US retail giant Target’s chief executive Brian Cornell on Tuesday played down Amazon’s massive deal to acquire grocery chain Whole Foods, arguing that it “validates” his company’s business model. “It wasn’t a surprise that that deal took place,” Cornell told a forum at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Colorado. …
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An imaging satellite and 72 micro-satellites were launched into orbit on Friday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Russian space agency Roscosmos and research centre Glavcosmos announced. The Soyuz 2-1A rocket successfully lifted off at 0643 GMT with the satellite payload, Roscosmos said in a statement. According to Russian …
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Once nearly thrown out with the trash, a bag that Neil Armstrong used to collect the first ever samples of the moon goes on sale in New York next week, valued at $2-4 million. Traces of moon dust and small rock are embedded in what is the only artefact from …
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MIAMI, United States – An unmanned NASA spacecraft is about to fly over a massive storm raging on Jupiter, in a long-awaited a journey that could shed new light on the forces driving the planet’s Great Red Spot. #Juno set for closest *ever* flyby of #Jupiter‘s #GRS! (Photo by …
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By now most of us have learned first-hand that human-AI relations need some work. Amazon’s Alexa personal assistant is plugged into one of the world’s largest online stores and can pull information from Wikipedia. But can it help you when you yell out what in the moment feels like …
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One thing that makes ISIS so hard to fight is that the terrorist network is diffuse and scattered, with small cells of operatives all over the world. Not only does this make it hard for law enforcement to predict where the group might strike next; it makes it incredibly …
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A growing chorus of voices denouncing sexist culture is echoing through male-dominated Silicon Valley, knocking a number of internet industry executives from their perches. Accusations concerning the lack of women in tech jobs and unfair, or downright crude, treatment endured by some in the industry have simmered for years, occasionally …
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WASHINGTON – Google parent Alphabet is spinning off a little-known unit working on geothermal power called Dandelion, which will begin offering residential energy services. The announcement on Thursday took the wraps off one of the secretive projects at the Alphabet unit X, known notably for its work on self-driving …
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The Kardashian-Jenner clan’s social-media savvy is a simple matter of data. All told, they have almost half a billion followers on Instagram alone. (“All told” meaning, of course: Kardashian sisters Kim, Kourtney, and Khloe; matriarch Kris; ex-spouse/step-mapa Caitlyn Jenner; Jenner spawn Kendall and Kylie; and the lone Kardashian male, …
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This close-up of the sun shows churning solar plasma, manipulated by magnetic forces. The arch visible in the image, at the sun’s edge, has risen at multiple times Earth’s size. On July 3, the SpaceX Dragon capsule reentered Earth’s atmosphere, landing in the Pacific Ocean. In this image, NASA …
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