Author: gyasistory

By Greg Kumparak Have you ever been sitting around bored and found yourself trying to get some random household object — a battery, a pen, whatever — to spin around like a top? Disney has taken that idea to a pretty grand extreme. Combining the power of 3D printing and some damned clever physics work,…

By Cat Zakrzewski Looking around their engineering classes at the University of Illinois, Supriya Hobbs and Janna Eaves noticed something was missing — other girls. And so like good engineers, they set out to solve that problem. The recent graduate and college senior invented Miss Possible, a doll and accompanying app aiming to spark an…

By Christoffer O. Hernæs One of the big subjects of discussion in the banking industry earlier this year was the publication of the Millennial Disruption Index, stating that millennials view banks as irrelevant and placing traditional retail banking at the highest risk of disruption compared to other B2C industries. Accenture’s Banking 2020 report confirms this…

By Alex Wilhelm President Barack Obama spoke in favor of net neutrality this week, pushing back against the idea of paid prioritization, which many call Internet ‘fast lanes.’ Following the president’s comments, a number of technology companies joined cultural and privacy groups in praising the American leader. The corporations and organizations penned a letter citing…

By Cat Zakrzewski In the tech world, we’re used to seeing young entrepreneurs, from Mark Zuckerberg to Evan Spiegel. But not this young. A group of four middle schoolers from Torrance, California, spent their summer vacation building BankIt, a simple game inspired by Flappy Bird. Their parents wanted them to learn what it was like…