Biotech teams are gearing up for a $101M competition to boost healthy lifespan Some of the biggest names in longevity research — and at least one Seattle biotech startup — say they’ll enter… Read More
12 years after her trip to space, Anousheh Ansari takes over as the CEO of XPRIZE In 2004, Iranian-American entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari helped fund the $10 million Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight. In 2006, she… Read More
XPRIZE confirms no one will win Google’s millions for commercial moon landing The organizers for the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize competition acknowledged today that the award for a commercially funded… Read More
Book recounts how billionaires Paul Allen and Jeff Bezos helped start a space race Commercial spaceflight seems to be hitting its stride right about now, thanks in part to the launch programs funded by… Read More
IBM Watson AI XPRIZE offers $5M for projects that link humans and computers – but who’ll sign up? The latest multimillion-dollar tech challenge – known as the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE – will be aimed at encouraging collaboration… Read More
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:… Read More
