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Sacramento Kings will host a startup pitch contest during an NBA game
Startup pitch contests happen all over the world at a variety of locations, but an NBA arena usually isn’t the first place you think of as a place where entrepreneurs tout their business ideas.
But the Sacramento Kings are breaking new...
This crazy rotating hoverboard dunk stunned fans at the NBA Dunk Contest
Hoverboards made an appearance at the NBA Dunk Contest on Saturday night in pretty spectacular fashion. At the league’s annual competition that features top dunkers showing off their freakish athleticism, Orlando Magic forward Aaron Gordon utilized a hoverboard to throw down one of the night’s most impressive jams....
MIT leads in first round of Elon Musk’s Hyperloop contest, but UW is still in the race
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology won the top rating in the design phase of a SpaceX-sponsored contest to develop levitating cars for a Hyperloop rapid-transit test track. More than 20 other teams, including a student group from the University of Washington, were also...
More than 120 teams picked for SpaceX founder Elon Musk’s Hyperloop contest
More than 120 student engineering teams, including a group from the University of Washington, have been chosen for a Hyperloop pod design competition backed by billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Tesla Motors. Experts at SpaceX selected the teams from hundreds of entries to take part...
XPRIZE unveils $7 million contest for ocean discovery, with bonus for sniffing out pollution
The latest high-tech competition from XPRIZE is offering $ 7 million to promote new ways to map our planet’s final frontier: the depths of the ocean. “Our oceans cover two-thirds of our planet’s surface and are a crucial global source of...
Pogo wins $1M in Verizon contest with an app to help parents coordinate carpools
Seattle-based Pogo got a $ 1 million boost this week after winning a top prize in Verizon’s Powerful Answers Award contest. The startup is building an app that uses technology to help parents build better...
Vulcan and USDOT unveil $50 million Smart City transportation contest
The U.S. Department of Transportation and billionaire philanthropist Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc. are offering $ 50 million to midsize cities, including Seattle, in a “Smart City” competition to promote next-generation transportation systems. “Our national vision for transportation is still very much constrained by 20th-century thinking about technology,” Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx told reporters today during a...