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Lana Del Rey giving away money to innovative thinkers
Written by . Published: February 13 2013
Lana Del Rey is to hand out $100,000 grants to "innovative thinkers" as part of a new technology contest.
The Video Games hitmaker will assign the donations to groups in the States and Europe who come up with impressive ways to advance technology.
Del Rey announced the competition on her Twitter.com page on
Wednesday (13Feb13) writing, "Submissions begin next week for our
institute of innovative thinkers.
"We're donating $100,000 in America and $100,000 in Europe to 10
groups of people in each territory with innovative ideas aimed at
forwarding technology and improving sustainability."
More details will be announced next week (beg18Feb13).