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Bill Gates: Technological innovation can help end hunger

September 13, 2022 mohmad free

Bill Gates says the global hunger crisis is so massive that food aid cannot fully address the problem. What’s also needed, Gates argues, are the kinds of innovations in farming technology he has long funded to try to reverse the crisis documented in a report released by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on Tuesday. Gates, in particular, points to a breakthrough he calls “magic seeds,” crops engineered to adapt to climate change and resist agricultural pests. The Gates Foundation on Tuesday also released a map showing how climate change…

Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket falls after takeoff; There are no injured, the capsule carrying the experiments is safe

September 13, 2022 mohmad free

A rocket crashed back to Earth shortly after takeoff on Monday in Jeff Bezos’ space travel company’s first launch, but the capsule carrying experiments managed to parachute down to safety. No one was on board the Blue Origin flight, which used the same type of rocket as the one that sends paying customers to the edge of space. The FAA said the missiles are now grounded pending the outcome of the investigation. The New Shepard missile was barely a minute into its flight from West Texas when bright yellow flames…

Elon Musk presents a sealed defense as Twitter’s trial is set for October 17

July 30, 2022 mohmad free

The lawsuit brought by Twitter Inc. against Elon Musk over a five-day, $44 billion purchase of the social media platform starting Oct. 17 in Delaware, as the billionaire presents his defense and counterclaims under seal. Delaware District Judge Kathleen St. J. McCormick has set a trial date after Musk’s lawyers alleged that Twitter wanted an October 10 start date “without justification.” Twitter said it was not against October 17 as long as it was confirmed with a full five-day trial. Meanwhile, Musk’s legal team also submitted its official answer and…

SpaceX Starship’s booster ‘maybe’ back on the pillow after explosion – Elon Musk

July 14, 2022 mohmad free

The company’s CEO, Elon Musk, told Reuters that the booster Starship rocket that SpaceX plans to use on its inaugural flight into orbit will “probably” return to the launch pad in Texas next week after a test explosion on Monday. “The damage is minor, but the booster will be moved to High Bay for inspections, and will likely return to the launch pad next week,” Musk said in an email. The booster, the towering first half of SpaceX’s next-generation Starship rocket system, was undergoing pre-launch tests on a rig Monday…

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet, says Google will slow hiring for the rest of the year

July 13, 2022 mohmad free

CEO Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc. He plans to slow hiring for the remainder of the year in the face of a possible economic downturn. Pichai said the company will focus on hiring “engineering, technical and other critical roles” in 2022 and 2023, according to a copy of the email seen by Bloomberg News. “To move forward, we need to be more entrepreneurial, operate with greater urgency, sharper focus, and hungrier than we showed on sunny days,” Pichai wrote. “In some cases, that means consolidation where investments overlap and…

Sheryl Sandberg is stepping down from the parent company of Facebook

June 2, 2022 mohmad free

When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg hired a Google executive named Sheryl Sandberg in his social network in 2008, he said he hired her because she “has the most relevant industry experience with Facebook, especially as we need to scale our operations and expand our global reach.” Sandberg replied similarly. “The opportunity to help another young company grow into a global leader is the opportunity of a lifetime,” she said at the time. Zuckerberg was 23, and Sandberg was 38. Today, Zuckerberg is the same age that Sandberg was when he…

‘Jack off the board’: Elon Musk says Jack Dorsey is off the Twitter board

May 27, 2022 mohmad free

Elon Musk said Thursday that former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is not a member of the company’s board of directors anymore. In a follow-up tweet, Musk noted that the decision was made by Dorsey, and added that he “admired” the entrepreneur. “I’m a fan of Jack btw. I wish he’d stayed on the board, but I understand he needs to move on,” Musk wrote in a tweet. Jack off the board! The best of Express Premium Expensive Expensive Expensive Expensive – Elon Musk 26 May 2022 Media reports have said…

Elon Musk says he can ‘no longer support’ Democrats, will vote Republican

May 19, 2022 mohmad free

Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday that while he has voted for Democrats in the past, he will now vote for Republicans. “In the past I voted Democrats, because they were (mostly) the party of kindness. But they became the party of division and hate, so I could no longer support them and I would vote Republican.” Musk, the richest man in the world said, I agreed to buy Twitter Inc. The 50-year-old billionaire recently said he would Reversal of Twitter’s ban on former US President Donald Trump, Republican,…

Twitter CEO faces employee fury over Musk attacks at company-wide meeting

April 30, 2022 mohmad free

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal sought to calm employee anger Friday during a company-wide meeting where employees demanded answers about how managers plan to deal with the expected mass exodus called by Elon Musk. The meeting comes after Tesla CEO Musk, who struck a $44 billion deal to buy the social media company, repeatedly criticized Twitter’s content-modifying practices and the top executive responsible for setting speech and safety policies. At an internal city council meeting, heard by Reuters, executives said the company would be monitoring staffing attrition daily, but that it…