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DARPA wants help coming up with new Grand Challenges to expand the abilities of humans. So we made them a...
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A brand-new challenge from InnoCentive has a massive payday–a whopping $160,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department...
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Can you come up with a way to follow discarded gadgets?
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Scott Aaronson, a scientist at MIT who works mostly with theoretical quantum computers, issued a challenge to all of those...
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