Design & Tech

The Pitch Contest: When Tech Startups Go Head to Head

At a Downtown Brooklyn competition, an app to reduce student-loan debt takes the prize

By Michael Stahl

Design & Tech

What If the Tech Boom Sputters? How Startups Can Prepare

A Brooklyn venture capitalist offers advice for entrepreneurs as the economy shows signs of cooling off

By Michael Stahl

Design & Tech

A Whimsical Shop Where Every Picture Tells a Story

Perfect for Instagram, the Risk boutique in Bushwick reflects the playful tastes of an owner who aims to evoke 'Barbie's closet'

By Katie Warren

Design & Tech

How a Plan to Save Journalism Stumbled Out of the Gate

Brooklyn-based Civil tried a novel approach: cryptocurrency. But it failed to launch. Where does it go from here?

By Tyler Woods

Design & Tech

Is Brooklyn’s Blockchain Industry Becoming a Real Business?

At a Williamsburg conference, experts in the blossoming technology aimed to sort out the hope from the hype

By Tyler Woods

Design & Tech

A Showcase for ‘Smart Glasses’ Opens in Brooklyn

With a swanky new Cobble Hill shop, a tech startup aims to succeed where Google Glass failed to click

By Emily Nonko

Design & Tech

Tokens of Support for Beto O’Rourke, Made in Brooklyn

A Red Hook artist's coins are popping up in Texas to promote the Senate candidate challenging Ted Cruz

By VALERIE STIVERS

Design & Tech

Apple Discovers a New Stage for Its Fanfare: Brooklyn

For the first time, the iconic company brings one of its keynote announcements to New York—to a rousing reaction

By Stephen Koepp

Design & Tech

Inside RLab, a Place to Create Virtual New Realities

The Brooklyn VR center is designed to help the city seize the opportunities in a field "ready for explosive growth"

By Stephen Koepp

Design & Tech

5G Wireless Is Coming! OK, What Exactly Does That Mean?

Much of the advanced thinking in the field happens in Brooklyn, where we talked with NYU Tandon's resident guru

By Arden Phillips