OceanFishing/Getty Images Dinah Bazer was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the spring of 2010. The Brooklyn resident, an ice-skating teacher and former bank IT programmer in her 60s, was devastated. Luckily, doctors were able to successfully treat her disease with…
Skye Gould/Business Insider A little over a year ago, a good friend of mine casually mentioned over sushi that he can’t wait to have magnets installed in his fingertips. He said he wants to pick up silverware just by touching…
Perhaps you recently watched 10-year-old Jack Bonneau, from Broomfield, Colorado, on ABC-TV’s Shark Tank, show pitching his lemonade stand and marketplace business and picking up a $50,000 low-interest loan from billionaire venture capitalist Chris Sacca. Related: 5 Ways to Teach Your Children…
Google is launching a new tool that will help companies build custom business apps that run on Google’s cloud platform. Called App Maker, the tool promises to let businesses build simple cloud apps in a couple of days using a drag-and-drop…
A German Lunar X-Prize team has announced its intentions to send two mobile probes to the Moon to inspect the lunar rover left behind by the Apollo 17 mission. Finally, something that’ll get the Moon landing conspiracy nutters to shut…
Big tech companies have been creating accelerators left and right to evangelize their brands and get developers engaged with APIs and other open source efforts. Today, Amazon joined the crowd by announcing a new program for startups developing conversational AI. This…
We love almost everything about Nintendo’s adorable NES Classic Edition, but there’s still one major downside. There’s no way around it: Those short controller cables are a major buzzkill. Unsurprisingly, third-party companies are stepping up to solve the problem —…
We’ve got machine learning systems captioning images, synthesizing speech, and translating between languages, but it seems we’ve been neglecting their cultural development. Would you believe the future rulers of this planet are largely ignorant of classical music altogether? It’s bad…
Scientists from the National Ocean and Atmosphere ic Association (NOAA) have found an organism that they can’t explain. The moss-like thing was found more than 1,700 feet underwater. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook from SAI via IFTTT
GIF Image: Jeff Harris The chat app Slack boasts more than 4 million daily active users, but I bet this guy is the only one using it from his Commodore 64. Software engineer Jeff Harris managed to write a Slack…