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A Space-Age Idea

NASA’s first African American female astronaut, Dr. Mae Jemison, has turned her career at the space agency into a business opportunity. In 1999, Jemison started BioSentient Corp. in Houston to...

SXSW 2012: New Financial Tools Set to Create a Cashless Society

SXSW 2012: New Financial Tools Set to Create a Cashless Society

As the world moves to digital platforms, the way we interact with our finances is beginning to change. There's more to handling money electronically than just checking your statement online, and “The Future of Money” panel at SXSW highlights some emerging technologies that will most certainly change how we interact with money for years to come

Black Girls Code Competes to Win $50,000 in Microsoft Azure Developers Competition

Black Girls Code Competes to Win $50,000 in Microsoft Azure Developers Competition

Black Girls Code (BGC) is in the running to win a $50,000 grant from Microsoft’s Azure developer community. BGC is currently in the lead of the international public vote competition, with technology education nonprofits Code.org, which is focused on getting more children interested in computer science, in second place and CoderDojo, which aims to teach today’s youth how to code, in third.

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