Xconomy.com
With video conferencing, your competitors can be just as bored as you are: Many video conferences are susceptible to corporate spying, according to Boston software company Rapid7.
Technology

Watching The Super Bowl Online: A Review


SCIENCE + THE SUPER BOWL
By Danielle Dreilinger
The Super Bowl was the most-watched TV show in U.S. history — but for geeks, the excitement was online, with NBC's first-ever web stream. How did the experience measure up?
Sports

The State Of Biosensors And The Super Bowl


By Cristina Quinn
Did the high-stress Super Bowl make your heart pound? During the game, we strapped biosensors on fans to learn about the state of mobile-phone health technology.
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: Finding The Next Facebook


By Xconomy.com
While most of the tech world is analyzing Facebook’s impending IPO, a new effort at Harvard University is trying to find the next Facebook — and keep it in Cambridge.
Innovation Hub

Cars That Fly, Fold Up And Drive Us Forward


By Kara Miller
How can we adapt cars to a world that's rapidly industrializing, urbanizing, and straining to meet its energy needs? 
Innovation Hub

Innovation For An Energy-Hungry World

By Kara Miller
What it will take to generate the energy and fuel for a planet that just hit 7 billion and isn’t done growing? The old gas-and-coal-powered grid is changing. Germany now generates 20% renewable energy, but America has lagged — and our next guest says that’s got to change.
Xconomy

Xconomy Report: It's Hard Out There For A Jerk


By Xconomy.com
An informal survey of Boston-area tech CEOs suggests that being a jerk may be much less beneficial than it used to be.

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