By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s SpaceX has tapped NASA’s former human spaceflight boss Kathy Lueders to help oversee development of the company’s moon and M[...]
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Virgin Orbit plans to move back deadline for bidders – source
By Joey Roulette (Reuters) – Satellite launch company Virgin Orbit is planning to move back the deadline for prospective bidders to buy its assets by a handful of days, according to two sources[...]
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Exclusive-Wegovy, other weight loss drugs ‘no silver bullet’, says WHO amid obesity review
By Jennifer Rigby LONDON (Reuters) – New highly-effective weight loss drugs such as Novo Nordisk’s Wegovy are not a “silver bullet” for addressing the rapid rise in global obesity rates, t[...]
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U.S. Supreme Court preserves California humane pig confinement law
By Nate Raymond and Andrew Chung (Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday preserved a California law banning the sale of pork in America’s most-populous state from pigs kept in tight[...]
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Space startup partners with SpaceX to launch commercial space station
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Vast, a startup backed by cryptocurrency billionaire Jed McCaleb, is aiming to launch a school bus-sized space station to orbit by late 2025 with some hel[...]
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Microsoft signs power purchase deal with nuclear fusion company Helion
By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Private U.S. nuclear fusion company Helion Energy will provide Microsoft with electricity in about five years, the companies said on Wednesday, in the first su[...]
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Metaverse could contribute up to 2.4% of US GDP by 2035 – study
(Reuters) – The metaverse could contribute as much as $760 billion or about 2.4% to U.S. annual gross domestic product (GDP) by 2035, according to a study commissioned by Facebook owner Meta Pla[...]
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Amazon plans more warehouses and higher headcount in Europe
By Helen Reid BARCELONA (Reuters) – Amazon plans to open new warehouses and hire more people in Europe, an executive said on Tuesday, even as squeezed consumer spending forces the tech giant to[...]
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Google AI pioneer says he quit to speak freely about technology’s ‘dangers’
(Reuters) – A pioneer of artificial intelligence said he quit Google to speak freely about the technology’s dangers, after realising computers could become smarter than people far sooner t[...]
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