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Sourcery raises $2.5 million to help kitchens source their food

Food companies, restaurants, caterers, and corporate kitchens have struggled to find and manage their suppliers in a digital way. Most are still using paper, the Yellow Pages, and telephone calls...

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IBM's solar sunflower generates clean energy and fresh water

This floral fabrication may look luxurious, but in fact it has a rather down-to-earth aim: to take renewable energy and warm water to remote, off-grid communities. The 10-meter structure is designed...

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Sony is killing off PlayStation Home on the PS3 in the US and Europe

You know that PlayStation Home feature on your PlayStation 3 that you never used? After years of little traction, Sony has announced that it’s closing the virtual world in the...

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Udacity has raised $35 million to expand its online education service

As debt-ridden, unemployed college graduates look to retool their skills, investors are betting that online vocational education has a big future. One of the household names in the online education...

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India has completed another test for its low-cost Mars mission

One particular indicator that a country is ready to move forward to the next level of technological advancement would be space travel and exploration, and while the US and Russia...

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SAP boosts its cloud portfolio with the acquisition of Concur

SAP is buying business-travel and expense software vendor Concur for about $8.3 billion, in a bid to continue growing out its portfolio of cloud-based applications. The move comes a couple...

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Famous Swiss watchmaker doesn't feel threatened by the Apple Watch

We’ve heard lots of Ballmer-esque comments rolling in from Swiss watch executives in the last week since Apple finally took the wraps off its hugely anticipated Apple Watch. Forbes has...

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Snapchat's owners have reached a settlement with its ousted co-founder

Snapchat cofounders Evan Spiegel and Robert Murphy have reached a settlement with former Stanford University colleague Frank Reginald “Reggie” Brown over an ownership dispute, admitting that Brown had originally come...

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Music piracy killed rock and roll according to Gene Simmons

Rock music is finally dead in the opinion of legendary Kiss member Gene Simmons — and online piracy is the culprit. In a new interview written by his son Nick,...

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Google's Calico is looking to put an end to age-related diseases

We get old. There’s no mystery to it. You’re born, you grow up, and then you pass on. But why, and how? And is that process somehow reversible? These are...

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