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Churches Are Using Facial Recognition to Track Members, This Startup Says
What happens when biometrics meet the Divine?
Your Uneaten Hotel Breakfast Is Now Feeding the Homeless
A Montreal-based site is connecting hotels and caterers with shelters so that uneaten banquet food won't be tossed into the trash.
Is Starting Your Own Country GOOD or BAD?
A Czech politician just created a new nation called Liberland. A good call? Motherboard debates.
Why Chile’s First Bitcoin Exchange Was Funded by the Government
Chile is giving Bitcoin a warm welcome.
That Time Sony’s CEO Wanted to Launch a Weed Tech Startup
“What do the tobacco companies do when they want to put a new additive in?”
This Food Bank Will Turn You Away If You Eat Meat
At Toronto's Vegetarian Food Bank, low-income vegetarians and vegans can get access to fresh produce and meat-free proteins.
A Hong Kong Startup Thinks Glowing Fish Embryos Could Improve Food Safety
China’s food safety record has been anything but stellar, but a Hong Kong-based startup sees hope in a food-testing technology, which uses fish embryos that turn fluorescent in the presence of toxins.
The Sports Startup Being Sued For Nearly $500,000 By Its Former Employees
Sport195 began as a wildly ambitious sports website startup, but its employees soon learned that the company was short on cash and long on lies.
Crowdfunding Is About to Go Bananas
The idea is to democratize capital, making investment more accessible to more people while also making fundraising easier for startups, which previously had to rely on clubby Silicon Valley connections to raise money.
How To Really Get Rich From Bitcoins
For now the tricks are still secret, but there's no secret on how to join the party.
Why New Startup Netflix Won't Fail, as Explained by Co-Founder Reed Hastings in 2001
The other time that arm-waving geeks filled San Francisco’s inordinate number of coffee shops and brainstormed en masse about how to solve the world’s problems with the internet.
Mirth Wants to Kill Groupon
“I'm sick of deals – The whole idea is to put an end to the madness of deals,” Jeremy Galen tells me, Marlboro 27 in hand. He says he used Groupon once to get a deal on a pair of jeans. When he got there he realized the store only sold women's clothing...