Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin and Yuri Milner created the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation.
Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin and Yuri Milner, Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, have jointly established the most lucrative annual prize in the history of science to reward research into curing diseases and extending human life.
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Consumers like convenience. As with anything else, it is true with payment technologies. A great example is the trend of getting away from cash or checks and the move toward credit cards.
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Most Web pages can be connected in 19 clicks or less.
The internet is unfathomably vast. But it’s more tightly bound that you may think, according to a new study published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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There are seven innovative strategies to monetize mobile apps.
For mobile developers, monetization is not a simple process. Ads, paid installs, and in-app purchases can all generate revenue for mobile app developers, but they are not the only methods available.
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Satellite shot of the building from the report.
New York Times correspondents David Sanger and David Barboza, and technology reporter Nicole Perlroth are out with a huge report on Chinese cyber-attacks on US companies. The New York Times has gotten their hands on an advanced copy of a report by Mandiant, a cybersecurity firm the newspaper had previously hired when it got hacked.
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Big data has limitations.
David Brooks, a New York Times columnist, was at a dinner with the chief executive of a large bank not too long ago. Given the weak economy and the prospect of a future euro crisis the chief executive had just had to decide whether to pull out of Italy.
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Wearable technologies will be entering mainstream use in four to five years in the classroom. The 2013 NMC/EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Horizon Report for Higher Education has identified some of the trailblazers that are already using wearable technologies in their classrooms.
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Aquaculture provides many products for food consumption like these sockeye salmon.
Jeffrey Silverstein, aquaculture program leader for the USDA, points out that 70 percent of the Earth is covered in water, yet only 1.5 percent of human food is drawn from it.
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Nanocapsules reduced the blood alcohol levels in the drunken mice.
Intoxicated mice were injected with a nanocapsule containing enzymes that are instrumental in alcohol metabolism. The nanocapsules reduced the blood alcohol levels in the mice. The treatment demonstrates a novel drug delivery technology that could have broad medical applications.
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Apple’s suppliers in Asia.
Apple released a list of its 748 suppliers last month. According to a new data visualization by ChinaFile, more than 600 of them are in Asia, and more than half of those are in China.
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A rendering of BiblioTech, a public library offering only electronic books that is scheduled to open in San Antonio.
The first fully digital public library in the U.S. will open in San Antonio, Texas this year. This library will not contain a single book. The facility in Bexar county is part of a planned state-wide bookless system called BiblioTech, is modeled on an Apple store rather than a traditional library, but it will retain all the important features: more than 100 e-readers available to borrow, with more than 10,000 ebooks – and visitors can bring their own devices, too.
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The self-repairing machine could keep mission-critical systems working.
Computer scientists have created a revolutionary new computer that can reprogram itself if it finds a fault. The computer mimics the randomness found in nature and can instantly recover from crashes by repairing corrupted data.
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