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Suborbital space tourism finally arrives | FCC prepares to run public C-band auction | The big four in the U.S. launch industry — United Launch Alliance, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman — hope to be one of two providers that will receive five-year contracts later this year to launch national security payloads starting in 2022. | China’s launch rate stays high | The International Space Station is the largest ever crewed object in space.

Pentagon City park expansion approved in preparation...

An overview of what Pentagon City’s Metropolitan Park in Arlington, Virginia, is expected to look like after redevelopment. (Courtesy Arlington County) Pentagon City’s Metropolitan Park in Arlington County, Virginia, will soon be transformed as the area prepares to welcome Amazon’s forthcoming HQ2 campus. The Arlington County Board unanimously voted to approve a park master plan and design guidelines for the 2.47-acre public park on Saturday night. Metropolitan Park’s renovations are part of Amazon’s community benefits package and will be…

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Khudobin, Stars beat Knights to take 3-1...

EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Anton Khudobin made three of his 32 saves on a crucial 5-on-3 penalty kill late, Joe Pavelski and Jamie Benn scored in the second period and the Dallas Stars are a victory away from the Stanley Cup Final after beating the Vegas Golden Knights 2-1 Saturday night in Game 4. Dallas pushed Vegas to the brink of elimination despite being outshot 33-20. The Stars have 92 shots to the Golden Knights’ 130, yet lead the…

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Check out these Breakout Sessions at Disrupt...

We’re on the brink of the biggest Disrupt in TechCrunch history. It’s five days of education, exhibition, competition and connection that spans the globe. As you plan your schedule, keep this in mind: You’ll find some of the most insightful and downright interesting programming at Disrupt 2020 in our Breakout Sessions. And that, given our powerhouse agenda, is saying something. Every Disrupt attendee can take part in the breakout sessions — they’re open to every pass level. Breakouts cover……

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Is the vaunted cloud acceleration falling flat?

Welcome back to The TechCrunch Exchange, a weekly startups-and-markets newsletter. It’s broadly based on the daily column that appears on Extra Crunch, but free, and made for your weekend reading.  Ready? Let’s talk money, startups and spicy IPO rumors. Is the vaunted cloud acceleration falling flat? This week we’re taking a look at the bad side of the cloud software market. In case you were avoiding the news over the last week, tech and software stocks are struggling. Not……

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Yelich scores on Braun’s fly in 9th,...

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Christian Yelich scored on Ryan Braun’s ninth-inning sacrifice fly, Brandon Woodruff pitched seven innings of one-hit ball and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Chicago Cubs 1-0 on Friday night as they tried to climb back into playoff contention. Woodruff, Devin Williams and Josh Hader (1-1) combined on a two-hitter with 16 strikeouts. Coming off a 19-0 rout of Detroit, Milwaukee pitchers extended their scoreless streak to 19 innings . The Brewers have pitched consecutive shutouts for…

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Combat vet killed by Texas deputy buried...

MONTEVALLO, Ala. (AP) — His Army stint complete after serving in Afghanistan, Damian Daniels left Alabama to begin a new life in Texas. He bought a house, enrolled in college and supported the Black Lives Matter movement. Black himself, Daniels was working to start a new business when paranoid hallucinations began last month and a brother sought help from police. Shot dead by officers who were sent to aid him, Daniels was buried Friday on Sept. 11, the anniversary…

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Extra Crunch Friday roundup: Edtech funding surges,...

I live in San Francisco, but I work an East Coast schedule to get a jump on the news day. So I’d already been at my desk for a couple of hours on Wednesday morning when I looked up and saw this: As unsettling as it was to see the natural environment so transformed, I still got my work done. This is not to boast: I have a desk job and a working air filter. (People who make deliveries……

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Unicorn layoffs prompt more startups to consider...

Alex Zajaczkowski was just months into her role at Toast, a restaurant point-of-sale software company, when she was let go during COVID-19 layoffs. Toast, last valued at $5 billion, cut 50% of its staff through layoffs and furloughs. Zajaczkowski said she started applying for jobs within a week. “I think I got on the boat a little bit quicker than others because I wanted that security a little bit faster,” she said. She and former Toast colleagues formed a……

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Daily Crunch: Apple revises App Store rules

Apple’s making App Store changes, China might stop TikTok’s acquisition and we talk to Polish venture capitalists about the startup scene. This is your Daily Crunch for September 11, 2020. The big story: Apple revises App Store rules Apple announced a bunch of changes to its App Store guidelines today, with details about how it will support new iOS features like App Clips and much more. For one thing, it sounds like the App Store will now support game-streaming……

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A user’s guide to Disrupt 2020

We’re coming down to the wire folks. Disrupt 2020 officially opens its virtual doors September 14 for five super-charged days of everything the early-stage startup community needs to build better, faster, stronger. Going virtual translates into a global reach making this our largest Disrupt ever. Yowza! There’s a lot going on during this Disrupt — talk about a vast understatement — including a jam-packed agenda (with time zone-friendly programming for attendees in Europe and Asia), a virtual venue, new……

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MIT releases financials and endowment figures for...

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Investment Management Company (MITIMCo) announced today that MIT’s unitized pool of endowment and other MIT funds generated an investment return of 8.3 percent during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, as measured using valuations received within one month of fiscal year end. At the end of the fiscal year, MIT’s endowment funds totaled $18.4 billion, excluding pledges. MIT’s endowment is intended to support current and future generations of MIT scholars with the resources……

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Make the Midwest’s Award-Winning State-Fair Foods at...

Beth Campbell remembers long days working on various family farms as a child. Along with her parents and siblings, as well as her aunts, uncles, and cousins, she would go from one farm to the next to help with the daily chores. Along with milking cows before and after school, she’d often find herself grinding green tomatoes in a large cement basement. But the work was not without rewards: Her mother and grandmother would transform the fruits of her……

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The Site of Yatate Hajime in Adachi...

One of the most renowned poets from Japan‘s Edo period (1603–1868), Matsuo Bashō is known for his travelogue Oku no Hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North), a collection of the haiku he read on his half-year, 1,500-mile-long journey from Tokyo to the north and back.  As such, there are many historic sites related to Bashō across Japan, and although not the among the most famous of these, the Site of Yatate Hajime in the Senju area cannot go unmentioned. The……

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Vicolo Inferno in Imola, Italy

It is the year 1504, Cesare Borgia has fallen and Imola, his headquarters, is wracked by violence. Two families, as in many Italian stories, are facing each other: Sassatelli and Vaini (corresponding to the Guelfi and Ghibellini factions).  The boss of Sassatelli is Giovanni, known as “Il Cagnaccio,” meaning a bad or threatening dog but also a violent, treacherous,  cruel person. Il Cagnaccio is feared by everybody, but he and his soldiers are not in town when, at the……

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Los Ángeles and La Cruz Graveyards in...

Although the area may seem like one graveyard to new visitors, La Cruz and Los Ángeles cemeteries are actually two cemeteries barely divided by an old fence.  Both cemeteries feature a striking variety of artistic styles, including paintings, ironworks, and sculptures made from marble as well as pink and yellow quarry stone. Inside, it is easy to get lost in the corridors to find the most unique tombs to which small metal plates have been placed revealing the stories……

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