Monster Match, a game funded by Mozilla, shows how dating app algorithms reinforce bias—and serve the company more than the user.
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How Red Bull's Aerobatic Helicopter Flies Wild Stunts Over NYC
For a stomach-twisting performance above Manhattan, Red Bull brought in an elite pilot and an unusual sort of helicopter.
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How to Spring Clean Your Digital Clutter to Protect Yourself
You don't have to get your hands dirty to do the most important spring cleaning of the year.
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It’s OK That Amazon Will (Likely) Get the .amazon Domain
Based on my time at ICANN, I know how hard it was to make the right decisions in the face of what, to the public, appeared to be obviously wrong.
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What Do Amazon's Star Ratings Really Mean?
Amazon says an item's stars reflect the “average customer review,” but the calculation gets more complicated than that.
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23 Best Memorial Day Sales of 2019: Laptops, TVs, Apple, and More
From iPads to camping slippers, we scoured the Memorial Day sales on laptops, TVs, outdoor gear, and video games to find our absolute favorite deals this weekend.
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Mysterious Midwest Tornadoes, Airbnb's NYC Truce, and More News
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.
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885 Million First American Financial Records Exposed Online
Real estate giant First American left Social Security numbers, tax documents, and more publicly available.
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Gadget Lab Podcast: Samsung’s Innovation Dilemma
David Eun, president of Samsung’s innovation arm NEXT, says younger consumers are shifting towards experiences, not things. What does that mean for a company that makes devices?
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Apple's MacBook Pro Keyboard Fix Comes Down to Tiny Tweaks
There are at least two material differences in the 2019 MacBook Pro keyboard, intended to fix its sticky keys.
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Netflix's Anything-Goes Philosophy Gets to Parody Rap with Lonely Island's 'Unauthorized Bash Brothers Experience'
A surprise "visual poem" from Lonely Island embraces late-’80s sports and rap nostalgia—and tightens Netflix's grip on comedy gambles.
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Climate Change Is Bringing Epic Flooding to the Midwest
We often focus on coastal cities when we talk about rising waters, but massive rainfall in the middle of the US has put millions at risk, harming the nation’s ability to produce food.
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Midwest Tornadoes: Why It’s So Hard to Predict Where a Twister Will Strike
A series of tornadoes has brought devastation to the Midwest. Ideally, we could forecast such twisters, but the phenomenon is confounding.
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The Tricky Physics of How the Avengers Manage to Fly
To understand how Star-Lord flies, you have to consider both the forces acting on him (hello, jet boots) and the torque.
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Which public US universities graduate the most funded founders?
A lot of students attend public universities to lessen the financial burden of higher education. At last tally, tuition and fees at American public colleges and universities averaged around $6,800 a year, per the federal government. That’s far below the $32,600 mean price tag for private, nonprofit institutions.
Yet when it comes to public universities, the old adage “you get what you pay for” clearly does not apply. Leading public research universities in particular have a track record of turning out enviably knowledgeable and successful graduates. That includes a whole lot of funded startup founders.
And that leads us to our latest ranking. At Crunchbase News, we’ve been tracking the intersection of alumni affiliation and startup funding for the past few years. In a story published earlier this week, we looked at which U.S. universities graduated the most founders of startups that raised $1 million or more in roughly the past year.
For today’s follow-up, we’re focusing exclusively on public universities. Starting with a list of top-ranking research universities, we looked to see which have graduated the highest number of funded founders.
For the most part, we used the same criteria as the public-and-private list, focusing on startups that raised $1 million or more after May, 2018. The public list, however, does not separate out business school grads.
Without further ado, here’s the list:
Key findings
Looking at the list above, a few things stand out. First, our top ranker, University of California at Berkeley, is multiples above the rest of the field when it comes to graduating funded founders.
Berkeley is a school that’s generally hard to get into, prominent in STEM and located in the VC-rich San Francisco Bay Area. So seeing it top the list isn’t necessarily surprising. However, the magnitude of its lead — with nearly three times the funded founders of runner-up UCLA — does warrant attention.
Big Midwestern schools also did well, with University of Michigan and University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign nabbing the third and fourth spots.
More broadly, the list includes schools from all U.S. regions, including the East Coast, West Coast, South, Midwest and Southwest. So no particular region has a lock on graduating funded entrepreneurs. That’s also not surprising. But it’s good to have some more numbers to back up that notion.
