Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk are billionaires racing to make recyclable rockets. Musk has a big head start, but Bezos’ company is looking for ways to one-up SpaceX. If you thought those SpaceX drone ship landing pads were cool, Blue Origin says you’re going to love its rocket landing technique. It involves a seafaring ship […]
Despite predictions that business travelers would never travel in a privately-owned car to their destinations, ride-sharing is systematically decimating the rental car and, especially, the taxi industries. According to the Certify Q1 2018 SpendSmart report, which analyzed over 10 million business receipts and expenses from the first quarter of 2018, ride-sharing now accounts for more […]
After two earlier attempts failed to materialize, T-Mobile and Sprint announced on Sunday that they’ve reached a $26.5 billion merger agreement. If approved, it would combine the third and fourth largest carriers in the United States. The new business would instantly become a much more formidable rival to Verizon and AT&T. Both companies claim that […]
Doctors could be a step closer to finding the most effective way to treat cancer with a double whammy of a virus combined with boosting the natural immune system, according to a pioneering study by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and The Ohio State University. “The findings of […]
Blue Origin, the private space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, launched its passenger spaceship New Shepard on a test flight Sunday (April 29), carrying a dummy astronaut and experiments on their highest spaceflight yet. The New Shepard 2.0 rocket and capsule, which have both flown in space before, lifted off from Blue Origin’s West […]
With the specter of News Feed changes and revelations that user information had been misused by an outside company, Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) investors were justifiably concerned going into the company’s financial report. The stock had fallen 10% during the quarter, and doubts remained about whether the company would be able to continue its history of […]
T-Mobile and Sprint are combining in a deal that would create a bigger No. 3 cellular carrier in the U.S., but could also signal the end of an era of aggressive competition for customers. The merger, in an all-stock deal announced Sunday after years of on-again-off-again courting, would create a company using the name T-Mobile. […]
Researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and the Columbia Aging Center found men with a stronger grip were more likely to be married than men with weaker grips. Grip strength was not a factor in the marital status of women. The findings are published online in the journal SSM-Population Health. Grip strength […]
For a while now, NASA has been developing an orbiting lunar outpost to serve as a test bed for new technologies and science experiments, as well as a staging area for crewed and robotic missions to the moon and, eventually, Mars. Initially called the Deep Space Gateway, it’s been redubbed the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway. But […]
That is not dead which can eternal lie, though it’s only taken a few months for T-Mobile and Sprint to dust themselves off and renew their plans for a major merger, per a Friday report in CNBC. The two companies called off prior plans for a merger in November 2017 amid an inability to reach […]
Merger talks between British supermarket chains Sainsbury’s and Asda are at an “advanced” stage, Sainsbury’s has confirmed. The two brands are expected to be retained should a merger go ahead. Sainsbury’s and Asda – the UK arm of Walmart – are the second and third largest supermarkets in the UK. The combined group would comprise […]
Exposure to the kind of blue light emitted by outdoor LEDs, smartphones and tablets may increase your risk of breast or prostate cancer, a new study suggests. The study, published Monday in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, compared previous exposure to artificial lights at night between approximately 2,000 breast or prostate cancer patients and approximately […]
