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SA losing to Kenya in tech race
South Africa appears to be losing its status as the preferred investment destination on the continent for international technology companies. By Duncan McLeod. Read More »
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Smart Notebooks For Linking Virtual Teams Across The Net
Kickstarter project promotes open-source, standards-based collaboration tool Read More »
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SmartThings Connects Physical Objects To The Internet, That Can Be Monitored Via Apps (video)
A new open source platform called SmartThings has started its journey on the Kickstarter website, and has been designed to help you created and connect physical objects to the Internet and smartphone applications. Read More »
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Social Medicine 2.0—Can You Use Crowdsourcing to Give Your Medical Device a Leg Up?
Online crowdsourcing communities are a game changer. These platforms allow anyone to appeal to the entire connected world for support or participation. They get many of us to participate—Kickstarter processed just shy of $500 million dollars in 2014. Most interesting, at least to me, are platforms for crowdsourcing information. These make up the next generation of online forums, ranging from chat forums to open source hardware development...
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South Africa losing to Kenya in tech race
South Africa appears to be losing its status as the preferred investment destination on the continent for international technology companies. That honour, increasingly, is going to Kenya, which may be on the cusp of a technology-fuelled era of economic growth. Read More »
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Spark Labs Raises $4.9M To Help Engineers Make Their Devices Smart
A San Francisco startup called Spark Labs Inc. (also known as Spark.io or Spark) has raised $4.2 million in new venture funding to help “makers,” from novices to experienced engineers, create smart devices using open-source technology...
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Steve Wozniak Just Backed A DIY Computer On Kickstarter—And So Have 12,000 Others
The creators of Kano, a kit to assemble your own mini-computer, asked for $100,000 on Kickstarter. One day short of the end of the company’s campaign, they’ve raised $1.35 million from nearly 12,000 backers including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler. [...] Read More »
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Strapped For Funding, Medical Researchers Pitch To The Crowd
In April, Dyer turned to Medstartr, one of several new crowd-funding websites tailored for scientific research and the healthcare sector. Medstartr, which debuted online in July, focuses on helping biomedical start-ups solicit small donations from everyday citizens. Meanwhile, Petridish, which came online 6 March, and iAMscientist, on 31 July, are helping scientists affiliated with academic or nonprofit institutions raise money for their research.
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The Biohackers Will See You Now
The next generation of DIYBio tools are coming, and this time they mean business...
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The Health Benefits Of Wearable Technology
...[T]his year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas revealed, a diverse and dizzying array of wearable devices that record and monitor every aspect of our health (and our dogs) are now on offer. Will wearable tech be relegated to the domain of gadget enthusiasts or could these budding fashion statements soon become part of our day-to-day lives?...
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The Inside Story Of The Open Source PC, And How It Could Stop You Being A Slave To Your Hardware
Hardware engineer Andrew 'bunnie' Huang on how his path to building an open source computer started with a childhood fascination with the Apple II and why we need to rediscover open hardware...
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The Risks And Perils Of Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding could revolutionize fundraising for early-stage biotech companies, but beware of the pitfalls. Read More »
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This Device Could Solve One Of The Biggest Problems Facing Wearable Tech
Today, headphones are typically used to temporarily shut out your surroundings. In the near future, however, devices such as the Dash smart earphones could be used to enhance the world around you by providing supplemental information about the people you meet and the places you visit — without looking obnoxious...
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This Scientist Is Using Open Sourced Software Techniques To Turn Bugs Into Patent-Free Drugs
Chemist and “semi-recreational” codemonkey Isaac Yonemoto is running a crowdfunding campaign called Project Marilyn to create open sourced, patent-free cancer drugs. Yonemoto proposes a $75,000 stretch goal to fund an experiment he hopes will prove we can use a compound sequenced from microscopic bug cultures to treat cancer...
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Transparent Civic Improvement With Crowdfunding Platform Neighbor.ly
There are two processes in the public sphere that we all depend on but that few of us really understand. And what's worse is that both are in trouble.
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