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FundUp: Health content portal Modasta raises $1.5M, Computational genomics company Phosphorus secures $10M & More
Phosphorus is building a genomic data network that will help providers,
researchers, and patients a…
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Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post won't endorse a presidential candidate this year
Former Washington Post executive editor Marty Baron called the decision "a moment of darkness that …
Geoff Weiss
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We booked 2 weeks at an all-inclusive resort but hated it. After 3 nights, we left to create a better vacation.
We felt bored and trapped after three days in our all-inclusive resort. Our trip improved once we l…
Melissa Noble
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Bitcoin miners got kicked out of China. Now they're sucking America dry.
Chinese-owned bitcoin mines are popping up in rural towns across the US. And they require massive a…
Taylor Dorrell
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Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin passes 4 key milestones for its $172 million NASA contract to build a new space station
NASA awarded Blue Origin $130 million to build the Orbital Reef space station that will be a destin…
Ellyn Lapointe,Jessica Orwig,…
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Trump's 'gobbledygook' math has lowballed, for a decade, how many fish he kills to cool his Chicago tower: AG
Every month, Trump tells Illinois how much Chicago River water he's using to cool his tower. His en…
Laura Italiano
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The Goldman prodigy behind Silicon Valley's glorious city of the future
Jan Sramek believes the solution to the housing crisis is to build a new city from scratch —…
Hugh Langley,Adam Rogers
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin unveils plans for Orbital Reef, a 'business park' in outer space
Take a look at Blue Origin's sketches for a space station that could house a crew of 10 people, as …
Grace Kay
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A single wildfire last summer destroyed at least 10% of the world's giant sequoia trees, a new report found
Researchers determined that last August's Castle Fire destroyed between 7,500 and 10,000 of the mas…
Erin Snodgrass
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An economist shares 3 policies that can reverse income inequality — and what the US can learn from them
Other capitalist countries have actively tried to reduce inequality through policy change — and suc…
Paul Constant
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Meet the Bill Gates-backed startup that pulled in $33 million in fundraising to help turn your trash into fuel
But in 2016, the company received backing (to the tune of $57 million, according to the Sacramento …
Benji Jones,Benji Jones
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Here's what William Shatner would have seen on his trip to space aboard Blue Origin as his new book says it 'felt like a funeral'
Star Trek star William Shatner described the void of actual space as "ominous darkness," though he …
Taylor Rains
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GM will spend $2 billion reinventing one of its famous factories to build the new Cadillac Lyriq EV
GM had earlier announced a $2.2 billion investment to shift its Hamtramck factory to all-electric p…
Matthew DeBord
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Sequoia Capital founder Don Valentine has died at age 87
Valentine graduated from Fordham University before moving to the San Francisco Bay Area to work for…
Megan Hernbroth
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Contestants say the Miss USA 2022 pageant was rigged, and the entire organization is descending into chaos
After Miss Texas, R'Bonney Gabriel, won Miss USA 2022, multiple contestants said the pageant was ri…
Anneta Konstantinides
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Tilray's war chest
Welcome to Insider Cannabis, where we're bringing you an inside look at the deals, trends, and pers…
Jeremy Berke,Yeji Jesse Lee
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How child-free 'Disney adults' are transforming the company's theme parks as Disney pours $60 billion into the division
"Disney adults" used to be the butt of the joke. Now millennials and Gen Z-ers without kids are flo…
Reed Alexander
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The Latin American startup Yalochat just raised $15 million for its Salesforce and ServiceNow-competitor that lets users chat with customers over WhatsApp
Yalochat wants to take on Salesforce and ServiceNow by making it easier for companies to manage cus…
Rosalie Chan
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Silicon Valley's top biotech VCs share the biggest mistakes startups make when they pitch
But accomplishing these goals requires laying practical groundwork. In healthcare, that could mean …
Erin Brodwin
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A definitive ranking of the best and worst dressed executives in Silicon Valley
Business Insider pored through photos of the top executives in the world of tech to determine who h…