SpaceX wants to expand facilities in Florida to refurbish and store its reusable rocket boosters as it increases the pace of launches, documents filed with authorities show. The privately owned rocket company, operated by entrepreneur Elon Musk, proposes building a 67,222-square-foot (6,245-square meter) hangar just south of its Cape Canaveral launch sites to prepare recovered […]
Read moreShipping giant A.P. Moller-Maersk, which handles one out of seven containers shipped globally, said a cyberattack had caused outages at its computer systems across the world on Tuesday. The attack came as computer servers across Europe and in India were hit by a major ransomware attack. “We can confirm that Maersk IT systems are down […]
Read moreIt’s a good thing actor Ashton Kutcher found his way into venture capital and tech. Kutcher thinks actors could be “automated” out of work, just like everyone else, thanks to advances in artificial intelligence. “It’s not like this is ‘in the future,'” he told CNBC on Monday. “It’s happening right now. Just look at the […]
Read moreInteresting sports/media/internet news: Starting this summer, one of the country’s biggest cable programmers will let people stream one of the world’s most popular sports — without paying for cable. Instead, NBCUniversal’s NBC Sports unit is going to offer a direct-to-consumer subscription package that will let soccer fans watch live games from the Premier League, the […]
Read moreElon Musk is talking to Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel about the possibility of digging a tunnel from the city’s downtown area to Chicago O’Hare airport, according to the Chicago Tribune. Emanuel has called the discussions “preliminary,” according to the Tribune. The mayor is exploring various options for developing a high speed rail line in Chicago, […]
Read moreFresh off a recent victory at Buffalo Wild Wings, activist investor Mick McGuire is ramping up his campaign at Deckers Outdoor Corporation, the parent company of Ugg. McGuire is laying out an ultimatum for Deckers, saying that if the company’s strategic review process doesn’t lead to a sale, he’ll seek to replace the entire board. […]
Read moreWhen it’s 35 degrees in Tahoe with fresh powder accumulating by the hour, a 4-1/2-year-old boy should be overjoyed. My son Theo wasn’t. He was miserable. It was Presidents’ Day weekend. I was with my wife Anne, Theo and his younger brother Hugo in South Lake Tahoe, about 200 miles from our home in the […]
Read moreSalesforce‘s stock has a lot of runway ahead of it and could easily double within the next three years, tech fund manager Josh Spencer told CNBC on Tuesday. “This is the biggest position in my fund. It’s close to 15 percent of the fund right now, and I think it’s got a lot of upside […]
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Nvidia, the market’s best-performing stock, is going to launch graphics cards specifically designed for cryptocurrency mining through its partners. Product listings for Nvidia-based and AMD-based cryptocurrency mining cards recently appeared on the website of ASUS, a leading maker of graphics cards. “ASUS Mining P106 is designed for coin mining with high-efficiency components – delivering maximum […]
Read moreFacebook now has 2 billion monthly users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday. The milestone comes as Zuckerberg has revealed a new mission for the social network over the past few months. The company, which in the past had focused on connecting the world, is now shifting slightly toward bringing the world closer, a sentiment […]
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