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Pacific White-Sided Dolphin at Chicago Aquarium Is Pregnant — Here’s the Ultrasound
A Chicago aquarium is expecting a new addition to their dolphin family. Piquet, one of the Pacific white-sided dolphins at Shedd Aquarium, is pregnant and due to deliver in the fall. The 31-year-old […]
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Record-Setting, 62-Pound Alligator Snapping Turtle Found in Mississippi
Now this is one big turtle. A researcher in Mississippi found a huge alligator snapping turtle (Macrochelys temminckii) while conducting a survey of the reptiles. Luke Pearson found the turtle, a male, in […]
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Memorial Day Sale: Extra 15% Off Wireless Earbuds and Bluetooth Speakers
Waiting for the right time to purchase a new Bluetooth speaker, headphones, or earbuds? Your patience is about to pay off. That’s because this Memorial Day weekend you’ll save an extra 15 percent […]
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World’s Smallest McDonald’s Is Now Open (And It’s for Bees)
The world’s smallest McDonald’s has opened its doors in Sweden and it has everyone buzzing — literally. Called the McHive, the tiny McDonald’s is not serving burgers and fries to fast-food fans, it’s […]
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Here’s Everything Coming to Amazon Prime Video in June 2019
If you need your summer binge-watching plans sorted in advance, Amazon Prime Video is here to help. In addition to blockbuster movies (Captain Marvel, Us) that will be available to rent or purchase, […]
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Memorial Day Deal: Save an Extra 60% Off e-Learning Packages
Classroom training isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. Lectures are boring, tuition is expensive, and schedules are unforgiving — which is what makes web-based courses so attractive. They offer students the flexibility they need […]
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Anaconda Gets Pregnant Without a Male, Has ‘Virgin Birth’ at Aquarium
An 8-year-old, 10-foot anaconda named Anna has given birth to two babies, despite not having any contact with a male, according to staff of a Boston, Massachusetts aquarium. DNA testing conducted by the […]
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What to Stream on Amazon Prime This Weekend
The weekend is the best for relaxing activities, including binge-watching some Amazon Prime flicks. We’ve rounded up the best movies, TV shows, and documentaries that you can stream on Amazon Prime from May 24 to May […]
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Here Are Vintage Photos of Cats Doing Human Things
Sure, countless cats and dogs are now Instagram-famous for getting into hilarious and adorable human-like situations, but the concept has been around for over a century. In 1914, photographer Harry Whittier Frees shot an […]
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‘Mortal Kombat 11’ Kharacter Guide: Cassie Cage
There have been eleven main Mortal Kombat games. Can you believe it? The 90s were that long ago. Since then the fighting game has become a gory institution as colorful ninjas and sorcerers […]
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Top Movie and TV Trailers of the Week: ‘Terminator: Dark Fate,’ ‘Stranger Things,’ and More
TGIF. While you’re planning for the long weekend ahead, we’ve rounded up the top movie and TV trailers that you might have missed during the week. Stranger Things, which returns to Netflix on […]
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What to Stream on Hulu This Weekend
Hulu has a lot to offer, however, deciding what to watch on the platform isn’t always easy. If you need help choosing a flick for your next movie night, you’ve come to the […]
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Taika Waititi’s ‘Akira’ Is Coming in 2021
A live-action Akira remake is such a bad idea. The original manga by Katsuhiro Otomo is a legendary classic, as is the 1988 anime adaptation, a movie so cool and good it’s okay […]
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What Makes a Great Dungeon Master, According to Players at D&D Live 2019
Maybe it’s just because of how new I am to tabletop roleplay games but, oh man, I can’t even begin to get my head around what it takes to be a Dungeon Master. […]
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Harrison Ford Pays Tribute to ‘Star Wars’ Co-Star and Chewbacca Actor Peter Mayhew
Harrison Ford became visibly emotional as he remembered Star Wars co-star and Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew on Thursday night’s broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The 7-foot, 3-inch Mayhew, who originated […]
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Blow $8,000 on This ‘Game of Thrones’-Themed Samsung Galaxy Fold
Just in case you didn’t think the $2,000 price tag Samsung slapped on the still-unreleased Galaxy Fold wasn’t already high enough, the masters of excess at Caviar have something special for you. They’ve […]
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Watch These Movies Before ‘Aladdin’
Disney’s live-action remake of Aladdin is in theaters this weekend, and it’s only the second of three live-action remakes of animated Disney hits set for 2019. But whereas Dumbo was a late-period Tim Burton […]
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Next ‘Call of Duty’ Is Probably ‘Modern Warfare 4’
Actual news on this year’s Call of Duty game is probably coming next week, but today industry insiders have confirmed this fourth Modern Warfare game, the series that began with Call of Duty 4: […]
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At Last, the Live-Action ‘Sonic The Hedgehog’ Trailer Is Here!
Suffice it to say, the internet had a pretty intense reaction to this very first trailer for the live-action Sonic the Hedgehog movie. Specifically fans of the game (and people who just generally […]
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Get Ready For A ‘Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic’ Movie
When Disney and Lucasfilm say that the upcoming Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is the end of the saga, they really just mean that Episode IX is the end of the Skywalker Saga. […]
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Doctored Political Videos And Social Media
A doctored video featuring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was shared widely online this week. Amanda Carpenter, author of Gaslighting America, tells NPR's Scott Simon how easily disinformation spreads.
