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GlobalHack To Award More Than $1 Million Annually And Host World-Class Hackathons In St. Louis

Today, the newly launched GlobalHack (GlobalHack.org) announced plans to host quarterly hackathon competitions – along with an annual global technology conference – in St. Louis where the organization will award.

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City Of Houston’s Open Innovation Hackathon

HOUSTON, TEXAS — Something revolutionary happened this weekend: the City of Houston stopped complaining about their problems. From traffic, parking and bike transportation issues to regulations and confusing online databases,.

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Control A Cockroach’s Brain With A Tweet Thanks To Chicago Artist

Chicago artist Brittany Ransom has hacked the control circuit on a bionic cockroach to crowdsource the insect’s movement via Twitter.

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Aetna Taps FoodEssentials To Unlock Food Label Data For Developers

St. Louis-based FoodEssentials is the latest in the series of Health 2.0 companies to partner with Aetna’s CarePass Developer Portal. FoodEssentials’ Label API joins the Rewards API by EarnedIt and Medical Search by Healthline among other health and wellness APIs to form a platform that apps like iTriage, MapMyFitness, Thryve, FatSecret, Gympact, Strava, and RunKeeper have all integrated with.

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Crowdfunding Service Unglue.it Brings Books to the Masses

The founder of Gluejar, a New Jersey-based startup, is promoting a rigorous campaign to “unglue” or “make a digital book free to read and use worldwide,” thus eliminating cost barriers still felt in many poor communities.

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Etsy For Electronics: Marketplace For Gadget Tinkerers Tindie Moves From Side Project To Company

While Kickstarter may be the place to raise money for a massive hardware project, Tindie is the marketplace for homemade gadgets, kits, & parts.

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Former FBI Most Wanted Hacker Teams Up With Top IT Security Expert To Fight Cyber Theft

Eastern European cyber crime is so pervasive that even luxury car dealers have sprung up in the impoverished country of Romania to service newly rich hackers.

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Meteor Secures $11.2 Million Led By Andreessen Horowitz

This week, Andreessen Horowitz led an impressive round of funding that garnered $11.2 million for Meteor.

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At Maker Camp, Kids Stay Home And Attend Online With Google+

An online summer camp by MAKE Magazine sounds like a blast – especially the Coke and Mentos part – but the social aspect still rings a little hollow.

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Anonymous Targets Child Porn In #OpPedoChat

Anonymous says it’s mounting a coordinated attack on sites that deal in or facilitate exchanges of child pornography.

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