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Struggling electric vehicle company Canoo spent twice as much on its CEO's private jet as it pulled in last year
The troubled EV company paid $1.7 million for CEO Tony Aquila's flights last year. Canoo brought in…
Shubhangi Goel
Founder of Facebook's secretive Aquila drone project leaves as internal emails reveal significant new direction
An email exchange in April 2017 indicated that Facebook was intending to build a hangar as recently…
Rob Price
Facebook wants to help India in providing internet access in remote areas. Here’s how
Facebook wants to use its solar-powered plane -‘Aquila’- to provide the infrastructure needed to of…
Zuckerberg's new set of tools: See what Facebook will build at its new super lab in the next 10yrs
Facebook is not just about writing codes anymore, it is now looking at building physical products f…
Watch the successful first flight of Aquila - Facebook's solar-powered internet beaming drone
Aquila is a key part of Facebook's Internet.org campaign, which aims to bring "the next billi…
Sicily's 'last godfather' said he followed 'an old Jewish saying' to avoid capture for 30 years, report says
Matteo Messina Denaro, a mafia boss, hid in plain sight in a Sicilian town while on the run for 30 …
Rebecca Rommen
Germany, Italy, and Japan had big plans for aircraft carriers to turn the tide of WWII, but they never made it into battle
At the start of World War II, many navies envisioned flattops in a supporting role for battleships.…
Benjamin Brimelow
Canoo surges 107% after the EV maker inks deal to sell up to 10,000 delivery vehicles to Walmart
The deal could be a course correction for the electric vehicle maker, which reported a steep loss i…
Jennifer Sor
4 auto experts share their takeaways from 3rd-quarter woes at Rivian, Lucid, and Canoo and what they expect for the end of 2022
Electric-vehicle startups reported another challenging quarter. Here's what experts have to say abo…
Nora Naughton,Alexa St. John
Check out Walmart's new fleet of electric delivery vans
The Canoo vehicles are specially "engineered for high frequency stop-and-go deliveries" and "speedy…
Áine Cain
Best ukuleles for beginners and professionals
So if you’re planning to get a ukulele, here’s a list with some of the best options.
The survival of small businesses in American college towns is being threatened as restaurants, bars, and bookstores are stuck hoping students return to campus this fall
If students don't return to campuses this fall or return in lesser numbers, local businesses face t…
Jessica Snouwaert
Bubbles filled with thousands of stars found in the Milky Way
The size of these bubbles is decided by the wind and radiation coming from the young and massi…
Facebook tested plane-mounted lasers that fire super high-speed internet over California - here are the photos
The details of the tests were disclosed in an academic journal in February 2018 but have not otherw…
Rob Price
I left NYC to work remotely in Colombia for almost 2 months. I loved it so much I plan to do it every year.
Andrea Capodilupo says she ate out for every meal in Medellín for $5 to $20 a day and worked from c…
Andrea Capodilupo
Facebook secretly explored building bird-sized drones to ferry data to people with bad internet connections
The efforts illustrate how Facebook has been exploring out-of-the-box concepts in its attempts to c…
Rob Price
Facebook is ditching its plans to build its own drones
Facebook's blog post comes after Business Insider revealed earlier on Tuesday that the Aquila proje…
Rob Price
Facebook's internet-beaming drone has completed its second test flight over Arizona
Facebook plans to use the drone to beam internet access to unconnected parts of the world. With two…
Alex Heath
We now know why Facebook's enormous internet-beaming drone mysteriously crashed
"During the final approach, the aircraft encountered an increasing amount of turbulence and wind sp…
Alex Heath
One of Facebook's enormous internet-spreading drones crashed
The Aquila drones are huge, with 43-meter wingspans - bigger than a Boeing 737. They're designed to…