Robotics, for some students, is captivating, compelling and the way in which they connect what they learn in the classroom to a practical effort they’re personally invested in. The RoboDoves at Western High School is as strong an example as any.

During Philly Tech Week, the Startup Pitch Night featured advice from those who have already been there including Mike Levinson, a founder of both WizeHive and DreamIt Ventures. Here are 11 of his 30 pieces of advice.

AT&T Digital Life is an all-digital fully integrated home security and automaton service. It equips customers with the ability to control their homes using a smartphone, tablet or PC from anywhere.

Cofounder Neil Blumenthal grew up in New York, his family and wife were there and so, in truth, Philadelphia would have been the poacher, not the “poach-ee,” he said, but the opportunity to grow a big consumer startup in a non-traditional market is getting even easier.

If you wanted to create detailed aerial maps on your own, you could do worse than a camera on a balloon. That’s why two dozen people were on Penn’s Landing last Wednesday for a Philly Tech Week-inspired Balloon Mapping Workshop. Led by freelance mapmaker Dana Bauer, New Jersey state GIS staffer Sean McGinnis and a […]

The Maryland State Archives oversees five servers that operate Internet services for more than 30 state agencies, and all five are vulnerable to cyber attacks, reports the Baltimore Sun. From the Sun: The Maryland State Archives, which oversees the five servers, did not update the operating systems in more than five years, auditors found. Without the protective […]

In an e-mail Riskive founder James Foster said Gustafson had listed Riskive as her top choice for the VFA fellowship.

The 3rd Ward open house, which was part of Philly Tech Week and featured 'Light Graffiti' in which attendees created small magnet-powered lights and put them on nearby fire hydrants and the like, was an interesting test of its impact on South Kensington.

In the last 20 years of the Internet, words and the writers best skilled at making them have excelled, fueled of late by social media with a text focus. But all of that seems to be changing. The visual web now appears to be playing favorites with photographers and video specialists.

The SEED School of Maryland wants to purchase 60 laptops for its rising class of ninth-grade students.