Cards Against Humanity offers Carlin’s 7 bad words for good cause
Cards Against Humanity is apparently for humanity, or at least for the Chicago Design Museum. Makers of the wildly popular party game — think Apples to Apples but with adult...
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Rauner signs equity crowdfunding bill into law
Gov. Bruce Rauner has signed into law legislation that allows Illinois companies to take investments in exchange for equity through crowdfunding platforms — called equity crowdfunding. The law will take...
Gramovox Floating Record set for production as $1.6M Kickstarter ends
The books are closed on Gramovox's $1.6 million Kickstarter campaign for its vertical record player, and CEO Pavan Bapu is determined not to become the next Central Standard Timing. CST,...
Fallacy Ref nears goal line: An app to rule on debates
Let's say you sent a card to your mother on her birthday and now find yourself arguing with a friend about whether you also should have called her. "Don't you...
Grainger, Caterpillar, Allstate highlight Corporate Startup Challenge
Grainger and Caterpillar are joining Allstate for the fourth class in the Illinois Science and Technology Coalition's Corporate Startup Challenge, it was announced Tuesday. The program, launched in 2013, aims...
Cut from New Trier’s team, Ben Klimesh now works his way through Reds’ system
All Ben Klimesh ever wanted was to be a big-league ballplayer. So there was a twinge, even eight years later, as he looked back to the day he was cut...
Navistar, cool tech and truck convoys that play follow the leader
We might have to wait a few years to see driverless semis, but "platooning" could be just around the corner. If you're of a certain age, close your eyes and...
MakerBot CEO eyes schools, design engineers for 3D printer sales
Wasn't it just last year that MakerBot was the upstart darling of the tech world? So why was Jonathan Jaglom, the new CEO of the New York-based desktop 3D printer...
Ashley Madison website for cheating spouses is hacked
If some of your married co-workers seemed a bit distracted Monday, they might have been nervously following news that online infidelity site Ashley Madison was hacked. A group calling itself...
Kickstarter, Central Standard Timing and the futility of a lawsuit
It's hard to imagine a more clear-cut failure than Central Standard Timing, the Chicago-based Kickstarter project that raised $1 million two years ago and now seems to be out of...