This year’s game “Crossover” required teams to manipulate and score unique 6-sided hex-balls and also maneuver their robots onto a balancing teeter-totter ramp. The tournament winner, the “Excellence Award” recipient, was FH Clergue’s team “S.M.A.K.”, winning points in all 7 scoring categories and taking home the trophy for the best combined score for performance and all judging categories.

The U.S. Justice Department asked a judge Monday to throw out a lawsuit from Microsoft and keep a law that prohibits technology companies from telling customers when the government demands their electronic data. Microsoft says its customers have a constitutional right to know when the government collects their private information during criminal investigations.

Space exploration is thirsty work, so if humankind ever colonizes the moon, we can thank this team of engineering students for providing the adult refreshments. Ever since the popularity of craft beer catapulted itself to the stratosphere, amateur homebrewers have spent countless hours concocting IPAs, pale ales, or porters in the confines of their garages.

This attempt at “reading the tea leaves” is to understand the relationship among investments, sales growth, operations, and profit.

For time-poor entrepreneurs, technology can really improve a business’s efficiency by automating as many administrative tasks as possible. This is particularly important when it comes to chasing those all-too-common late payments.