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That’s what Filipino-American Emeline Paat-Dahlstrom thinks about. Her group’s mission: to help use technology to impact a billion people in the next decade – and she thinks that can change the Philippines.

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The road to entrepreneurial success is littered with mistakes. However, in the case of fund manager-turned-entrepreneur Adarsh Radia, all that he touches is gold. Born into an entrepreneurial family in Kenya, Radia grew up seeing his father start and grow multiple businesses.

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The Laredo Development Foundation got a glimpse Tuesday into new technology aimed to save lives as well as learn about an organization whose goal is to address humanity’s grand challenges in their communities.

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A Brooklyn-based startup called Modern Meadow has raised $40 million to become a top source of leather for the world’s makers of fashion and accessories, luggage, sporting goods, upholstery and furniture.

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In seven months, Barack Obama will leave the White House as president of the United States. He’s going to need a job. In an interview with Bloomberg on June 13, he hinted at the possibility of joining entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Silicon Valley.

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Picture a restaurant future in which a T-1000 scrambles eggs in a frying pan hand while aJetson-esque robot waits tables out front, her sass-meter dialed to a Siri-torching 11. Then un-think that because that’s not how it’s going to be at all. As more and more restaurants implement automation, robotics, and human-replacing tech into their business models, the rough outline of our food’s future is emerging. And it definitely doesn’t involve Skynet (most likely).

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Elon Musk’s proposal for Tesla to buy SolarCity in an all-stock deal is being met with the usual moans of disbelief. Still, the central core of the complaints — that Musk is making an endless capital call on the markets to fund some futuristic idea of a solar utility giant — is essentially correct. And that’s good news. You can argue with his execution — or whether this combination with Tesla was the right way to do this — but the vision is big and bold and the technology is moving in his direction.

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The SingularityU The Netherlands Summit is aimed at bringing awareness about exponential technologies and their impact on business and policy.  To learn more, click here.

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The SingularityU NZ Summit brings the world’s top speakers and experts on exponentially accelerating technologies together with New Zealand’s and Australia’s leaders of today and tomorrow, giving us the knowledge and insight we need to compete — and win — in an exponentially changing world.  To learn more, click here.

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A conference about the radical impact of future technology featuring some of the world’s most forward-thinking experts is coming to Christchurch.

The SingularityU summit will have its first event in Australasia in Christchurch later this year.

The summit is attached to Singularity University, a Silicon Valley think-tank focussing on future technology, led by futurists Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis.

The group’s purpose is to find ways to apply exponential technology – artificial intelligence, robotics, and nanotechnology, for example – to solve global problems.

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Zinnov and Authentise announce a strategic partnership to help global companies through their digital manufacturing transitions across technologies such as 3D printing, IIoT and software automation.

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Most of the more than $100 million the venture arm of the World Bank’s International Finance Corp. will invest this fiscal year will go to the emerging markets, including tech hubs such as Nairobi, Kenya — dubbed the “Silicon Savannah”. But recently the IFC has also invested in Silicon Valley companies such as the cloud-based software company Ayla, the satellite company Planet Labs and the online education company Coursera.

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On behalf of the broader UN community, WFP and UNICEF facilitated the first Data Innovation Lab workshop at technology think tank Singularity University to harness the power of digital growth and the data revolution for sustainable development.  The data revolution is leading to an exponential increase in the volume and types of data available globally. For the UN, relevant, reliable and up-to-date data are critical to assess the effectiveness of programmes and to better understand the challenges facing the communities in which UNICEF and WFP and other UN agencies work.

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