Just when you thought it was safe to go back in The Upside Down, “Stranger Things” delivers a “Jaws” tribute poster.
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The Cassini-Huygens mission launched from Cape Canaveral on October 15, 1997, and tomorrow, just a month shy of 20 years later, one of the most prolific purveyors of beautiful planetary science crashes into Saturn in a bittersweet “Grand Finale.” With its fuel nearly exhausted, this is its final and most dramatic experiment. Read More
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Visa and Mastercard reportedly warned US financial institutions that hundreds of thousands of credit cards were stolen in the massive breach.
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While the orbiter will burn up over Saturn, its scientific legacy will live on.
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The suit follows an investigation by the US Department of Labor, as well as the infamous “Google memo” on gender diversity.
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Silicon Valley venture firm Social Capital just completed the first step in its mission to take startups public without the IPO. The team has listed something called a special purchase acquisition company, known as a SPAC. More common outside of the tech industry, these blank check companies are specifically designed to buy private companies and bring them public without going through the… Read More
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While plenty of smartphone features have been sunsetted on the way to thinner profiles and sexier bezels, none have garnered the ire of consumers quite as much as the removal of the aged and distinguished 3.5mm headphone jack.
Apple was early to axe the port, and while Andy Rubin’s Essential followed suit, a lot of consumers took issue with the move. Essential seems to be taking those… Read More
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The medical school in Ponce, Puerto Rico seems like an unlikely place to start a revolution in education. While it may look unassuming, with its campus bordered by empty lots, low slung buildings, auto body shops and the freeway, Ponce Health Sciences University is ground zero for an experiment in education that could radically transform the way medicine is taught. It’s there, a few… Read More
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The home rental company provides displaced people and relief workers free housing after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.
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Costanoa Ventures has raised a $175 million fund, the third fund for the Palo Alto-based venture firm. With a focus on enterprise technology, Costanoa Ventures typically invests at seed stage and Series A. The new fund brings the total capital for the five-year-old firm to $500 million under management. Read More
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