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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is joining decision-making engine Hunch's board of directors and will serve as an advisor to the startup. Hunch was recently launched by Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake as a platform to help users make decisions spanning a wide array of topics. To help users make their decisions, Hunch presents them with a brief series of questions that have been submitted by other ...
Image Caption: The woolly mammoth was one of the large mammals that became extinct in North America at the onset of the Younger Dryas approx. 13,000 years ago. Credit: Image of Woolly Mammoth at the Royal BC Museum, Victoria, British Columbia courtesy Wikipedia Commons
Image via Wikipedia MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota--People wishing to attend LifeScience Alley's annual convention Wednesday will first have to brave the season's first significant snow storm. It's a fitting metaphor. The medical device industry, long the backbone of Minnesota's high tech economy, faces perhaps its most challenging environment in decades. From regulatory headaches and health care reform ...
Google’s still feeling all announcey, with the addition of something called “living stories” to its repertoire of announcements over the past few days. The project looks like the Google News topic pages got drunk and shagged Wikipedia, and the result is a hybrid results page that condenses the hell out of results to give users an [...]
Image via Wikipedia ST. PAUL, Minnesota--Envoy Medical Corp. has raised $6.9 million from selling equity and debt, according to documents recently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Founded in 1996, the company, formerly known as St. Croix Medical Inc., is developing an implantable hearing device that it claims is superior to conventional microphone-based hearing aids. Dubbed the ...
Image via Wikipedia ARDEN HILLS, Minnesota--Transoma Medical Inc. has become the latest medical device start-up to shut its doors. The Arden Hills-based company, which was developing a device to remotely monitor the electrical activity of a patient's heart, could not raise additional money from investors, sources said. As a result, Transoma closed its human applications operations and will ...
This heat cold map signifies the total number of Wikis tied to each country. The designer learned there are literally more articles written about Antarctica and even Middle Earth than many countries...
Image via Wikipedia WILMETTE, Illinois -- A Northwestern University start-up has received a $2.5 million investment to commercialize technology that employs gold nanoparticles to help treat cardiovascular disease. AuraSense LLC, founded by nanotechnology superstar and Northwestern Professor Chad Mirkin , is developing a technology that uses gold nanoparticles to sweep cholesterol out of a ...
Ever tried creating a Wikipedia entry for yourself only to have it promptly deleted because you're not famous? Well, on Microsoft Research's beta EntityCube site, everyone is famous.
WikiReader puts almost all of the English-language Wikipedia in a small, portable package that doesn't require (or have) any kind of internet connection.
That won’t surprise you, my little cyberknight; my darling digital warrior. You are a practiced and gleeful member of the brethren of the Net. Even if you tend Luddite, the following terms are likely still familiar to you: e-mail, IM, Google, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia.
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Image via Wikipedia Highlights of the interesting and the important from the world of health care. Sweating 510k changes: In an interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune , a local lawyer and medical device expert expresses nervousness about possible changes to the FDA's 510k process. President Obama's appointee to head up the FDA has called the agency's device unit "troubled," so there's ...
Search Google for Ron Livingston , the man of Office Space (and Sex and the City) fame, and you’ll find IMDB links for information on his acting career. You’ll also come across a
A High Court judge has ordered the owners of the online encyclopedia to disclose the IP address of a registered user who blackmailed a woman and her child.
Image Caption: Illustration of what the eruption might have looked like from approximately 50 miles (80 km) above Pulau Simeulue. Courtesy Wikipedia
The ''Amagi'' class battlecruiser was a planned ...
