8 Million metric tons of plastic ends up in the oceans everyday. Now some companies are taking that plastic and turning into something useful. Both HP and Ikea for example now have products that are made from plastic that was intercepted before it hit the ocean.

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Nowadays, there’s a big emphasis on having a fun workplace culture. But is that sustainable in the long run - and more importantly, is a fun workplace culture actually healthy?

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One of the worst-kept secrets in Silicon Valley is that it takes a whole lot of human labour to make artificial intelligence...intelligent. Enter Hive, a Silicon Valley-based startup that's embracing this human element to provide AI-powered image recognition that's "orders of magnitude better than Google," as cofounder Kevin Guo puts it.

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There are many financial literacy programs out there, but are they actually proven to work? Or do their participants slip back into financial illiteracy out of habit and/or lifestyle?

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Why would anyone invest in your company you work for? What’s the ROI investing in you? Will you have added value in the future?

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On Canada’s first day of legal pot, an enterprising Canadian girl scout sold all her cookies in 45 minutes.

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Bankruptcy is a powerful tool for fighting predatory bills. The problem is that filing for bankruptcy can be prohibitively expensive. But this app helps you do it for free.

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Isn’t it nice to walk outside and navigate by the glow of the moon? But often, it’s not quite bright enough to read a street sign - well a Chinese space company  aims to fix that.

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Imagine this: You wake up in the morning and get dressed, for work, not in the clothes that you own, but in the ones that you rent - the ones that arrived last night. You head out to your office, which isn’t your office, because you’re likely a freelancer, and drop off some of the other clothes that you’d rented earlier in the week. There’s a possibility that this is going to be a reality very soon.

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For those of you who are lucky enough to have an electric car, finding a charging spot might now have become a little easier thanks to Google Maps. They’ve now added support for EV chargers  to the iOS and Android versions.

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