Is Silicon Valley bad for your health?Grueling hours. Stress. Junk food and Red Bull. Obesity is rising in America’s economic frontier, and the health consequences could be dire.
Can big data help you get a good night’s sleep?Large-scale computing power, combined with input from millions of fitness trackers, could help unlock the mysteries of our national insomnia.
The great stem cell dilemmaBreakthroughs promise a new era in medicine, and billionaire donors like Eli Broad and Bill Gross are lending support. But not even Andy Grove can figure out how to make the business work.- Lessons from the land of cheap broadbandWhat happens when telcos practically give it away ($13 for 100 megs!)? NiQ Lai, chief financial officer of Hong Kong’s City Telecom , stopped by FORTUNE’s San Francisco offices this week while on an investor tour. I had one question for him: Short of moving to Hong Kong, how can I get some of what […]
Green tech: Floating city nears maiden voyageRoyal Caribbean Cruises hopes enviro-friendly Oasis of the Seas can burnish its green image. The world’s largest cruise ship — featuring 16 decks and an interior Central Park that’s longer than a football field with more than 12,000 species of flora — is drawing ever closer to its home port of Port Everglades, Florida, where […]- California: Too Big Not to Fail?California: Too Big Not to Fail?
- Microsoft rebootsAfter the Vista debacle, Microsoft changed the way it makes software. The result – Windows 7 – is winning raves. Can a new operating system (and a new attitude) help the company take on Google? With Microsoft’s founder and chairman, Bill Gates, trotting the globe in a quest to abolish diseases, his handpicked successor, CEO […]
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