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The UK is starting to see a number of startup incubation, mentoring and investment programmes springing up –SpringboardandSeedcampto name but a couple. And word is out that Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is leading the jury for a new startup funding event kicking-off in London this December. Tech Entrepreneurs Weekis running from 5-9 December and it aims to bring hundreds of tech entrepreneurs together to be given the chance to impress Jimmy and his fellow judges with their enterprise ideas....

If you’re a regular visitor to Wikipedia, you may have seen a desperate plea pop up on the site, urging users for donations to keep the encyclopedia online. The impassioned pitch for cash gives the impression that the site is struggling to stay afloat. But the reality is very different, as freelance journalist Andreas Kolbe elucidatedin the Daily Dotlast week. In an eye-opening piece, Kolbe explains that the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), which owns Wikipedia, is actually richer than ever before....

Call Jimmy Wales an idealist, if you’d like. The very thought that humanity would come together and writean accurate encyclopediaon just about any subject you could think of takes more than a bit of idealism. But it is that same idealism that is now placing Wales at odds against Julian Assange and some current news about Wikileaks. In case you’ve not heard, The Guardian hascome under fireof late for one of its authors releasing a password that enabled decryption of a trove of unredacted cables....

Growing up, a vast swath of my generation first learned of Augmented Reality via Arnold Schwarzenegger’s landmark performance as The Terminator. Series 800 had seemingly magical abilities as it scanned a landscape and could pinpoint the fastest route to it’s prey. While some former science fiction has never seen the light of day, thankfully, Augmented Reality technologies are making a major impact on how we view the world today. As luck or happenstance would have it, Schwarzenegger hails from the south of Austria, while just to the northwest (Salzburg), Austrian companyWikitudeis leading the charge on today’s Augmented Reality front....

The prevailing theory on the origin of our universe goes like this: about 13.7 billion years ago a single particle exploded. The resultant blast created an ever-expanding universe that, eventually, became home to the planet we call Earth. The Big Bang theory first appeared in a scientific paper in 1931. Physicist Georges Lemaitre is credited with its creation. And the bulk of our assumptions about the universe and its rate of expansion are based on his ideas....