Liam Smith, 16, bent over a small circuit board and an array of lights, frowning. The lights his teacher had programmed, on display as an example, shone and rippled. His barely flickered. Not good. "I just want mine super-bright. Like blindingly bright," said Smith, a...
Alphabet, the holding company above Google and Google’s ambitious offshoots, has named finance and insurance veteran Roger Ferguson to its board. Ferguson, an economist, is currently president and CEO of insurance giant TIAA. From 1997 to 2006, he sat on the governing board of the Federal...
Quardean Lewis-Allen has always had a creative streak. “My mother said I couldn’t be a comedian,” he says, so he found architecture. Got his bachelor’s from SUNY Buffalo, and a master’s from Harvard. “It was mostly me thinking about how to make that profitable, to support...
On the heels of President Barack Obama’s Global Entrepreneurship Summit at Stanford University, an international group of influential Black Stanford alumni today announced the creation of a $5 million investment fund that will provide financial support and resources to techpreneurs that are current students and...
In a bid to develop a pool of more diverse job candidates, Google is cutting out the pipeline and going right to the source. Tomorrow, Black Girls Code will celebrate the opening of a new office inside Google’s New York City building. The organization will use...