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Astroscale successfully demos in-space capture-and-release system to clear orbital debris

Astroscale hit a major milestone Wednesday, when its space junk removal demo satellite that’s currently in orbit successfully captured and released a client spacecraft using a magnetic system.The End-

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Wing approaches 100,000 drone deliveries two years after Logan, Australia launch

In a blog post this morning, Alphabet drone delivery company Wing announced that it is set to hit 100,000 customer deliveries over the weekend. The news comes on the second anniversary of the service’

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Bodo.ai secures $14M, aims to make Python better at handling large-scale data

Bodo.ai, a parallel compute platform for data workloads, is developing a compiler to make Python portable and efficient across multiple hardware platforms. It announced Wednesday a $14 million Series

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D2C specs purveyor Warby Parker files to go public

Did you miss IPOs? I sure did. They could be coming back after a summer lull.Warby Parker, a D2C glasses company backed by over a half-billion dollars of private capital, filed to go public yesterday.

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Wild tortoise's 'horrifying' attack on baby bird never seen before, say experts

The attack on the baby bird was seen on Fregate Island in the Seychelles and researchers think this new hunting behaviour has been driven by the unusual combination of a tree-nesting tern colony and a resident giant tortoise population in the area.

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Space log: 'I'm amazed by the universe!' says Shenzhou-12 taikonaut

Chinese astronaut Nie Haisheng conducts his second spacewalk outside the China Space Station, August 20, 2021. /China Media GroupThe most memorable moment for China's S

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Self-driving tech stumbles forward as accidents under probe

Tesla's Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday that the electric car maker was working on improving the much-awaited update to its self-driving software "as fast as p

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Algeria severs diplomatic ties with Morocco: FM

Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra gestures as he reads a statement from the country's president in Algiers, Algeria, August 24, 2021. /CFP Algerian Foreign Minister Ramtane Lamamra ann

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Ramp and Brex draw diverging market plans with M&A strategies

Earlier today, spend management startup Ramp said it has raised a $300 million Series C that valued it at $3.9 billion. It also said it was acquiring Buyer, a “negotiation-as-a-service” platform that

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UNESCO adds Rio botanical garden to world heritage site

03:00 Abotanicalgarden at the home of renowned landscape artist and amateur botanist,Roberto Burle Marx,was recently named a world heritage site byUNESCO, the United Nations Organizatio

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Boston’s startup market is more than setting records in scorching start to year

The global startup community is currently enjoying a period of fundraising success that may be unprecedented in the history of technology and venture capital. While this is happening around the world,

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After testing, Instagram launches ads in the Instagram Shop tab globally

Last year, Instagram unveiled Shops as part of Facebook’s larger pivot toward e-commerce. Shops is front-and-almost-center on the app’s bottom navigation bar, even more readily accessible

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Saihanba: The 'green miracle' created by three generations in N China

OnAugust 24, 2021, Chinese President Xi Jinping inspected Saihanba Forest Farm in north China's Hebei Province. Saihanba is considered to be a miracle as it has been tr

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IAG-2021: Chinese team wins 1st day at Xinjiang army games

02:22 A Chinese team has claimed victory on the opening day of the International Army Games-2021 (IAG-2021), held in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.On Monday, the fi

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OpenTable integrates CLEAR’s digital vaccine card for restaurants requiring proof of vaccination

Cities like New York City, San Francisco and New Orleans are moving to enact COVID-19 vaccination requirements for indoor dining. So OpenTable, the online restaurant reservation service, is rolling ou

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Intel inks deal with Department of Defense to support domestic chip-building ecosystem

Intel has signed a deal with the Department of Defense to support a domestic commercial chip-building ecosystem. The chipmaker will lead the first phase of a program called Rapid Assured Microelectron

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How one founder aims to bring researchers and food producers together around cultured meat

When Clarisse Beurrier was getting her education in Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, she already knew she wanted to make a difference; hence her participation in Effective Altruism Cambridge, a