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Every year, TIME highlights inventions that are making the world better, smarter and even a bit more fun. (See last year’s list here.) To assemble its 2020 list, TIME solicited nominations both from its editors and correspondents around the world, and through an online application process. They then evaluated each contender on key factors, including originality, creativity, effectiveness, ambition and impact (read more about it here).
The result: 100 groundbreaking inventions—including a smarter beehive, a greener tube of toothpaste, and technology that could catalyze a COVID-19 vaccine—that are changing the way we live, work, play and think about what’s possible.
See the full list here!
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Wealthy women donate billions each year. They should also invest in female founders / via Fast Company
New micro financing VC fund for black women in tech launches / via Venture Burn
Cocoon Capital launches the 3rd Edition of Female Founders Mentoring Hours / via Cocoon Capital
Spotlight on 20 kickass female founders in Spain / via EU-Startups
Astounding 3D-printed human heart model cuts and sutures like the real thing / via CNet
Amazon Expands Push Into Health Care With Online Pharmacy / via Bloomberg
Medtech Nation: How Israel Is Changing the Face of Medical Procedures / via Entrepreneur
When AI Sees a Man, It Thinks 'Official.' A Woman? 'Smile' / via Wired
You can't eliminate bias from machine learning, but you can pick your bias / via Venture Beat
Women In AI To Watch / via Forbes
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