The newest and most expensive aircraft carrier ever built entered the U.S. Navy fleet Saturday, but almost three years behind schedule and billions of dollars over its estimated budget. With Saturday’s commissioning, the carrier will go back into testing and training, and isn’t expected to be fully operational until 2020 at the earliest. The ship’s […]
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The Jaguar F-Pace is the first SUV in the company’s 80 year history. As we await the arrival of the smaller E-Pace and electric I-Pace SUV, I took a spin in the 2017 Jaguar F-Pace 35t R-sport. I wanted to find out if Jaguar had warmed over a Range Rover, or had managed to make […]
Read moreReelgood, a service that launched earlier this week, combines all the streaming platforms you subscribe to—Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, etc.—and lets you watch them all in one place. Here’s a quick look at how it works: Source: Reelgood Overall, the site is clean. However, the most surprising thing is that tapping a show launches the title […]
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Congress reaches bipartisan agreement on sweeping Russia sanctions that aim to tie Trump's hands
Congressional Democrats announced Saturday that a bipartisan group of House and Senate negotiators have reached an agreement on a sweeping Russia sanctions package to punish Moscow for meddling in the presidential election and its military aggression in Ukraine and Syria. Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 House Democrat, said lawmakers had settled lingering […]
Read moreHarris Markowitz was overjoyed when he was nominated for Shorty Award’s “Snapchatter of the Year” last year. The award show, which honors the best in social media, pitted the 25-year-old against the likes of DJ Khaled, who would later be crowned. Markowitz’s nomination, however, piqued the interest of some major brands like Zillow and Coca-Cola, […]
Read moreFinding less painful and more efficient ways to draw blood is a holy grail for medical entrepreneurs. Seventh Sense Biosystems, a start-up based in Massachusetts, is among the furthest along in this quest. This year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved its TAP device for use in hemoglobin A1C testing. The company claims that […]
Read moreThree times a week, on a quiet block of Stock Island on the Florida Keys, 25,000 of the world’s deadliest creatures are released into the wild. Not to fear. While these are mosquitoes — the creature responsible for more human deaths each year than any other on the planet — they’re all males: It’s only […]
Read moreOn one morning late this spring, dozens of inmates at Solano State Prison in Northern California scurried around the penitentiary’s gym, ready for a life-changing day. They were about to pitch their business ideas to a squad of Silicon Valley’s elite tech leaders and venture capitalists. The prisoners were part of an entrepreneurship program by […]
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