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Fifteen teams aim for "carbon negativity, not neutrality" with a $50 million first prize.

Entrants will have four years to work on the problem.

The XPrize Pandemic Response Challenge seeks ways to safely reopen societies amidst a pandemic.

The goal is to make testing faster, cheaper and easier.

A device in a shipping container could solve water shortages.

It has teamed up with various organizations to test software kids can use to teach themselves.

The finalists will be split into two tracks. One will test their tech with coal, and the other with natural gas.

The organization is looking for a new sponsor, however.

And Google doesn't mind it.

The next step is field testing each team's software in Tanzania.

They know about dystopian fiction, though, right?

They'll be using AI to solve humanity's greatest challenges along the way.

The XPrize Tricorder winner is half real medical device, half Dr. McCoy.

It's been a long journey for these teams.

Can you build a device that'll gather 2,000 liters of water per day from our atmosphere?

Participants have to prove their technology works before winning $20 million.

XPRIZE competition seeks the Vision, not Ultron.

The Shell Ocean Discovery Xprize offers serious cash for mapping the seafloor with robots.