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Human Space Travel as a Platform to Accelerate Biomedical Innovation

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The most pressing risk identified by NASA is radiation exposure. Instead of stunting our spirit of exploration, there is an urgent need to develop effective radioprotection strategies to send humans to Mars on the order of decades, and not centuries. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Napster, Super Hi-Fi In Personalized Music Deal

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Online music streaming service Napster (now owned by Rhapsody International), and Los Angeles-based audio technology developer Super Hi-Fi announced this morning that the two have entered into a partnership, where the two will work together on personalized and branded music. Financial details of the partnership deal were not announced.

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A Research Team Plans to Merge AI with Human Brain Cells

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Associate Professor Adeel Razi, who is leading the group, says that the project “merges the fields of artificial intelligence and synthetic biology to create programmable biological computing platforms” He predicts that the capabilities of this new technology “may eventually surpass the performance of existing, purely silicon-based hardware.”

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GreatCall Acquires Lively

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San Diego-based phone service provider GreatCall , which focuses its phone service on older senior adults, has acquired the assets of a developer of a wearable device to help monitor that same customer base. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. READ MORE>>.

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Tongal Names Chief Marketing Officer

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She has also served at The Associated Press and Massive Incorporated. Tongal offers up an online platform which helps brands, studios, and creators develop video content, including advertising and short films; the company says that it now has powered more than 1,000 campaigns.

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Reflections On 2017: Anna Barber, Techstars LA

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The first, the distributed platform that supports smart contracts, which as a technology has great disruptive potential across many industries but is still early. In 2006 she sat next to a woman on an airplane who became her business partner in her next startup, Scribble Press. Find her @annawbarber.

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Verve Wireless Raises $7M For Mobile News Apps

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San Diego-based Verve Wireless , the developer of mobile publishing tools for the Associated Press, McClatchy, Belo Interactive, and other publishers, said this morning that it has raised $7M more in additional funding. The round was led by BlueRun Ventures, and also included prior investors The Associated Press and others.

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