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Harvard and MIT Form Online Partnership Called EdX
Harvard University and MIT have joined forces to provide courses on the Internet for free to anyone in the world. The joint venture is called edx and it is essentially building upon MIT’s existing online learning platform. Edx courses will include video lessons, online quizzes, and real-time feedback. Students that complete theses will receive certificates.
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Harvard Launches Startup Incubator i-lab
Harvard University has launched the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab), a start-up incubator designed for students. Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has been pushing for more innovation spaces in the east coast city.
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Winklevoss Twins Expected To Pay $13 Million To Facebook Settlement Lawyers
An appellate court in New York has decided not to hear any further arguments about why Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss should not have to pay $13 million to a law firm that helped them draft a settlement agreement with Facebook. The Winklevoss twins sued Facebook several years ago and eventually agreed to a $65 million settlement.
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Former Harvard President Larry Summers Calls The Winklevoss Twins “A**holes”
Larry Summers was the U.S. Secretary of Treasury under President Bill Clinton and served as the 27th President of Harvard University. Actor Douglas Urbanski played Summers in the hit movie “The Social Network. Those of you that have seen the movie will know that Summers dismissed Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss when they presented him with the case that Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg stole their idea. The real Larry Summers told his side of the story and he did not have kind words about the twins.
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Alan Dershowitz Defending Wikileaks For Twitter Subpoena
Wikileaks has hired Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz as an adviser about how to handle the Justice Department’s subpoena to retrieve personal information from Twitter. The Justice Department is aiming to collect private communication between Wikileaks founder Julian Assange and Wikileaks volunteers over the leaked cables case. This is interesting because at one point, Dershowitz agreed with Hilary Clinton that Wikileaks was a danger to the U.S. and international diplomacy. [TwitLonger]
Not On Our Watch, Google, Harvard, and The U.N. Watching Sudan For War Crimes Using Satellites
The United Nations, Harvard University, Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG), and Not On Our Watch is watching Sudan using satellites for war crimes. Known as The Satellite Sentinel Project, the collaborations between these organizations will provide an “early warning system” for human rights and security violations.
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Harvard Medical School Researchers Reversed Aging Process In Mice
Researchers at Harvard Medical School have been able to reverse the aging process in mice. The experimental treatment conducted on mice leads scientists to believe that it is possible to achieve similar feats on humans or slow down the aging process.
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Facebook Buys Out Drop.io
Facebook has acquired Drop.io, a New York based start-up company that lets users share files through a drag-and-drop interface. Drop.io founder Sam Lessin will be joining Facebook full-time.
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Mark Zuckerberg Talks About Dropping Out Of Harvard On The Simpsons [VIDEO]
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a cameo appearance on The Simpsons in animated form. In the cameo, Zuckerberg updated his Facebook status and pointed out to Lisa Simpson that he dropped out of Harvard. Lisa was trying to teach Nelson the importance of education.
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Postabon Raises $1 Million Led By Spark Capital
Postabon is a website and mobile service that uses geolocation to find local deals. Postabon has raised $1 million out of a $1.5 million funding round led by Spark Capital according to regulatory filings. Spark Capital’s Todd Dagres joined the Postabon board of directors as a result of the funding round. Postabon was started last year by Harvard University students Stu Wall, Shaneal Manek, and John Buchanan. [PEHub]