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Hacking Homelessness at Business Rocks

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Mark Aldrich

What do you get when you combine a hundred hackers with a bunch of business billionaires? Just maybe a solution for global homelessness!

Manchester, UK, April 15, 2016: At 9:00 a.m. on April 21, the Business Rocks conference in Manchester will welcome the 48-hour Hackathon for Homelessness, bringing together hackers from around the globe, billionaire business leaders, and international activists to collaborate on producing a technological solution for the growing problem of global homelessness.
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More Ideas, Please

Posted on March 22, 2016 by Mark Aldrich

“What we feared, has happened.”—Charles Michel, Belgian Prime Minister

Two explosions in Zaventem international airport and a third one in the Maelbeek metro station killed at least 31 people earlier today in Brussels, Belgium. At least 100 people were injured in the blasts.
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Today in History, March 1

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Mark Aldrich

Super-soldier Steve Rogers and his vibranium shield were introduced by Marvel Comics in “Captain America Comics #1,” published 75 years ago today.

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Six Companies, Inc., the consortium of construction businesses that built Hoover Dam, formally handed control of the dam to the federal government 80 years ago today. President Frankin D. Roosevelt attended the dedication in September 1935, but it took months to work out the agreement over the control of the massive construction.
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