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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.

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Jeanne Guillemin, biological warfare expert and senior...
January 7, 2020
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Jeanne Guillemin, a medical anthropologist and biological warfare expert, died on Nov. 15, 2019, at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was 76. Guillemin received her bachelor’s degree in social psychology from Harvard University in 1968 and her doctorate in sociology and anthropology from Brandeis University in 1973. She was a professor of international relations and anthropology at Boston College, where she taught for 33 years. From 2006 until her death, she served as a senior advisor to the...

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How to stage a revolution
January 7, 2020
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Revolutions are monumental social upheavals that can remake whole nations, dismantling — often violently — old paradigms. But the stories of the epic struggles that leave their mark on the world’s history are frequently fragile, precarious, and idiosyncratic in their details, leaving some key questions only partially understood: Why and how do peoples overthrow their governments? Why do some revolutions succeed and others fail? These are not simple questions, and, for 12 years, MIT students and faculty have set...

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Business lessons from “Ford v. Ferrari”
January 7, 2020
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The new feature film “Ford v. Ferrari,” starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale, recreates Henry Ford II’s scheme to reinvent the Ford Motor Company while simultaneously avenging a bitter rivalry between himself and Enzo Ferrari. Adhering closely to A.J. Baime’s 2009 book “Go Like Hell,” the movie chronicles the company’s outrageous pursuit of designing, building, and racing a car that could beat Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the most prestigious and brutal race in the world. Initially the...

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Razer shows off Sila, the first 5G...
January 7, 2020
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Gaming — with its huge demands on bandwidth, graphics and overall processing power — is likely to be one of the big use cases for 5G networking in the future, and today one of the big players in consumer gaming hardware showed off a 5G router that underscores that trend. Razer, the consumer electronics upstart that has long billed itself as “for gamers, by gamers,” today at CES showed off a new product called the Razer Sila 5G Home...

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Tech-driven change a key priority for new...
January 7, 2020
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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has made responding to technology-driven change a key priority for her five year term which began last month, setting it in the same breath as challenges posed by climate change and demographic shifts, tacitly linking all three to a rise in regional unease. Her solution, set out in a document entitled My Agenda for Europe, is a set of “headline ambitions” for the next five years — which include a Green Deal...

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Union Square Ventures leads legal tech startup...
January 7, 2020
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Juro, a UK startup that’s using machine learning tech and user-centric design to do for contracts what Typeform does for online forms, has caught the eye of Union Square Ventures. The New York-based fund leads a $5 million Series A investment that’s being announced this morning. Also participating in the Series A are existing investors Point Nine Capital, Taavet Hinrikus (co-founder of TransferWise) and Paul Forster (co-founder of Indeed). The round takes Juro’s total raised to-date to $8M, including...

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Branding Sophia: AI vs Human Capital
February 8, 2018
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We have come to a point in our lives where the life of an Artificial Intelligence is worth more than any with a melanin ratio that has been deemed unacceptable. The term “artificial intelligence” (AI)-“referring to the use of computer systems to perform tasks that normally require human understanding…has been around for nearly 60 years. (…) Our increasingly sophisticated understanding of how the human brain works and our ability to embed brain-like elements into computers have engendered such capabilities as...

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10 things that makes Trump Great
December 19, 2017
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| Branding, Entrepreneurship
To make your holidays a bit brighter and less conflicting, I have written this blog in hopes of helping those who will be gathering this holiday to focus on the positive aspects of Trump’s presidency as there are enough negative narratives that have been at times crippling. Understanding that his messaging has been despicable and his words have been hurtful, President Donald J Trump has been a symbol of great awakening and the shock that Americans as well as...

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Critical thinking : The American Brand [...
October 8, 2017
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Eventhough it is multilayered, for the purpose of identifying and attempting to understand what constitutes this country called America, it is important to highlight the past while focusing on what it represents in the 21st century. And for purpose of time and given that I have done my homework, I must refer you to start with one of the many reputable American Institutions that is founded to be “an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge”, the Smithsonian...

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Critical Thinking: The American Brand [ Part...
October 8, 2017
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Eventhough it is multilayered, for the purpose of identifying and attempting to understand what constitutes this country called America, it is important to highlight the past while focusing on what it represents in the 21st century. And for purpose of time and given that I have done my homework, I must refer you to start with one of the many reputable American Institutions that is founded to be “an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge”, the Smithsonian...

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Entrepreneur’s Confession: Input defines your growth
September 21, 2017
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As I just got off the phone with one my colleagues with whom we have been discussing the challenges of the African Diaspora communities given that we both came out of prestigious schools with great academic achievements and having extensive professional experience that we believed should be extended to constituent building with structured engagement; I found myself referring back to one of my writings ” Strategic thinker and tactful executor” I had published on another platform as I was...

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Entrepreneur’s Confession: Your IP is your Value
September 17, 2017
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The most painful thing to experience as an entrepreneur and business owner is to be betrayed by those you trusted enough to share the strategy of your vision to only see it being appropriated. Today was an interesting reminder of this breakable pattern. You see, with my first business, as I was looking to establish partnerships with identified key stakeholders, I laid out my vision to each member while including the ingredients yet always leaving out the special sauce...

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Entrepreneur’s Confession: the 3 factors an entrepreneur...
September 7, 2017
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Since the age of 10 years old, I knew I wanted to own my business though having no one around me who owned their business, I knew I had a long way to go to understand the mechanics of launching, building and sustaining a business that can be institutionalized and of legacy. So I leaped! Before I had even reached puberty, I was merchandising products in a local corner store and by the age of fifteen I was already...

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Africa: China vs America
April 13, 2017
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China in Africa: Where is America?   In 2009, China surpassed the US as Africa’s largest trading partner and with USD 14.1 billion of Chinese FDI in Africa as late as 2011, China has positioned its interest in Africa ahead of America and other developed countries. During Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visit to the African Union in 2014, he announced that China expects to achieve USD 400 billion in trade volumes with Africa and aims to raise its direct investment...

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Entrepreneur’s Confession: Why “AFRO”?
April 12, 2017
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At the end of the 6th year in business and through assessment and defining my long-term goals, I decided to rebrand. As the founder and leader of the company, rebranding meant shifting individual mindset in order to gear up and execute based on lessons learnt. Rebranding becomes about shedding the unnecessary and focusing on growth. It is the instance when you decide to stop what is not working, to continue what is profitable and start scaling. I made the...

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