On March 6th, 2021 with 158 comments
schwit1 shares an article from Entrepreneur:
If anyone has the ability to surprise the world with his ambitious projects, it is Elon Musk . The billionaire...
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On March 3rd, 2021 with 44 comments
Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa on Wednesday launched a search for eight people to join him as the first private passenger on a trip around the moon with...
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On February 22nd, 2021 with 243 comments
The summary of a study by National Bureau of Economic Research: The past two decades have seen a rapid increase in Private Equity (PE) investment in...
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On February 1st, 2021 with 83 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Exxon Mobil, which has long been criticized by environmentalists and some investors and elected...
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On January 27th, 2021 with 32 comments
An American real estate investor, a Canadian investor, and a former Israeli Air Force pilot are paying $55 million each to be part of the first fully private...
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On December 18th, 2020 with 72 comments
SpamSlapper shares a report from The Australian Broadcasting Corporation: A company commercializing a CSIRO-developed, seaweed feed product, which slashes the...
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On December 17th, 2020 with 185 comments
schwit1 shares a report from Ars Technica: Since that time, according to The Planetary Society's Casey Dreier, NASA has spent $23.7 billion developing the...
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On December 2nd, 2020 with 195 comments
AmiMoJo shares a report from the BBC: The winning numbers in South Africa's national lottery have caused a stir and sparked accusations of fraud over their...
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On October 29th, 2020 with 192 comments
A reader shares a report from Observer: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered a rare, heavy and immensely valuable asteroid called "16 Psyche" in the...
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On October 7th, 2020 with 56 comments
Raisey-raison writes from a report via The New York Times: The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three astrophysicists for their work on black holes,...
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On September 16th, 2020 with 20 comments
The European Space Agency (ESA) is awarding a $153 million contract to an industry consortium led by German space company OHB. "The contract covers the...
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On July 28th, 2020 with 43 comments
A decimal point error at e-commerce site Etsy briefly caused the company to overcharge for shipping labels by thousands of dollars. PCMag reports: Etsy...
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On July 22nd, 2020 with 80 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Scores of Russia's business and political elite have been given early access to an experimental vaccine...
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On April 28th, 2020 with 12 comments
More than 150 investors and entrepreneurs in India are funding dozens of projects in a bid to help millions better combat the COVID-19 epidemic and help the...
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On April 9th, 2020 with 212 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: Some local officials are disappointed the federal government will end funding for coronavirus testing sites this...
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On March 31st, 2020 with 107 comments
A group of MIT scientists has created an emergency ventilator, which is affordable, and easily made using regular hospital devices. Interesting Engineering...
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On March 25th, 2020 with 124 comments
sciencehabit shares a report from Science Magazine: The $2 trillion stimulus package that the U.S. Senate is working to approve today is aimed at helping the...
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On March 24th, 2020 with 171 comments
When customers step in for a cup of coffee at Ritual Coffee Roasters on Valencia Street, a sign informs them that cash is no longer welcome. The coffee shop...
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On March 18th, 2020 with 106 comments
schwit1 shares a report from UPI: Construction on NASA's mobile launcher program for the new Space Launch System moon rocket is 44 percent over budget and...
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On February 18th, 2020 with 81 comments
SpaceX is working with Space Adventures to launch up to four tourists into a super high orbit, possible by the end of next year. "Ticket prices are not being...
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On February 13th, 2020 with 197 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: [...] The most significant improvement was in how the money helped parents, well, to parent. Before the casino opened its...
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On February 10th, 2020 with 413 comments
It's another sea of red ink for federal research funding programs in President Donald Trump's latest budget proposal. The 2021 budget request to Congress...
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On December 16th, 2019 with 34 comments
New Jersey's largest hospital system said that it has paid hackers a ransom after a ransomware attack disrupted its services earlier this month. Threatpost...
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On December 12th, 2019 with 57 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Google co-founder Larry Page is funneling money from his charitable foundation to a private flu-fighting...
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On December 9th, 2019 with 25 comments
Amazon has been given free access to healthcare information collected by the NHS as part of a contract with the government. The material, which excludes...
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On December 9th, 2019 with 145 comments
Would you pay $1 million and fly to South America for a chance to live longer? From a report: Libella Gene Therapeutics, a Kansas-based company that says it is...
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On November 15th, 2019 with 119 comments
schwit1 shares a report from The Hill: The Trump administration on Friday unveiled new rules to require increased disclosure of health care prices, in a move...
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On November 8th, 2019 with 99 comments
Acting director of the White House budget office Russell Vought said in a letter that the cost estimate to build and fly a single NASA large Space Launch...
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On September 30th, 2019 with 301 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: So there's a British woman who's been in the news recently for diagnosing herself with a sensitivity to...
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On September 5th, 2019 with 197 comments
pacopico writes: Aerospace technology has gotten better. The price of rocket launches has come down. So much so that a group of space friends in Silicon Valley...
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According to all the latest reports, there was no truth in any of the earlier reports.
