Last week, Ken Jennings, the player with the longest winning streak on Jeopardy, and Brad Rutter, the biggest all-time money winner on Jeopardy, played two exhibition matches against IBM’s artificial intelligence program Watson). If you haven’t seen the episodes yet, Watson won. Ken Jennings has written an interesting take on the experience: Just as factory […]
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Cattle Network: On April 17, 2012, the Vegas Strip Steak was unveiled exclusively as the “newest” beef steak at the Protein Innovation Summit in Chicago, Ill. “The Vegas Strip Steak is the latest and perhaps last steak to be found from the beef carcass,” said Jacob Nelson, Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center
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Squaw Valley Lake Tahoe, a ski resort on the California side of Lake Tahoe, has opened the world’s first ski-thru Starbucks. The new mountaintop Starbucks at 2,400 metres allows customers to grab a coffee without taking off their skis or snowboard. “We worked closely with the design team at Starbucks to create a one-of-a-kind experience
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David Alden is a Kickstarter success. He used to the website Kickstarter to fund his business and to take it from just an idea to tens of thousands of unit sales. Recoil, a plastic device similar to a fishing reel for wires, provides an easy solution to tidy up offices, entertainment centers or the ear
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Forbes: What if you had an exciting new business idea that applied disruptive new technology to a fast-growing consumer food market? What if you branded, packaged and tested your new product with a sampling of highly-influential customers in your target market, and the response was passionately enthusiastic? Nine out of ten entrepreneurs would run with
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PR Newswire: Thirteen years ago, mother of two Laura Kelly stood in the doorway of a kindergarten class and watched as a group of three-, four- and five-year-olds baked bread and hand-sewed little animals. Kelly was prospecting schools for her own children, and to a mother who was nervous about choosing the right one, “this
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KLEW: A new company has taken up residence in the Lewis-Clark Valley and they’re ready to bring adventure to the area with snow bikes. It seems the LC Valley is the perfect place for manufacturers to bring their creations to life. Which is why, Frozen Moto owner Dan Shanahan, brought his company and his Snow
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Chicago Business: Her three-year-old company, The Scrumptious Pantry, has seen sales increase fourfold in 2011. She won’t disclose dollar amounts, but she says revenue is up 50 percent so far this year compared with last year. Moving forward, it’s going to be tough to stand out on the increasingly crowded shelves of local — and
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It looks like a food truck, but instead of cooking up something that you can put into your mouth, they take a swab of your mouth and then cook up your DNA results. CBS New York has more: It is a sign of the times — getting a quick DNA test is now as easy
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FastCoExist: Today, much of the fuel that powers Brazil’s cars and trucks is grown as sugarcane. Now, the country is brewing a second source in tanks of algae. The world’s first industrial-scale biofuel plant, using waste from making their already popular biofuel (ethanol) to feed the production of another (algae), is scheduled to open in
