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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin to start selling tickets for space tourism

Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos addresses the media about the New Shepard rocket booster and Crew Capsule mockup at the 33rd Space Symposium in Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S., April 5

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Peloton’s leaky API let anyone grab rider’s private account data

Halfway through my Monday afternoon workout last week, I got a message from a security researcher with a screenshot of my Peloton account data.My Peloton profile is set to private and my friend’

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Chinese divers finish first and third in FINA Diving World Cup

Gold medalist Chen Yiwen (R) and bronze medalist Chang Yani of China pose with their medals after the Women's 3-meter springboard final at the FINA Diving World Cup in Tokyo, May 4, 2021. /CFP

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Wine that spent more than year in space orbiting Earth could fetch $1m

The wine, named Petrus 2000, was one of 12 bottles sent into space in November 2019 and tastes "delicious", experts say.

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Uber and Arrival partner to create an EV for ride-hail drivers

Arrival, the electric vehicle manufacturer that’s attempting to do away with the assembly line in favor of highly automated microfactories, is partnering with Uber to create an EV for ride-hail driver

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Indian PM Modi's BJP loses crucial state election amid COVID crisis

The incumbent chief minister's party in India's West Bengal state has defeated Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party in a state election held as the coronavirus pandemic

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CryptoPunks maker Larva Labs launches their new NFT project, Meebits

The creators behind CryptoPunks, one of the most popular NFT projects on the web, just revealed their latest project called Meebits. The project boasts 20,000 procedurally generated 3D characters that

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Duolingo can’t teach you how to speak a language, but now it wants to try

Duolingo has been wildly successful. It has pulled in 500 million total registered learners, 40 million active users, 1.5 million premium subscribers and $190 million in booked revenues in 2020. It ha

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China Space Station: Who does the countdown to blastoff?

Screenshot of CMG's interview with Liao Guorui. There was a thrilling yet silent moment last week as a commander counted down the final seconds before Tianhe, the core

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Gillmor Gang: Walk the Dinosaur

Clubhouse hosted another excellent conversation between Josh Constine and Facebook’s audio czar Fidji Simo. The format continues to sparkle, as I was once again forced to choose between MSNBC

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Data was the new oil, until the oil caught fire

We’ve been hearing how “data is the new oil” for more than a decade now, and in certain sectors, it’s a maxim that has more than panned out. From marketing and logistics to finance and product, decisi

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Biden Says Admin Still Can't Find Hundreds of Migrant Kids Separated From Parents by Trump

President Joe Biden said that his administration is still struggling to locate many of the hundreds of migrant children separated from their parents under former Presid

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People who've had COVID get 'enhanced' protection against variants from one vaccine dose - study

Among those who received a COVID jab but were not infected in the past, the immune response may be insufficient, say scientists.

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Climate change vs. Techno-utopia

VCG Editor's note: Daron Acemoglu is Professor of Economics at MIT, co-author (with James A. Robinson) of "Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty" and "The Narrow Corri

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Graphics: How has Biden performed in his first 100 days?

Thursday marks Day 100 of U.S. President Joe Biden's presidency. The 100-day mark offers a window into the priorities of the president's agenda.The circumstances have been particularly high-stakes fo

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Europe needs a new fiscal framework

A concept of European economic crisis made with an European flag background with coronavirus icons instead of the yellow stars and red downtrend arrow. /Getty Editor's note: Jean Pisani-Ferry,

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Germany must tighten climate law to protect young people's future, court rules

Germany must update its climate law by the end of next year to set out how it will bring carbon emissions down nearly to zero by 2050, its top court ruled on Thursday,