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Mark your calendar: A16Z Tech Week returns to Boston, Monday, April 26 to Sunday, May 2, 2027. Lucia Maffei has the details at the link in the first comment. (Photo: A rooftop party at WHOOP, from Boston Tech Week 2026.) #BOSTechWeek

This morning was one of those days where you could actually FEEL the power of smart people in Massachusetts to shape industries and improve the world. The MIT Museum hosted MassLive.com’s “25 Most Influential Innovators” breakfast, sponsored by Aspen Aero Group. The room was full of entrepreneurs working on quantum…

This past Saturday, when I should have been cleaning up the yard and folding some laundry, I was instead gazing into my laptop in the kitchen, finishing up a certificate program in artificial intelligence. The set of seven online courses I took is part of a new state offering, announced last month, that's free for…

This past Saturday, when I should have been cleaning up the yard and folding some laundry, I was instead gazing into my laptop in the kitchen, finishing up a certificate program in artificial intelligence. The set of seven online courses I took is part of a new state offering, announced last month, that's free for…

Over the course of the last year, if you live or work in Cambridge, you've probably watched the demolition of this building in the heart of Kendall Square. In the 1960s, at the height of the Space Race, it was supposed to be Kendall Square's future: a NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration electronic…

This morning was one of those days where you could actually FEEL the power of smart people in Massachusetts to shape industries and improve the world. The MIT Museum hosted MassLive.com’s “25 Most Influential Innovators” breakfast, sponsored by Aspen Aero Group. The room was full of entrepreneurs working on quantum…