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Will your city be the next tech hub?

Apr 18, 2017
Droves of places beyond New York, Boston and Silicon Valley want to become the next center of local and global innovation. Do they have the right ingredients?
An aerial view shows the Silicon Valley location of IBM in San Jose, California April 21, 2000.
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Y Combinator's Sam Altman on connecting with Trump supporters

Mar 13, 2017
Sam Altman, a darling of the tech startup world, talks to us about reaching across the political divide.
Sam Altman of Y Combinator speaks onstage. Altman visited and heard from 100 Donald Trump supporters around the country to get their perspective on the new president.
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The interplanetary Internet, and a new book on gamification

Nov 12, 2012
What happens when you take buttoned-down, MBA-toting business professionals, and turn them into video game designers. And, the internet goes interplanetary.