Kaplan and Pearson have unveiled their new startup programs.
When it comes to picking an accelerator or incubator programs, ed-tech entrepreneurs will be spoiled by the choices.
Father of the drone continues to pioneer airborne innovations
Abe Karem, father of the drone.
Abe Karem, the aerospace engineer behind America’s most successful and most feared military drone said, “I was not the guy who put missiles on the Predator. I just wanted UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) to perform to the same standards of safety, reliability and performance as manned aircraft.”
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Providers of free online higher education add more schools, including foreign schools
Coursera adds 29 universities and institutes to their online venture.
Providers of free online higher education are expanding the ranks of universities that contribute courses to their Web sites. They are also adding many schools from outside the United States.
A DIY bioprinter that can print living cells
A DIY bioprinter
3D printers have been used to print iPhone cases, gun parts, even chocolate candies. Now biohackers, a group that meets at BioCurious, a community biology laboratory in Sunnyvale, California, has created a do-it-yourself inkjet printer that can print living cells. (Video)
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A college degree is the new high school diploma
An increasing number of companies are requiring college degrees.
It used to take just a high school diploma to get a low level job like a file clerk. Today, it takes a college degree: the new minimum requirement for getting even the lowest-level job.
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Silicon Valley entrepreneurs announce Breakthrough Prize
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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The mobile payment race, who will win?
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.
The internet’s 19 degrees of separation
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.
Top 7 ways to make money from apps without ads
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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Chinese army tied to cyber attacks against U.S.
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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Things big data can’t do
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.
Happy Birthday! The futurist movement turns 104
The futurist … Filippo Tommaso Marinetti.
Don’t forget to wish any futurists you see today a happy anniversary. February 20th is the movement’s birthday. On this date in 1909 Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, an Italian poet, technophile, and promoter of the arts, had his The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism published on the front page of Le Figaro.
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