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A Young Bedouin Doctor Pioneering Genetic Testing In Israel's Negev Desert
Forbes - 10 Aug 2017 19:57
Dr. Yasmeen Abu Fraiha fled her Israeli Bedouin town in the Negev Desert when she was five in the dark of night for a nearby affluent Jewish suburb. Now she's back to help her community escape the problems of genetic dis...
And The Winner Is... Cortex
Nibletz - 10 Aug 2017 17:10
Cortex, A Startup Developing Mobile Apps For Cognitive Therapies, Wins Code Launch 5 In Frisco Texas Over 1000 people RSVP’d for CodeLaunch 5 a startup pitch contest from the participant in CodeLaunch’s accelerator p...
EDUCAUSE Preview: What's A Moodle? eThink Education Can Help!
Nibletz - 10 Aug 2017 15:50
eThink Education Is The Place For All Things Moodle Moodle is one of the most popular learning management systems in the world. According to the latest data from edutechnica.com, Moodle ranks third behind Blackboard Lear...
Microsoft's Windows 10 Pro for Workstations is aimed at power users
Venture Beat - 11 Aug 2017 01:45
If you thought Windows 10 had too many editions, Microsoft isn’t listening. The company today unveiled Windows 10 Pro for Workstations, a high-end edition of Windows 10 Pro with support for server grade PC hardware tha...
Nvidia CFO: Cryptocurrency is helping drive demand for graphics hardware
Venture Beat - 11 Aug 2017 01:18
Nvidia chief financial officer Colette Kress credited cryptocurrency mining as one of the new drivers for the company’s graphics chip sales. Nvidia also saw revenues rise from demand related to gaming, artificial intel...
Overwatch is adding Deathmatch modes
Venture Beat - 11 Aug 2017 01:08
Tired of all that teamwork in Overwatch? Then the new Deathmatch mode might be for you. Most of Overwatch revolves around two teams of six players going after objectives, like pushing a payload or capturing a zone. Death...
Blue Apron loses unicorn horn as stock tanks 17%
Venture Beat - 11 Aug 2017 00:56
If Blue Apron investors were hoping the worst had passed in the wake of its bumpy IPO, they weren’t prepared for its inaugural earnings report. Shares of Blue Apron closed down 17.6 percent at $5.14 a share Thursday af...
Investors see cryptocurrencies as safe haven amid U.S.-North Korea tensions
Venture Beat - 11 Aug 2017 00:53
GUEST: Perhaps the famous phrase "When the United States sneezes, the world catches a cold," is more appropriate now than ever before. The simmering tensions between the United States and North Korea this week have cause...
Nvidia earnings: Self-driving cars, AI, games, Nintendo Switch drive big quarter
Venture Beat - 11 Aug 2017 00:40
Nvidia keeps on raking in revenue from chips for artificial intelligence, game graphics, the Nintendo Switch game console, and self-driving cars. But we’ll have to listen to the conference call shortly to find out if c...
Microsoft ponders 'bigger, more bolder changes' to Xbox Achievements
Venture Beat - 10 Aug 2017 23:21
Microsoft invented the modern Achievements concept when the feature launched with the Xbox 360, and we’ve seen those little pop-up badges show up everywhere since. But now Microsoft is pondering some big changes to the...
Hey, Google, help me prep for the new school year
Venture Beat - 10 Aug 2017 23:10
My Google Home speaker is humming along just fine these days. And it has started serving a secondary purpose beyond providing weather forecasts and reminding me to buy some flowers for my wife on her birthday: My kids ar...
Back 2 School: School Specialty Can Be Your Complete Makerspace Solution
Nibletz - 10 Aug 2017 23:03
Trust School Specialty As Your Complete Maker Space Solution School Specialty is the largest supplier of everything education related in the U.S. They’ve been trusted for decades by teachers, administrators, schools an...
Fired Google Engineer James Damore's 'Media Tour' Not Likely To Help His Legal Case
Forbes - 10 Aug 2017 22:52
Since his firing from Google, engineer James Damore has been on something of a media tour, starting with figures popular among the alt-right, the fringe conservative movement that jumped to his defense this week.
Hearthstone: Knights of the Frozen Throne -- Blizzard shares insights on The Lower Citadel
Venture Beat - 10 Aug 2017 21:54
Hearthstone: Knights of the Frozen Throne has a lot of exciting new cards, but it also gives us our first single-player campaign since August 2016’s One Night in Karazhan. The first wing, The Lower Citadel, comes out w...
6 Ways To Simplify Your Life And Reach Your Goals Faster
Forbes - 10 Aug 2017 21:53
Getting rid of baggage means you can focus on what's important.
Hearthstone's Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion is live
Venture Beat - 10 Aug 2017 21:33
Move over, dinosaurs. Death Knights have come to Hearthstone. The digital card game giant’s Knights of the Frozen Throne expansion is now live on PC and mobile. Knights of the Frozen Throne adds 135 new cards, includin...
The Heartland is fertile for ag tech, but California is still king
Venture Beat - 10 Aug 2017 21:30
ANALYSIS: Last month, San Francisco-based indoor farming startup Plenty scored a win for the California ag tech scene when it secured a $200 million investment from SoftBank’s Vision Fund, one of the largest rounds eve...
Unity adds Max Levchin and Robynne Sisco to board as it readies for IPO
Venture Beat - 10 Aug 2017 20:15
Unity Technologies has named tech veterans Max Levchin and Robynne Sisco as the company’s first independent directors. Unity CEO John Riccitiello said the move is necessary if Unity is to prepare itself for an initial ...
Lyft acqui-hires DataScore and YesGraph to fuel customer and driver growth
Venture Beat - 10 Aug 2017 20:00
Lyft today announced the acqui-hire of startups DataScore and YesGraph to fuel its continued pace of growth and better serve drivers. About 25 people from both companies will join Lyft, a company spokesperson told Ventur...
Discord starts testing video chat and screen sharing with 5% of its gamers
Venture Beat - 10 Aug 2017 20:00
Discord has begun testing video chat and screen sharing — two of the most-requested features from its audience of free voice and text chat users — for about 5 percent of its users. That’s a big deal, as Discord has...
Austin Ventures leads $13 million investment in Vyze's multi-lender platform
Venture Beat - 10 Aug 2017 20:00
EXCLUSIVE: Vyze, which offers retailers a platform to connect with various lenders to increase credit approval, announced today funding of $13.1 million in a round led by Austin Ventures. New investor Fathom Capital and ...