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The New York Times
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Kenneth Chang
– May 16, 4:30 PM
SpaceX, the private rocket company founded by Elon Musk, will try again on Thursday evening to launch dozens of satellites at once. Wednesday's attempt to launch Starlink, the company's bid to get into the space-based internet business, was…
Los Angeles Times
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Liam Dillon
– May 16, 11:44 AM
A high-profile bill that would have boosted allowable home building near mass transit and in single-family neighborhoods across California was held in a Senate fiscal committee on Thursday, ending a major battle that has attracted significant…
Buzzy Silicon Valley startup uBiome, which was geared at highlighting the importance of the microbiome for human health, is under federal investigation. The FBI raided the company's San Francisco offices last month, reportedly related to issues…
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II -- who made headlines earlier this year when she published her first Instagram post -- is now looking for someone to bring her even more into the digital age. The Royal Household has posted a job for a digital…
The New York Times
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Anatoly Kurmanaev
– May 17, 8:57 AM
MARACAIBO, Venezuela — Zimbabwe's collapse under Robert Mugabe. The fall of the Soviet Union. Cuba's disastrous unraveling in the 1990s. The crumbling of Venezuela's economy has now outpaced them all. Venezuela's fall is the single largest…
