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SpaceX Sells 10% Stake to Google, Fidelity for $1 Billion

Space Exploration Technologies Corp., the rocket maker run by billionaire Elon Musk, said that Google Inc. and Fidelity Investments have invested $1 billion that will give them a combined stake of almost 10 percent.

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Animal Welfare at Risk in Experiments for Meat Industry

In the past 50 years, lamb chops have gotten bigger, pork loins less fatty and steaks easier to chew — all thanks in part to the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center. But these achievements have come at a steep cost to the center’s animals.

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Hasnain says:

" Roger Ellis, a scientist and veterinarian who now works for a cattle nutrition company, said that when he determined about 10 years ago that a sheep had died at least in part from neglect, a center official pressed him to “soften the diagnosis.” Dr. Ellis said that he refused, and that the center had an outside veterinarian change the death record."

Posted on 2015-01-20T17:56:08+0000

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Google Nears $1 Billion Investment in SpaceX

Google Inc. is close to investing roughly $1 billion in Space Exploration Technologies Corp. to support its nascent efforts to deliver Internet access via satellites.

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Hasnain says:

" Here are two helpful guidelines (for largely disjoint populations):

If you are going to use a big data system for yourself, see if it is faster than your laptop.
If you are going to build a big data system for others, see that it is faster than my laptop."

Posted on 2015-01-17T01:31:31+0000

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