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Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Transportation
Traffic: This 100-Year Failure Is Getting a Solution
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Transportation
Traffic: This 100-Year Failure Is Getting a Solution
These smart traffic lights are making transportation safer and more sustainable than ever before.
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These smart traffic lights are making transportation safer and more sustainable than ever before.
Sustainability
Digital Price Tags Auto-Discount Groceries to Avoid Food Waste
Sustainability
Digital Price Tags Auto-Discount Groceries to Avoid Food Waste
A startup called Wasteless uses dynamic pricing and electronic shelf labels to help minimize food waste at grocery stores.
A startup called Wasteless uses dynamic pricing and electronic shelf labels to help minimize food waste at grocery stores.
Art
Tattoo Shy? No Problem. These Tats Are Made to Fade
Art
Tattoo Shy? No Problem. These Tats Are Made to Fade
Ephemeral launched the first-ever made-to-fade tattoo ink, allowing people to get tattoos without committing to them for the rest of their lives.
Ephemeral launched the first-ever made-to-fade tattoo ink, allowing people to get tattoos without committing to them for the rest of their lives.
Aerospace
This Startup’s Goal Is To Be the “Henry Ford of Space”
Aerospace
This Startup’s Goal Is To Be the “Henry Ford of Space”
The startup Phantom Space is using other manufacturers’ parts to build its rockets, rather than developing them in-house like most space companies.
The startup Phantom Space is using other manufacturers’ parts to build its rockets, rather than developing them in-house like most space companies.
Employment
Video Game Reveals Your “Soft Skills” To Potential Employers
Employment
Video Game Reveals Your “Soft Skills” To Potential Employers
The Scoutible app reveals job candidates’ soft skills, which often don’t translate through resumes and interviews but are essential for success.
The Scoutible app reveals job candidates’ soft skills, which often don’t translate through resumes and interviews but are essential for success.
Music
“Saylists” Use Song Lyrics to Help Kids with Speech Disorders
Music
“Saylists” Use Song Lyrics to Help Kids with Speech Disorders
Apple Music’s new “Saylists” contain songs with lyrics designed to help kids overcome speech disorders in an entertaining way.
Apple Music’s new “Saylists” contain songs with lyrics designed to help kids overcome speech disorders in an entertaining way.
Social Entrepreneurs
Austin Is Facing Food Insecurity. This Student is on a Mission to Solve That.
Social Entrepreneurs
Austin Is Facing Food Insecurity. This Student is on a Mission to Solve That.
A med student thinks the key to reducing food insecurity is through transportation. He launched Good Apple, a healthy food delivery service for families in need.
A med student thinks the key to reducing food insecurity is through transportation. He launched Good Apple, a healthy food delivery service for families in need.
Entrepreneurship
Is Conscious Capitalism the Future of Business?
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Entrepreneurship
Is Conscious Capitalism the Future of Business?
For First United Bank, a commitment to Conscious Capitalism changed the way they do business, and it’s paying off.
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For First United Bank, a commitment to Conscious Capitalism changed the way they do business, and it’s paying off.
Future of Cities
Reclaiming City Spaces With “Tactical Urbanism”
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Future of Cities
Reclaiming City Spaces With “Tactical Urbanism”
From guerilla gardening to pop-up parks, tactical urbanism is catching the world by storm.
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From guerilla gardening to pop-up parks, tactical urbanism is catching the world by storm.
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Challengers
How VR Could Change Your Life
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Challengers
How VR Could Change Your Life
Virtual reality could alter the human experience forever.
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Imagine if you could climb Mount Everest and go on stage at a Beyonce concert with your friends...before breakfast. Linc Gasking and his team of visual effects experts at 8i thinks they can make holograms of humans so real, that VR will go mainstream and they’ll alter the human experience forever.
Challengers
Building a Better School System
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Challengers
Building a Better School System
A highly-personalized experience could be the foundation for the future of education.
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Everyone wants America’s education system to do better. Ex-Googler Max Ventilla has a radical idea for how to make it happen. Ventilla’s AltSchool is building a highly-personalized education experience that gets better and cheaper as more students use it.
Challengers
Powering the World With Nuclear
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Challengers
Powering the World With Nuclear
Transatomic believes they've figured out a safe, scalable, cost-effective way to power the world with nuclear.
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Transatomic is designing a nuclear reactor that can produce a lot more electricity than a conventional reactor, while creating a lot less nuclear waste. But they’ll need to take on a deeply entrenched industry and convince a cautious public that they can safely harness the most powerful energy in the world.
Innovation
The Edible Six Pack Ring That's Saving Marine Animals
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Innovation
The Edible Six Pack Ring That's Saving Marine Animals
18 billion pounds of plastic are dumped in the ocean every year. This microbrewery created biodegradable six pack rings to help stem the tide.
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Saltwater Brewery was a regular microbrewery that made great craft beer - packaged with the usual plastic six pack rings. As fishermen who saw firsthand the amount of plastic pollution in the ocean, though, they felt they needed to make a change to help marine animals. They came up with the idea to create edible six pack rings made of biodegradable materials left over from the brewing process. Now, they’ve created a new...
Building Community
How San Francisco Residents Saved Local Businesses
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Building Community
How San Francisco Residents Saved Local Businesses
An indie book store went from struggling to thriving with a new business model. Is it the future of retail?
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Borderlands Books is the largest English-language sci-fi, mystery, and horror book store in the world. Mission: Comics and Art is a combination comic book shop and art gallery. Both were preparing to close up shop in a tough retail environment as costs rose. Alan Beatts called a community meeting of his customers. A new idea came out of it - selling store memberships. After an outpouring of support, he sold hundreds of...
Made With Intel
Saving Lives with AI
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Made With Intel
Saving Lives with AI
Artificial intelligence can find hidden patterns in patient’s vital signs - and stop emergencies before they happen.
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As hospitals collect more and more data, analyzing it is a challenge and an opportunity. Montefiore Medical Center of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine is a case study in how using artificial intelligence in hospitals can help improve outcomes. They’re working with Intel’s Healthcare AI team to develop machine learning algorithms that can see patterns within it. The result, which they call the Patient Centered...
Education
Teaching Engineering with Dirt Bikes
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Education
Teaching Engineering with Dirt Bikes
This teacher is using dirt bikes to help Baltimore's kids learn STEM.
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Baltimore’s kids are obsessed with dirt bikes. Some people think that's a problem, but teacher Brittany Young is using dirt bikes to get kids into engineering and STEM education. Her organization, B-360 Baltimore, aims to use dirt bike culture to help end the cycle of poverty, disrupt the prison pipeline, and bring together communities — while giving dirt bikes a better reputation. Dirt bikes are a controversial issue in...
Making a Difference
Can People with Autism Help Create Next-Generation AI?
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Making a Difference
Can People with Autism Help Create Next-Generation AI?
Daivergent is a new startup that hires people with autism to train artificial intelligence - and helps them start independent careers.
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Meet Bryan Dai, the founder of Daivergent--a startup that hires people with autism to train artificial intelligence and helps them start independent careers. His journey began when his mother passed away, and he knew that he would be responsible for helping support his brother with autism. After people with autism turn 21, they often encounter the “support cliff,” after which they stop receiving many forms of government...
Challengers
An App for Global Trade
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Challengers
An App for Global Trade
Flexport thinks bringing trade into the 21st century could improve lives around the globe.
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Flexport believes that nothing helps people improve their lives more than the ability to trade with one another. And, yet international shipping is still way too cumbersome. So Flexport built an in app to make it easier. If Flexport succeeds, nearly everything you buy will cost less.