Freddie Figgers is an inventor, computer programmer, software engineer, and entrepreneur. He is the youngest person in history to hold a FCC license, which allows him to operate his own cell phone company.

Freddie was abandoned at birth, but was…

US companies invest an estimated $8 billion on diversity and inclusion training without clear metrics to determine the effectiveness and employee performance. But they don’t always go as planned. Employees can walk away from these trainings with triggered emotions. Clorama…

Akon, the top-selling ringtone artist of all time, is building a futuristic city in Senegal that will trade exclusively in Akoin: a cryptocurrency named after himself. If you have been away from the news for a while, yes, this…

Marshawn Lynch may no longer be a Seahawk, but that’s not stopping a Seattle-area wireless carrier from teaming with the NFL star for a new phone service called Beast Mobile. A hero in Seattle sports history thanks to…

Just as the highly anticipated movie Hidden Figures, the story of three African-American women who were crucial in the launch of the first American into orbit, got released in theaters, more news of black female achievement in STEM (science, technology…

As the country holds its breath in anticipation of who will take Barack Obama’s chair in the Oval Office, the president is considering how to get his résumé into the right hands after his eight-year lease on the White House…

Over 30 million Americans have used an online dating service or mobile dating app, according to Pew Research Center. Yet Black online users face apparent bias: Data collected from 25 million OkCupid accounts demonstrated that when users rated their matches…

Apple’s ambitions to go head to head with Netflix and create its own lineup of exclusive movies and TV shows has long been the subject of much chatter and speculation. But its first original TV project a nonscripted series about…

Slinging your credit card information all over the web may be the norm when you’re online shopping, but playing fast and loose with those precious numbers is just begging for identity theft to happen. A new company dubbed Privacy.com thinks…

Web users face an even greater threat to their privacy as large ISPs align themselves more closely with data brokers to track their customers, an advocacy group said. Several large ISPs have either formed partnerships with, or acquired, data tracking…

Ryan Leslie gave every fan his phone number. It’s (915) 600-6978. But instead of a million unwanted phone calls, it’s making him money and giving him deeper intelligence about his listeners than anyone in the music business. That’s why A16z’s…

As part of Intel’s $300 million commitment to diversity, the company has announced a multi-year partnership and $1.3 million investment in CODE2040, a non-profit organization that helps get Black and Latino/a students of color involved in tech. This comes a…

A new algorithm could both improve your knowledge and do away with formal tests altogether. Developed by researchers at Stanford University and Google in California, it analyses students’ performance on past practice problems, identifies where they tend to go wrong…

 

Yahoo will now warn users if they have been targeted by state-sponsored attackers. 

Bob Lord, the company's newly appointed chief information security officer, said in a blog post that it will notify users if it suspects suspect that their…

The humble mouthguard that C-shaped piece of plastic that protects an athlete’s teeth has remained relatively unchanged for the past 60 years. But today, the most unassuming part of a football player’s gear is poised for a technological makeover that…

Akon, a hip-hop star who's collaborated with everyone from Eminem to Andy Samberg, is about to release
his first albums in seven years but you won't find them in stores or on streaming services like Spotify.
Instead, he plans to…

Harrowing images reveal one of west-Africa's vast electronic graveyards where 'millions of tons' of discarded appliances
from all over the world are being dumped every year.Thousands of broken televisions, computers, microwaves and refrigerators
are being illegally exported to African countries…

How does a video streaming service with one billion active users per month and $4 billion in
revenue not turn a profit? Ask YouTube, which couldn't break free from breaking even in 2014,
according to a new report. Sources tell…

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Jan 27 warned hotels and other entities
against blocking personal Wi-Fi access, or hot spots, saying it was illegal and could incur
heavy fines."The Enforcement Bureau has seen a disturbing trend in which hotels…

You read that correctly. Sony is coming out with a Walkman — you remember those, right?
It's going to cost over $1,100. The product, called the Walkman ZX2, was announced at the
CES conference in Las Vegas. Sony is pushing…

Verizon agreed to a proposed settlement under which it would pay $64.2 million to settle
claims that it overcharged customers who signed up for family plans. Family SharePlan
customers were allegedly billed for in-network calls that were supposed to be…

Google now wants to add a new title to it's portfolio: medical science innovators. We'll just call
them the new body snatchers. 

Google is in the early stages of creating tiny, magnetic nanoparticles that will be able
to search the…

A solution to the long-contested issue of nightclub performance royalties may
come in the form of a small black box. Leading audio-equipment manufacturer
Pioneer has developed a product -- KUVO, a play on kumo, the Japanese word
for cloud --…

There is a new social network on the rise and it’s called Ello. Ello is a simple, beautiful,
and ad-free social network created by a small group of artists and designers. They say,
“We originally built Ello as a private…