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• 3D-Printed Sugar Sculptures Too Sweet to Eat
  You’ve heard of 3D-printed clothes and 3D-printed buildings, but 3D-printed food? We are truly entering sci-fi territory. The Sugar Lab takes simple white sugar as its base material to print delicate 3D structures that can be eaten on their own, or used as a decorative topper for cakes and cupcakes The company, founded by married couple Kyle and Liz, started […]
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• Teen Develops Computer Algorthim to Diagnose Leukemia
  Brittany Wenger isn't your average high-school senior: She taught the computer how to diagnose leukemia. The 18-year-old student from Sarasota, Fla. built a custom, cloud-based "artificial neural network" to find patterns in genetic expression profiles to diagnose patients with an aggressive form of cancer called mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL). […]
  Vignesh Ramachandran
• Teach Your Kids Tech Basics With Electronic Building Blocks
  For parents looking for educational toys, a hardware startup developed electronic buildings blocks and a companion augmented reality app that make for an interactive learning experience. Founded by Tarun Pondicherry and Josh Chan, LightUp magnetic building blocks that can teach anyone about how electronics work. The interactive blocks are different electroni […]
  Vignesh Ramachandran
• Bieber to Booing Crowd: 'I Think I'm Doing a Pretty Good Job'
  Justin Bieber won two awards at Sunday night's Billboard Music Awards, and the audience had mixed emotions about his speech "I'm 19 years old, I think I'm doing a pretty good job [...] it should really be about the music. It should be about the craft, the craft that I'm making," Bieber said. "I'm an artist that should […]
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• GoPro Captures How it Looks to Be Eaten By a Grizzly Bear
  Welp, this is about as up close and personal as you'll ever get to a grizzly bear's mouth without being eaten alive or requiring some pretty major surgery The incredible clip embedded above comes from the GoPro camera of Alaskan naturalist Brad Josephs. While he was leading a wildlife-viewing trip, a mother bear and her three-year-old cub came acro […]
  Sam Laird
• Where Would the World Be Without YouTube?
  YouTube recently celebrated its eighth birthday, reminding us that less than a decade ago we had no access to cute cat videos, screaming goat clips and viral trends such as the Harlem Shake How, oh how, did we ever survive? For YouTube's Comedy Week, the Gregory Brothers pay homage to all the addictive content that the video-sharing website has given us […]
  Neha Prakash
• Terrifying Eyewitness Videos of Oklahoma Tornado Go Viral
  Several eyewitness videos of the massive tornado that devastated Oklahoma City suburbs Monday — killing at least 51 people — have gone viral online. SEE ALSO: CBS Delays 'Mike & Molly' Finale in Wake of Oklahoma Tornado They each portray the cyclone tearing across Moore, Okla., near Oklahoma City, and kicking up debris. The half-mile-wide torna […]
  Anita Li