A two-year-old girl born with a hole in her heart had a life-saving operation in London last month thanks to a 3D printer. Perhaps equally astounding is that she’s not the… Read more »
John Cullinane, who co-founded what many characterize as the industry’s first standalone software startup back in 1968 near Boston, thinks the city could do itself a favor in attracting corporate headquarters… Read more »
Scratch is a programming language built to help children learn basic programming skills. But now edX, the MOOC (for Massive Open Online Course) backed by top colleges including MIT, Harvard and Caltech,… Read more »
Elizabeth Holmes, the 30-year-old founder of the blood-test company Theranos who dropped out of Stanford at 20 because classes were getting in the way of her work, recently told the New… Read more »
The greater Boston-Cambridge area has no problem attracting bright young people from all over the world to its colleges and universities. But it has well-documented issues keeping the best-and-brightest local when they… Read more »
Amazon definitely wants enterprises to adopt its cloud, but it’s still wooing little startups too. This week, it said it will issue $1,000 in Amazon Web Services credit to any student who completes qualifying… Read more »
There’s never a shortage of big problems confronting the world — think the looming scarcity of fuel, food and water. Addressing such issues is the purported goal of HUBweek, a series of events… Read more »
Xfund, founded three years ago as the Experiment Fund by four VC firms to fund young startups, now has $100 million in fresh capital from its current limited partners. And co-founder Patrick… Read more »
If you doubt that Linux is the king of operating systems, check this out: 300,000 students signed up for a new edX class on Linux in August. Read more »