Bezos is rumored to be among the investors in Altos Labs, a start-up incorporated in Delaware earlier this year. Though the company hasn’t made an official announcement, a securities disclosure filed with California in June said it has raised at least $270 million, according to a story in the MIT …
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With August 31 as the final deadline for Americans to leave Afghanistan, public and private security forces alike are tripping over themselves trying to get their men (and women) out of the country – and some less scrupulous figures are taking cash to expedite the process, according to a Tuesday …
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Exiled pioneer Khalida Popal says she has received desperate calls and videos from women during a turbulent period that culminated in the former rulers of Afghanistan entering the capital, Kabul, to take over again earlier this week. Popal originally fled when the group gained power in 1996 and had been …
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David Mikkelson co-founded Snopes in 1994, and the website has become a key player in the online information wars in recent years. Its supporters see it as a bastion of level-headed truth against an onslaught of partisan “misinformation,” while its detractors see it as yet another biased liberal outlet masquerading …
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“There is a big nasty complex game being played behind the scenes to make the articles say what somebody wants them to say,” Sanger said this week, blasting the current community culture at Wikipedia. “There are all kinds of tricks that people can play to ‘win’ it.” Sanger, who launched …
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Branson made a trip to suborbital space on the Virgin Galactic Unity 22 spaceplane on Sunday, along with fellow passengers Sirisha Bandla, Colin Bennett, and Beth Moses, and pilots David Mackay and Michael Masucci – launching from Spaceport America, New Mexico. The passengers experienced weightlessness as they reached space for …
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During a Lincoln Project virtual town hall on Wednesday, Schmidt claimed that the storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters angry at President Joe Biden’s election victory “was a profoundly more dangerous event” for the “future of the country” than “the 9/11 attacks” which killed nearly 3,000 people, injured thousands …
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Speaking to Moscow-based TV channel Dozhd, Yavlinsky said that his party does not support the activist’s ideas. “Whoever wants to vote for Navalny, don’t vote for us,” he said, noting that it would be deceptive to try and lure backers of the imprisoned, Western-backed protest leader. Yavlinsky founded Yabloko in …
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Having served as France’s finance, foreign and prime minister after World War II, the statesman became best known for proposing economic unity among European nations in the so-called “Schuman Plan” of 1950, which eventually evolved into what is known today as the European Union. In the late 1950s, he served …
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The MyPillow founder and ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump is suing Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic in US District Court in Minneapolis, accusing them of waging a “lawfare campaign.” According to the lawsuit, Dominion and Smartmatic are “weaponizing the judicial system and the litigation process to silence dissent, …
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