The Man Delivering COVID Vaccines to Poorer NationsCaption Growing up in central Illinois the son of a pager salesman and special education teacher, Jacob Becraft began interning at the local USDA research lab in high school. The Peoria site was famous. Without it, the Allies might never have won… Sep 29 20September 29, 2020Article at OZY
He’s Fighting QAnon With SunlightLyric Jain’s new app, Logically, is tracking fringe movements and fact-checking the news in real time. The U.K. native has already shown an ability to bust up misinformation in India. Can it work in 2020 America? It was the third weekend of August,… Sep 05 20September 05, 2020Article at OZY
A Power Couple With a $50M Venture Fund for the OverlookedCaption Candice Matthews Brackeen and Brian Brackeen have launched a first-of-its-kind $50 million venture fund for underrepresented founders in the Midwest. They want to capture a market inefficiency to find returns in an overlooked part of the… Aug 14 20August 14, 2020Article at OZY
Boomers Are the Future of AI and Virtual Reality, Not MillennialsWHY YOU SHOULD CARE Because Baby Boomers have more disposable income, and more at stake, when it comes to futuristic tech. Key takeaways: A growing number of firms are developing tech targeted specifically at older people — from speech recognition… May 24 20May 24, 2020Article at OZY
Where Tech Is Helping People Become Better NeighborsWHY YOU SHOULD CARE Because the new networking could mean sharing space — and friendship — with your neighbors. When Katie Gordon first moved to Napa Valley, the full-time nurse and single mom of twins felt alienated and alone. Desperate for… Nov 25 19November 25, 2019Article at OZY
How Nudge Tech Helped Halve One City's Overdose VictimsWHY YOU SHOULD CAREA nudge — provided by a cloud-based app — can go a long way when it comes to treating addiction patients.It wasn’t a flood or a tornado that caused the police chief of Huntington, West Virginia, to call the National Guard on a warm… Jul 02 19July 02, 2019Article at OZY
Paris, the Rising Hope for a European Silicon ValleyCaption WHY YOU SHOULD CARE The French, with their 35-hour workweek and café culture, might be poised to attract the next great tech talent. Rand Hindi has the quintessential tech guru genesis story. He started coding at age 10 and built a social… May 15 19May 15, 2019Article at OZY
The Tech Generation Rush Isn't to Major Cities. It's Away From ThemCaption Remember when Amazon led America on a mad rat race, promising to bring tens of thousands of high-paying jobs to one lucky city if it offered business-friendly bids with massive tax incentives and a promise to not disclose its plans to the… Mar 28 19March 28, 2019Article at OZY
He's Helping the Blind 'See' Their Work — and Become EngineersJosh Coffee is not blind, and he didn’t spend much time thinking about the challenges blind students face while he was growing up. In fact, as an engineering major at the University of Vermont in 2011, his second choice for a capstone project was… Nov 25 18November 25, 2018Article at OZY
A Testing Lab for Russian Robots Revs Up in UruguayCaption Caroline Cosse had a message for Russian ears. So the Uruguayan industries minister traveled to Moscow for the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum last year and made an offer: her country, as a testing lab, for Vladimir Putin’s… Jun 20 18June 20, 2018Article at OZY
How This Southern City Is Becoming a Mecca for StartupsWHY YOU SHOULD CARE Because an innovation triangle in Alabama could present fresh opportunities for entrepreneurs. The Innovation Depot, like the city it calls home, won’t astound outsiders in a passing glance. The business incubator in downtown… Jan 17 18January 17, 2018Article at OZY
The Ivy League Coach Leading the Charge on Player SafetyCaption Dartmouth football was in the pits. During the 2009 season, the team had gone 2 and 8. Pretty dreadful, except when compared to the year before, when it racked up 10 losses and zero wins — its first winless year ever, excluding a single-game… Oct 26 17October 26, 2017Article at OZY
Can Cloned Cows Cure Human Disease?Eddie Sullivan is returning to his laboratory roots in the sprawling Sanford research facility in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Now CEO of SAB Biotherapeutics, the man trained as a reproductive physiologist tours the pristine labs where his company… Aug 09 17August 09, 2017Article at OZY
The Future of Self-Driving Cars in America's HeartlandCaption WHY YOU SHOULD CARE If Wisconsinites can agree with Silicon Valley on self-driving cars, can’t everyone else? Near Elkhart Lake in rural Wisconsin, racecar drivers call the track the “National Park of Speed” for the hundreds of campsites… Apr 14 17April 14, 2017Article at OZY
The Battle for the Internet in Rural AmericaSo much of Blacksburg is made up of Virginia Tech. But drive 15 minutes in any direction and this emerging tech hub of a town gives way to rural, rolling plains of farmland. That geographic divide also marks a digital wall between internet haves and… Mar 02 17March 02, 2017Article at OZY
And Suddenly Everybody's a WeathermanLast spring in Japan, it was the annual agita over cherry blossoms. Since the little pink jerks can bloom and die in the span of a week, all the weather services, trying to help a fairly hefty tourism business, went on their usual race to predict… Aug 11 15August 11, 2015Article at OZY
