New online learning models are bursting from startups and top universities, bridging the educational divide.

We are in the midst of a revolution that will bring high-quality education to hundreds of millions of people who have never had access to this level of learning before.

These tools will reach...

Astro Teller and Megan Smith of Google, with the support of Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin, gathered 50 innovators this past week to brainstorm breakthroughs that could impact the world. The gathering is called Solve for X and now has a new website.

The focus is on science...

What do Gilt, Foodspotting and TaskRabbit all have in common? They were all co-founded by women. This is an encouraging sign in a field that has too few female entrepreneurs.

A recent article in San Francisco Magazine highlights a new crop of women-led startups in...

Riveting. This collection of interviews, some never seen before of key figures in the Black Power movement, is a new critical document of our country's history. Black Power Mixtape takes us from 1967 to 1975, through the eyes of Swedish journalists who came to the U.S. to film the...

"How do you find LaGuardia compared to the Beijing Airport?"

President Obama used this phrase today at CGI to highlight the eroding infrastructure in the US, particularly compared with the fast ramp-up in China.

"Unemployment....lingers for a lifetime"

Obama noted that unemployed young people will be affected for...

An important gathering is coming to NYC this week -- Women in Enterprise (WIE). The WIE symposium is driven by Sarah Brown, Arianna Huffington and Donna Karan and features 400 women leaders.

Despite advances made in the last forty years, there are still far too few women...

This morning just after midnight a NYC taxi crashed into a horse and buggy in front of 40 Central Park South. There have been a number of crashes in the last months with horse-drawn carriages.

The horse had blood on its...

The US has killed Bin Laden and the US is in possession of his body. Here is the complete transcript of President Obama's statement:

"Good Evening. Tonight I can report to the American people and to the world, that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama...

Charlie Sheen has called those in line for the iPad 2 "trolls" -- setting off a wave of queues for the iPad 3. The iPad 3 is not due out until November, but that is not stopping these hearty souls with tiger blood running through their veins.

"Why...

Hugo Chavez, the strongman of Venezuela, has opened a plush resort for ex-dictators in the wake of sweeping liberation movements across many repressed nations.

Mubarak is reported to have arrived last night at Casa Hugo and other toppled leaders have made reservations to join shortly.

The resort has all the...

The FBI announced last week that it failed to come up with financial charges against Angelo Mozilo, the notorious former head of Countrywide Financial and part instigator of the global financial meltdown. Not wanting to let him go they found a new approach to charge Mozilo.

Hertz announced today it is embarking on the largest solar program in its industry. Hertz is installing solar systems on sixteen large facilities across the US in the first phase of a global solar program.

Hertz sees this as a business decision -- it will save money and manage energy...

There are now thousands of of TED videos generated from both the TED main stage as well as numerous TEDx and other satellite events. Here are three talks you may want to take a few moments to watch and get your creative juices flowing:

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New York has gone hotel crazy. New Yorkers now more than ever are spending time at these new hotels for the food, the ambiance and the mix of cultures they bring to the city.

Here are our top seven picks of new hotels:

1. Ace Hotel -- Breslin (

Thousands cannot find their family and friends for Christmas celebrations without Facebook

Facebook was down again on Christmas Eve causing widespread panic as people head home for the holidays. Since many Facebook users have downloaded their social brains into the service, they can no longer recollect who they are related...

Toms Shoes just delivered its millionth pair of shoes to those in need. The Toms model of giving a pair of shoes for every pair it sells is now scaling to new heights.

See the Millionth Pair Video below. I met Toms founder Blake Mycoskie at last...

You heard of phantom limb syndrome - where amputees feel pain in a limb that is not there.

Now a new condition is spreading across the country -- PVS -- Phantom Vibration Syndrome. Millions of people are reporting symptoms of feeling a buzz in their pockets, purses and jackets...

With the culinary renaissance now sweeping across New York City, we await the opening of the Red Rooster by Marcus Samuelsson.

This new Harlem bistro will open next month just a block from Sylvia's on Lenox Avenue. I had the opportunity to sample the new menu at...

When Conde Nast announced that their famed magazine Gourmet would close down, many in the foodie community were shocked that such an icon would no longer exist. Just the archives alone of Gourmet's thousands of recipes seemed reason enough to keep the brand going.

America has fallen behind twenty other countries in science and math education and the trend is getting worse, not better.

This is not just about graduating more scientists and techies. This is a bigger challenge to develop a society that is literate in the technologies that are transforming our...