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Yelp and GoFundMe team up to promote local business fundraisers
Following the announcement that it’s committing $25 million in waived fees and free services to support local businesses affected by the…
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Snopes rolls its own crowdfunding infrastructure to prepare for 2020’s disinformation warfare
2020 will likely be one of the most bitter and hard-fought elections in decades, not just on pulpits and stages,…
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HyperSciences raises an untraditional $9.6M for its hypersonic drilling vision
We profiled HyperSciences in February, when the team had just successfully completed a launch milestone for a small business grant…
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Crowdfunded developer of space sim Star Citizen takes on $46M in funding at nearly $500M valuation
The story of the game Star Citizen and Cloud Imperium, the company developing it, is almost too ludicrous to believe:…
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A runaway GoFundMe campaign to build Trumps’ border wall raises questions about its funding — and the future
Florida men are seemingly involved in so many strange happenings involving pythons, alligators and restaurant break-ins that when a parody “Florida Man”…
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Teaching STEM through the wonders of larva harvesting
There’s hardly enough room to turn around in Livin Farms’ office. Pretty standard, really, in Central, Hong Kong, where space…
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Make your own phone with MakerPhone (some soldering required)
There’s no shortage of interesting electronics kits out there to occupy an idle Sunday, but with this one you get…
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