Leave Jeff Bezos in space? Petitions attract 110,000 signatures

Jeff Bezos in India

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and Blue Origin, laughs while traveling to India in 2020. (Jeff Bezos via Twitter) Between an upswing in cartel talks and questions about employee turnover, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has a lot to fear here on earth. His plans to go suborbitally next month in a rocket ship built by … Read more

Lidar company Quanergy to go public via $1.4B SPAC deal – TechCrunch

Lidar company Quanergy to go public via $1.4B SPAC deal – TechCrunch

Quanergy Systems, the Sunnyvale, Calif.-Based lidar company, announced Tuesday that it had entered into a merger with CITIC Capital Acquisition Corp. has agreed, a Chinese blank check firm affiliated with the country’s largest state-owned investment conglomerate. The transaction, which implicitly values ​​Quanergy at $ 1.4 billion, is expected to close in the second half of … Read more

COVID recovery could include lingering mental health concerns

Antolin „Kiko“ Ojeda posiert mit seiner Frau und seinem Sohn.  Ojeda hat seit seiner Genesung vom Coronavirus im Herbst psychische Probleme.

MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin – Antolin „Kiko“ Ojeda ist seit 2016 clean, aber es wird schwieriger für ihn, nüchtern zu bleiben, seit er sich vom Coronavirus erholt hat, sagt er. „Meine psychische Gesundheit scheint zusammengebrochen zu sein“, sagte Ojeda. „Wo ich alles richtig gut im Griff hatte … ist es fast so, als würde ich noch einmal … Read more

Oculus loses one of its first in-app VR ad partners following backlash

Saqib Shah

Barely a week has passed since Facebook began testing ads in Oculus apps, and the initiative has run into trouble. On Monday, one of the few developers involved in the first ad experiment said it was withdrawing from the test. Resolution Games tweeted that it had decided that in-app advertising for its multiplayer shooter game, … Read more

Covid-19 Updates: Colombia Surpasses 100,000 Deaths as Virus Pummels South America

Covid-19 Updates: Colombia Surpasses 100,000 Deaths as Virus Pummels South America

Here’s what you need to know: Relatives of Covid-19 victims spread their ashes at the natural reserve of Paramo de Guerrero in Cogua municipality, near Bogota on Monday.Credit…Raul Arboleda/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Colombia, where a surging coronavirus and a dearth of vaccines have led to widespread protests, has surpassed 100,000 recorded Covid-19 deaths, just … Read more

Why NBA superstar Steph Curry just invested in Seattle pay equity startup Syndio

Why NBA superstar Steph Curry just invested in Seattle pay equity startup Syndio

NBA star Stephen Curry. (Aubrie Pick photo) Seattle-based pay equity startup Syndio has raised more than $ 30 million in funding in its four years, but a new $ 1 million support from early-stage investors Penny Jar Capital announced on Monday is special notable because the company is anchored by NBA star Stephen Curry. Curry … Read more

Tortillas thrown at Latino team after California prep basketball game

Tortillas thrown at Latino team after California prep basketball game

A school district in the San Diego area apologized for a post-game basketball incident in which tortillas were thrown at a team at a primarily Latin American high school. The incident came after a championship game between Orange Glen and Coronado on Saturday, which Coronado won on his home team 60:57 in overtime. After the … Read more

Facebook’s entry into VR advertising isn’t going too well – TechCrunch

Facebook’s entry into VR advertising isn’t going too well – TechCrunch

Facebook’s efforts to bring advertising to the Oculus virtual reality platform, which has billions of dollars spent building it, doesn’t seem like a good start. The company announced last week that it plans to launch its first in-game ads within the Blaston title of prolific VR game developer Resolution Games, and just days later the … Read more

In N.C.A.A. Case, Supreme Court Backs Payments to Student-Athletes

In N.C.A.A. Case, Supreme Court Backs Payments to Student-Athletes

In April, NCAA president Mark Emmert said he was looking for “clarity about what the law is, clarity about who is responsible for what, clarity about how these issues will be resolved, whether through congressional processes, legal process or through.” “NCAA decision-making processes.” In Monday’s ruling, Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, who wrote for the court, … Read more