Mitsubishi Heavy Industries resets ISS mission H-IIB rocket launch for September 24 – TechCrunch
by Darrell Etherington | September 21, 2019 | News | 0 Comments
After a setback last week due to a fire on the launch pad, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) is ready to take another shot at its HTV-8 mission to deliver supplies and other payloads to the International Space Station. The launch was originally scheduled for...
At TechCrunch Disrupt, insights into key trends in venture capital – TechCrunch
by Kate Clark | September 20, 2019 | News | 0 Comments
At TechCrunch Disrupt, the original tech startup conference, venture capitalists remain amongst the premier guests. VCs are responsible for helping startups — the focus of the three-day event — get off the ground, and, as such, they are often the most familiar...
Amazon Prime adds free mobile game content to its perks, starting with PUBG Mobile – TechCrunch
by Sarah Perez | September 20, 2019 | News | 0 Comments
Amazon today is introducing a new perk for Prime members: free mobile game content. The company, which already offers Twitch Prime benefits through its subsidiary, will now give its Prime members various in-game items for PUBG Mobile, the popular battle royale...
Ten questions for 2020 presidential candidate Tom Steyer – TechCrunch
by Brian Heater | September 20, 2019 | News | 0 Comments
In November 2020, America will go to the polls to vote in perhaps the most consequential election in a generation. The winner will lead the country amid great social, economic and ecological unrest. The 2020 election will be a referendum on both the current...
‘Am I as brave as I think I am?’ MIT Media Lab student Arwa Mboya on the aftermath of a scandal – TechCrunch
by Arman Tabatabai | September 20, 2019 | News | 0 Comments
It’s been another hard week at MIT. Our campus has been divided by revelations of inappropriate fundraising, coverups, and the harboring of far too many tech geniuses who seemingly put their own interests and careers over the safety of women, among other...
Want to crush competitors? Forget SoftBank, Blackstone suggests; it can write $500 million checks, too – TechCrunch
by Connie Loizos | September 20, 2019 | News | 0 Comments
Back in January, Blackstone — the investment firm whose assets under management surpassed a jaw-dropping half a trillion dollars earlier this year — quietly began piecing together a new, growth equity platform called Blackstone Growth, or BXG. Step one was...
U.S. dollar to be main currency underpinning Facebook’s Libra: Spiegel
by The Editor | September 20, 2019 | News | 0 Comments
FILE PHOTO: U.S. one hundred dollar notes are seen in this picture illustration taken in Seoul February 7, 2011. REUTERS/Lee Jae-Won/File PhotoBERLIN (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar will make up 50% of the basket of currencies backing Facebook’s planned digital...
Here are the security sessions you can’t miss at Disrupt SF – TechCrunch
by Zack Whittaker | September 20, 2019 | News | 0 Comments
Security is in everything, it’s everywhere and it’s everyone’s responsibility. What part are you playing? At TechCrunch Disrupt SF on October 2-4, we’re proud to have onstage some of the smartest security executives and highest-ranking officials ready to talk...
‘Inside Bill’s Brain’ Calls BS on Malcolm Gladwell’s ‘Outliers’ Theory
by Steven Levy | September 20, 2019 | News | 0 Comments
If there was ever an outlier, it was Bill Gates. Netflix has just released a three-part documentary called Inside Bill's Brain that, as the title promises, digs deep into the Microsoft cofounder's cranium. Once ensconced, we find him as unusual as we expected....
U.S. trade regulators approve some Apple tariff exemptions amid broader reprieve
by The Editor | September 20, 2019 | News | 0 Comments
(Reuters) - U.S. trade regulators on Friday approved 10 out of 15 requests for tariff exemptions filed by Apple Inc amid a broader reprieve on levies on computer parts, according to a public docket published by the U.S. Trade Representative and a Federal...
