Spacewalking cosmonauts inspect mysterious hole in ISS

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Spacewalking cosmonauts inspect mysterious hole in ISS Expedition 57 flight engineers Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev of the Russian federal space agency Roscosmos conducted a 7-hour and 45-minute spacewalk, working on the exterior of the Russian Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft. Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergey Prokopyev completed a spacewalk lasting 7 hours and 45 minutes to […]

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UK Government pledges £100m for renewable energy projects in Africa

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UK Government pledges £100m for renewable energy projects in AfricaThe new investment triples funds for the Renewable Energy Performance Platform to support up to 40 more renewable energy projects over the next five years. The Government says the funding could unlock an extra £156m of private finance into renewable energy markets in Africa by 2023. The […]

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Finalcad, the mobile platform for the construction industry, raises $40M Series C

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Finalcad, the mobile platform for the construction industry, raises $40M Series CFinalcad, a mobile platform that enables the construction industry to digitize much of its processes, has closed $40 million in Series C funding. The round was led by publicly listed London venture capital firm Draper Esprit, and Cathay Innovation, with the support of Salesforce […]

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Wandelbots raises $6.8M to make programming a robot as easy as putting on a jacket

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Wandelbots raises $6.8M to make programming a robot as easy as putting on a jacketIndustrial robotics is on track to be worth around $20 billion by 2020, but while it may something in common with other categories of cutting-edge tech — innovative use of artificial intelligence, pushing the boundaries of autonomous machines that are disrupting […]

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Volvo Trucks teases the all-electric semi truck it’s bringing to California in 2019

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Volvo Trucks teases the all-electric semi truck it’s bringing to California in 2019Volvo Trucks released teaser images Wednesday of the electric trucks it plans to bring to California next year as part of a demonstration project, the latest truck manufacturer to publicize its electric plans in the state. The attraction to California is no accident. […]

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Lazada, Alibaba’s Southeast Asia e-commerce business, gets a new CEO

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Lazada, Alibaba’s Southeast Asia e-commerce business, gets a new CEOAlibaba has reshuffled the leadership at Lazada, its e-commerce firm in Southeast Asia, after CEO Lucy Peng — an original Alibaba co-founder — stepped down to be replaced by Lazada executive president Pierre Poignant after just nine months in the role. Alibaba owns more than 90 percent of […]

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Pokémon GO trainer battles are now live (for some players)

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Pokémon GO trainer battles are now live (for some players)Last week we did a deep dive on how Pokémon GO’s new (and long overdue) player-versus-player battle system would work. The only thing we didn’t know at the time was when, exactly, it would actually start rolling out. The answer: tonight. Just a few days ago, […]

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