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RAF tests BriteCloud missile decoys on Typhoon fighters
The Royal Air Force (RAF) has begun testing the latest version of the BriteCloud missile decoy on its Typhoon fighter aircraft. At the Typhoon Ministerial Meeting in Germany, British Defence minister Stuart Andrew revealed that the disposable soda-can-sized anti-radar electronics packages began testing in April by the RAF's 41 Test and Evaluation Squadron based at RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire.
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Boeing CST-100 Starliner completes hot-fire thruster tests
At NASA's White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, Boeing recently completed live-fire tests of the complex array of thrusters that will be used to guide the seven-passenger spacecraft in orbit and provide propulsion for the emergency abort system. The successful trials now open the way to full abort testing and the first unmanned orbital flight.
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Mars 2020 mission goes to Death Valley to test landing cameras
The technology that will guide NASA's Mars 2020 mission to a landing on the surface of Mars began testing recently in the skies over Death Valley in California. Installed in an Airbus helicopter, an engineering prototype of the Lander Vision System (LVS) was put through a series of pre-planned maneuvers designed to test the device's ability to collect and analyze images of the mountainous desert landscape for landing navigation purposes.
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Big, burly and often beautiful: Camper vans and adventure Sprinters of Overland Expo West 2019
As #vanlife has grown from cult phenomenon to almost-mainstream lifestyle alternative for the young and young-at-heart, it feels like van dwellers are constantly on the lookout for more distant roads, tracks and spaces to explore. And with that, the market for ruggedized adventure vans and custom overland campers is absolutely booming. The lifted, armored 4x4 camper vans that just a few years ago seemed the exclusive tools of hardy "most interesting man in the world"-type explorers can now be seen parked at local trailheads, ski resorts and Starbucks all over the map, and they're making the annual Overland Expo West show less truck, more van.
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TrailStomper microtrailer might just be the lightest, sleekest off-road camping trailer out there
Just days after we looked at a 298-lb (135-kg) prototype camping trailer that is literally featherlight, we found a trailer that weighs even less – and this one's built to go off-road. The SportsRig TrailStomper is a wagon-like towable that buyers can build into the nimblest of off-grid camping trailers. Top it with a roof-top tent, slide some kitchen gear inside, tune the custom suspension system for the added weight, and you have a trailer that will pull less than US$10,000 out of your wallet and feel barely-there behind your bumper.
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Heron USV is to boats what quadcopters are to aircraft
We hear a lot about aerial and underwater drones, but ones that travel on the water's surface … not so much. They can be quite useful, though, as we discovered when we recently checked out the Heron USV (unmanned surface vessel) at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
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HyQReal four-legged robot tows a three-ton passenger plane
Last time we wrote about the HyQ robot, it had just mastered walking and begun venturing into rough terrain. Now, its successor has do so with a three-ton passenger airplane in tow. Granted seven years of research and development have played out since, it is an impressive show of strength for hydraulically actuated robot not much bigger than a dog.
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Tiny Lyra knife uses clever folding linkage to stretch out for a four-finger grip
Knives can come with a user-friendly grip and they can certainly come in small packages, but offering the two in the one device is going to take some clever design. This is the task taken on by Horizon Knives, whose Lyra morphing knife is small enough to be keychain-compatible, but uses a nifty folding mechanism to give its users a good handle on the job.
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CadenceX reimagines the bottle dynamo for the 21st Century
Remember those "bottle"-type dynamos that rubbed against the side of your bike tire in order to power the lights? Well, they've gotten a high-tech makeover, in the form of the fork-mounted CadenceX generator – its creators say that it can replace the batteries currently needed for all bicycle electronics.
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SpaceX launches first bunch of satellites for its Starlink mega-constellation
The first of SpaceX's functional Starlink satellites have been launched into space, with the company successfully putting the first pieces in place for what it hopes will be a vast network blanketing the entire globe in high-speed broadband internet.
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Vogi VTOL drone uses swingin' props to keep things simple and efficient
Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) drones typically have four horizontal propellers for moving up and down, along with a vertical rear "pusher" prop for moving forward in more efficient fixed-wing flight. A new aircraft, however, uses the same four props for everything.
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Opel goes all-electric for 6th gen Corsa
Opel's not one for rushing into releasing new models of its popular Corsa family runabout – the 5th generation was announced in 2014, and the gen before that was launched in 2006. For its just-revealed 6th gen, the German auto maker has decided to embrace the battery-electric future with the Corsa-e.
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Scoop stretcher can transform to a lightweight wheelchair in seconds
Dutch design firm Studio Rotor has been working with startup Retter Helfer Medical on a lightweight patient transport option for ambulance personnel. The Multi Scoop Pro features a patented mechanism that sees it change from flat stretcher to wheelchair in a matter of seconds.
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Interview: Semi-paralyzed wild man Tanner Godfrey prepares for a third UTV jumping world record
Twice now, Tanner Godfrey has jumped further in a UTV than anyone in history. Since he doesn't have full use of his legs, he's done it by literally poking the gas and brake pedals with a stick. And on Monday, armed with a new stick, he's lining up for the biggest jump of his life.
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