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Want to raise big bucks for charity? Some tips from Cycle for Survival, which is on track to raise $100 million this year to fight cancer.

Each year, millions of people march, run, bike, swim, and even climb in the name of raising money for a charity of their choice. Today there are more than 40,000 walkathons alone in the U.S., and the top peer-to-peer fundraising programs raised more than $1.6 billion in 2014. But motivating people to give their time and energy—plus solicit donations from their family and friends—is a big ask. So how do the most successful fundraising events do it?

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The likely decision would be a huge win for net neutrality in the world’s second most populous country.

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) is set to reject services like Facebook’s Free Basics and similar services that use differential pricing for data, reports the Times of India. The move would be a major win for net neutrality advocates in the country who say that such services are discriminatory and create a limited second-tier Internet for the poor.

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Views of green pastures or trees might relieve anxiety and improve attention. A parking lot? Not so much.

Gazing out of the widow onto green pastures or a peaceful copse of trees while sitting an exam will actually help students score higher. And not just a little bit either—a new study has found that students’ capacity to pay attention increased 13% with a green view outside their classroom window.

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The students will get to build and test their pod on a Hyperloop track this summer.

A team of engineering students from MIT has won the Best Overall Design Award at the SpaceX’s Hyperloop Pod Competition Design Weekend contest at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. The MIT Hyperloop Team won for their design for pods that could travel via Hyperloop, a conceptual transportation system described in 2013 by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk as a series of tubes that shuttle passengers in pods at up to 700 miles an hour.

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The move could spell big trouble for publishers and comes after Apple added similar software in iOS 9.

If you’re an online publisher, you aren’t going to like this bit of news: As of Sunday night, Samsung has added ad-blocking software to all of its Android devices, reports the Guardian. The software, which is built in to the default Samsung web browser that ships on its devices, automatically blocks ads from appearing on web pages. The new ad-blocking software was added via a software update.

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This bargain bin splurge is good for at least an afternoon of amusement—and owning a tiny, odd piece of history.

Adobe’s Ink & Slide system is now just $30 on retail sites ranging from Amazon to the Boing Boing store. For that much, you might be tempted to pick it up, even though you probably don’t have much of a use for it. That’s OK. You’ve spent money worse ways.

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Facebook’s Audience Optimization yields extensive, sometimes surprising data on what people talk about.

Who is more popular, Jimmy Page or Katy Perry?

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The messaging app seeks to stimulate revenue growth, with a focus on amassing users in Asia rather than Europe or the U.S.

The Line messaging app, a Japanese rival to WhatsApp and WeChat, is working on a digital butler service in its quest to better monetize and compete with its peers, TechCrunch reports. The product will be unveiled in Thailand later this month, and will make its way to other markets shortly after if successful.

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The web giant is still struggling. Change is inevitable. What form will it take, and when will we know about it?

On February 2, Yahoo will announce its financial results for the last quarter of 2015 and the full year, and will hold a webcast to discuss them. But to an unusual degree, what people are waiting to hear about isn’t how the company’s been doing, or what its expectations are for the next quarter. They want to know about its future—which could involve the company getting broken up in various ways, shrinking, and/or making major changes to its management and board.

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On the day that Joe Biden convenes new Cancer Moonshot task force, White House says his budget will propose big boost for research.

Working on a cure for cancer is emerging as a top initiative of President Obama’s final year in office. Since the formal announcement of the goal in the State of the Union address, the White House effort, under Vice President Joe Biden, has been moving fast. The VP convenes the first meeting of a special task force today, pulling together five federal departments and various other agencies and bodies. And just this morning, according to sources including the Washington Post the White House reported that it will request an extra $1 billion in funding in the next two years for its Cancer Moonshot initiative.

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