Asylum-seeking children wait to be transported to a U.S. border patrol processing facility in Texas, U.S., May 6, 2021. /Reuters An effort by U.S. President Joe Biden to reunite migrant famili
Trucks Venture Capital, a fund that focuses on early-stage entrepreneurs in transportation, is launching two new funds that it says will help build the future of transportation.Its new core fund, Truc
Electric vehicle startup Fisker Inc. has set a moonshot goal of creating its first climate neutral car by 2027.Fisker has yet to bring a vehicle to market — climate neutral or not — making this an amb
You’d be forgiven for being confused. I’ve been following this story and am currently writing it and I’m still fairly confused. But Turntable (or tt.fm), not to be confused with Turntable.fm (th
Editor's note: Graça Machel is founder of the Graça Machel Trust. Helen Clark, former prime minister of New Zealand (1999-2008), is chair of the Board of Women Political Leaders. Mary Robinson is
A woman walks past an empty cafe during morning commute hours on the first day of a seven-day lockdown as the state of Victoria looks to curb the spread of the COVID-19 outbreak in Melbourne, Aus
On Monday afternoon, the U.S. Justice Department said it has seized much of the cryptocurrency ransom that U.S. pipeline operator Colonial Pipeline paid last month to a Russian hacking collective call
Hey, founders between gigs: What now?If you exited your last company for airplane money and are now independently wealthy, congratulations! If you want to build another company, just self-fund. If you
Production for Tesla's longest-range Model S Plaid+ has been canceled, CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet on Sunday. "Plaid+ is canceled. No need, as Plaid is just so good,"
Rose Wachuka, the Chief of Staff at Kenya's Ministry of Sports, Culture and Heritage, speaks during an interview in Nairobi, Kenya. /CGTN The Kenyan Safari Rally will make its much-anticipated
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The 88-seat Overture airline produced by Boom Supersonic aims to be the first to have zero carbon emissions
Disrupt 2020 was an absolute banger of a conference, but we’re not ones to rest on our laurels. We have an incredible Disrupt in store for you this September 21-23, with an amazing line up of sp
United Airlines is the first official U.S. customer for Boom Supersonic, a company focused on making supersonic commercial flight a reality once again. Boom unveiled its supersonic sub-scale testing a
As part of a new project involving UK scientists, the worms will be flown to the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday.
The European Commission has announced a partnership with Bill Gates’ sustainable energy funding vehicle with the goal of unlocking new investments for clean tech and sustainable energy projects
Editor's note: Timothy Kerswell is a research fellow at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen). He lived in Macao for seven years, working as an assistant profe