Inside Google X, The New Bell Labs
For the first time ever, Google has let a journalist into the secretive Google X labs where an eccentric team of big thinkers is hatching plans for the technology of tomorrow. We're talking about hove...
16 Apr 201416min
China's One App to Rule them All
Forget Facebook or Twitter. With the inadvertent help of Chinese government censorship, an app called WeChat has taken over the lives of Chinese-Americans. It's part family lifeline, part public squar...
9 Apr 201416min
Parenting Strategies for the Digital Age
Shhhh...don’t tell the kids, but grown-ups are mostly just making up the rules as they go along, especially when it comes to technology and child rearing. This week on New Tech City, we give you a cha...
2 Apr 201419min
The Way We Teach Computing Hurts Women
Up until the mid 1980s, women flocked to computer science in droves. Then they dwindled away like the dinosaurs. Now, only about 12 percent of computer science majors are women and they hold just one ...
26 Mar 201419min
A Labor Revolution or a Return to Serfdom: Could You Thrive in the Gig Economy?
Freelance nation. Micro-work. The gig economy. Call it what you like, it's growing. But can you really make a living taking one-off jobs from websites like TaskRabbit or Fiverr? Fast Company writer S...
19 Mar 201413min
The Hottest Thing From Google Is Over Before It Began
This post is by New Tech City host Manoush Zomorodi.
12 Mar 20148min
The Simple Steps Behind World Class Efficiency
The Toyota Production System was developed to maximize efficiency on the auto production line, but some of its guiding principles — "just-in-time" and "built-in-quality" — can be applied to daily life...
6 Mar 20148min
Emoji Gone Wild: We Text Without Words for a Month
The more we access the web from mobile devices, the more visual our communications seem to become. Smartphone cameras enable us to express ourselves through the photos and videos we spread around on a...
26 Feb 201426min
