Can Big Data cure cancer?
A tale of two twenty-something computer whizzes, a mountain of money from Google, and one of the oldest, most vexing problems of all time.

July 25, 2014 at 11:36PM
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Google’s New Moonshot Project: the Human Body
Called Baseline Study, the project will collect anonymous genetic and molecular information from 175 people — and later thousands more — to create what the company hopes will be the fullest picture of what a healthy human being should be.

July 25, 2014 at 2:17PM
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Congress Has Passed A Bill Making Phone Unlocking Legal In The U.S.
Consumers in the U.S. should soon be able to legally unlock their phones for use on other wireless networks. The House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill this afternoon legalizing cell phone unlocking, following the lead of the U.S. Senate earlier this summer.

July 25, 2014 at 2:17PM
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Facebook Is Now Worth More Than Coca-Cola, Disney, Intel
Facebook’s remarkable share price surge over the last year has pushed its valuation — more than $192 billion as of yesterday — above some of the most venerable names in corporate America.

July 25, 2014 at 8:30AM
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Colbert Interviews Elon Musk
Colbert seems so genuinely excited that he more or less drops his character in favor of full-on gushing.

July 25, 2014 at 8:29AM
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Model drone finds elderly man, missing for three days, alive
It took just 20 minutes for a model drone to locate a missing elderly Wisconsin man, a feat that helicopters, search dogs, and volunteers couldn’t accomplish in three days.

July 25, 2014 at 6:26AM
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