<div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The X PRIZE Foundation and Nokia today announced the launch of the Nokia Sensing X CHALLENGE, a $2.25 million global competition to stimulate the development of a new generation of health sensors and sensing technologies that can drastically improve the quality, accuracy and ease of monitoring a person's health. Improvements in these technologies will empower individuals to effortlessly monitor and collect their own real-time health data, providing both consumers and healthcare providers convenient access to critical information whenever and wherever they need it.</p> </div></div></div> 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>That was one of the key messages at the Wireless Life Sciences Alliance Convergence Summit being held this week in downtown San Diego. About 275 technology and healthcare officials attended the two-day event. They include X PRIZE Chief Executive Peter Diamandis and Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs, who are expected to talk today about the role of contests in encouraging innovation. Qualcomm is sponsoring a $10 million Tricorder X PRIZE competition.</p> </div></div></div> 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off with an unmanned Dragon capsule into dark skies above the the cape at 3:44 a.m. ET — three days after a last-second scrub kept it bolted to the launch pad even as the countdown clock ticked toward zero.</p> </div></div></div> 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>On May 19, if all goes well, the private spaceflight company SpaceX will launch the first commercial spaceship ever to visit the International Space Station. But the mission will be like no other U.S. flight to the orbiting laboratory.</p> </div></div></div> 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The success of the X Prize recently prompted Jain to bring innovation-based contests to his own business. Last year, Intelius held its first-annual "iPrize," a company-wide competition that invites staff to submit ideas for cost-saving measures and new products. </p> </div></div></div> 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>To find that innovative solution, Mr. Roth is working with a group of donors and dedicating $50,000 toward the first phase of a competition in partnership with the X Prize Foundation, an organization that manages prize competitions for various groups looking to solve large-scale problems.</p> </div></div></div> 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Last night at the annual Robin Hood Foundation gala dinner, its billionaire co-founder Paul Tudor Jones II announced a partnership with the X Prize Foundation to establish new challenges to help eradicate poverty in New York. </p> </div></div></div> 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>The total raised last night was $57.4 million, including $13 million pledged on electronic devices to Robin Hood and $19 million pledged on the same devices to a new initiative with the X Prize Foundation, which will offer prizes to find solutions to poverty in New York City and beyond. </p> </div></div></div> 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Whether this turns out to be true or not, Tesla Motors is now poised to build its first semi- affordable car, which puts it between steps one and two of Musk's master plan. By July, the company says it will begin delivering its new Model S sedan, a fully electric vehicle that's being manufactured at Tesla's new factory, in Fremont, California. </p> </div></div></div> 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>In the end, public votes crowned Capra the winner for his four-minute video compilation of time-lapse scenes he shot during a 17-day trip around Iceland.</p> </div></div></div> 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00 1969-12-31T16:00:00-08:00