Tag: PRIZE

The list of nominees for this year's Nobel Peace Prize includes plenty of individuals and organizations that probably deserve the award, along with two curious candidates that will almost certainly hog all of the media's attention: WikiLeaks and the Internet. This year's field features a whopping 241 nominees, breaking the record of 237 set just last year. Notable candidates include former ...

On Saturday, iTunes VP Eddy Cue called a woman named Gail Davis of Orpington, Kent, U.K., to congratulate her on winning Apple's 10 billionth app download sweepstakes, and to award her with a $10,000 prize. Davis, however, politely declined the offer, and hung up. "I thought it was a prank call," Davis told Cult of Mac. "I said, 'Thank you very much, I'm not interested' and I hung up." But one ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the research arm of the U.S. military, has been hosting public contests with cash prizes, for the past five years. Previous years have seen challenges such as asking people to build robots that could walk from Los Angeles to Las Vegas (no one managed to do so), but this year, DARPA has a Web 2.0-based trial for contestants. Beginning ...