Scientists want to control individual molecules so precisely they could snap them together like Lego pieces. Now they’re a little bit closer.
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- Corporations now rule the world, and one of them is Apple.
- With the company’s record-breaking cash hoard swelling to almost $300 billion, there’s not a lot the Cupertino tech giant couldn’t do.
In the science fiction flick Incorporated, a post-apocalyptic future world is no longer run by nation-states but by corporation-states, each acting in the best interests of the company. Such a future doesn’t seem that far or farfetched now, especially if one considers just how big the world’s most powerful corporations are.
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The small EU nation has made big steps into the digital future with the Estonian eResidency and eID programs. Government and private sector services are now delivered securely online and worldwide entrepreneurs are starting companies virtually in Estonia. But the country’s president sees challenges ahead for countries around the globe as the nature of work transforms and it becomes difficult to tax income using traditional geographic models.
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Microsoft is holding an event this month, the company announced tonight, at which it says it will “show the world what’s next.” The event will take place in Shanghai on May 23rd, but Microsoft didn’t specify either the precise location of the event or exactly what it will be showing. The company did tell The Verge to expect new hardware, however.
There are some additional clues to that new hardware to be gleaned from social media. Panos Panay — Microsoft’s vice president of devices and the creator of the Surface — tweeted the announcement alongside the hashtag “#Surface.” The tag, and Panay’s planned attendance in Shanghai, could mean that Microsoft is ready to show off the Surface Pro 5.
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It has been an eventful 12 months for SpaceX. Many successful launches were interspersed with a high-profile test failure which led to the loss of the Spacecom satellite, AMOS 6, making headlines across the world, far beyond the traditional coverage of space publications. However, the launch service provider is dusting itself off and ready to go again with some hugely ambitious targets in 2017.
Mark Holmes
On September 1, 2016, at Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, SpaceX observed an anomaly about eight minutes in advance of a scheduled test firing of a Falcon 9 rocket. This resulted in the loss of Spacecom’s Amos 6 satellite. It was headline news around the world.
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