Tag Archives: X Prize

Scanadu Raises $2M For Medical Tricorder (video)

Star Trek fans rejoice, the Tricorder is here. Medical tech startup Scanadu has created a scanner that appears to have [...]

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How Was the Billionaire’s Singularity Dinner? We’ll Show You

Five minutes is not enough time to save the world, but it might be enough time to get people to [...]

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Kurzweil Discusses the Future of Brain Computer Interfaces (Video)

Offering money as a prize for scientific endeavors has a long history of success. That’s how we got a clock [...]

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Igniting a Brain-Computer Interface Revolution – BCI X PRIZE

This is a guest post written by entrepreneur, Singularity University alumnus and teaching fellow Rod Furlan. He is an independent [...]

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Archon X Prize Offers $10 million to Revolutionize Gene Sequencing

Many people have heard of the original X Prize, which was a $10 million prize given to the first company [...]

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