Fish Hackathon! The U.S. State Department together with North of 41 and Bnotions is hosting an international FishHackathon in Toronto on June 5, 6 and 7. This event will be taking place in multiple cities at the same time around the world.
There are grand prizes for the winning team including a trip to Asia.
In other tech news, Amazon.com Inc is in a race against Google Inc to store data on human DNA, seeking both bragging rights in helping scientists make new medical discoveries and market share in a business that may be worth $1 billion a year by 2018.
Academic institutions and healthcare companies are picking sides between their cloud computing offerings - Google Genomics or Amazon Web Services - spurring the two to one-up each other as they win high-profile genomics business, according to interviews with researchers, industry consultants and analysts.
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Shane Dingman