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Act now to voice your tech-related policy concerns

Legislation moves slowly but you still need to act fast. There’s only a short window of time to get legislation considered. Have a room to rent on Airbnb? Is your…

NDSU student researchers working to make prescription drugs cheaper

Meticulous. Creative. Intellectually courageous. That’s NDSU student Kelly Howard in a nutshell. This from Professor David Wells, Ph.D, who teaches Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering. Howard has the course load you…

Fargo entrepreneurs standardizing pocket billiards ratings with FargoRate

Steve Ernst sees a problem and he fixes it. Turns out, there’s a pretty big problem in the world of pocket billiards: there’s no standardized ranking system for player abilities. Instead…

Policy Matters: ITCND hosting meeting on November 1

Think you don’t have a voice? Think again. The best way to be heard is to get involved. Join Emerging Prairie and Information Technology Council of North Dakota (ITCND) to learn…

Token of Trust. Software company streamlines ID verification process.

“I was a tinkerer. Always building stuff.” Austin O’Brion is a maker. “I was a 4H-er. I focused on electricity. I had to learn how to sew…That’s what you do…

An app for ales. Brewzeit connects beer lovers

Have you noticed the explosion in the craft beer market? Alex Dixon certainly has. Mostly, it’s a good thing. “Even five years ago, the options were a lot less,” says…

Internet Privacy Q and A

We send out massive amounts of data about ourselves when we visit websites, download apps, and even answer those fun online quizzes. That leaves us vulnerable to a host of…

2016 Fargo Hackathon Wrap Up

The 2016 Fargo Civic Hackathon brought together a group of proudly, self-proclaimed “nerds.” This group of developers, designers and data scientists, spent a weekend digging into data sets and building…

Fargo Game Jam winners to speak at 1 Million Cups

At Fargo Game Jam 2016, five teams had thirty hours, spread over the course of three days, to create a video game that related to at least one of two themes:…

NDSU international student came to Fargo for the game-makers, launching VR game

There is a lot more than indie game fame hinging on Santipab “Ruben” Tipparach’s game, Fleet Hackers. If the game turns into a full-time job, he will be able to…