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En octubre de 2014, Alan Eustace, entonces vicepresidente de la compañía Google, saltó al vacío desde un globo espacial a 41.420 metros de altitud batiendo el récord mundial de caída libre. La hazaña fue posible no solo al traje presurizado que llevaba puesto y, por supuesto, al aplomo de Eustace, sino también al equipo que había detrás de ese globo entre los que hoy se encuentran los fundadores de Space Perspectives. Capitaneada por la pareja Jane Poynter y Taber MacCallum, esta nueva compañía con sede en Florida ha creado ahora una vela mucho más grande, amén de una experienci...

Rise of the 10X Class The "robber barons" of the 21st Century are the people who used to sit next to you at the office. The Split Everyone is worried about the concentration of economic power in the hands of a small number of people. This discussion is usually focused on tech billionaires and the companies they created — Amazon, Google, Facebook, and to a lesser extent, Apple, Twitter, and even Tesla. But a less conspicuous class is about to amass vast economic power. That class is composed of working people who do not own companies or employ anyone else. Before we get to them, let us cons...

DIMMING THE SUN: Bill Gates and other Family Office Owners Allocate Capital to Solar Geoengineering Posted on 02/17/2021 The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, on climate change mitigation, adaptation, and finance, signed in 2016. There are many attempts and experiments trying to control global warming. Solar geoengineering refers to proposed approaches to cool the Earth by reflecting solar radiation back to space. Some of these experimental ideas range from sending a giant mirror into space to spraying aerosols in the stratospher...

Fact Check: This is not an Australian astronaut jumping from spaceship to Earth Fact Check: This is not an Australian astronaut jumping from spaceship to Earth A video along with the claim that it shows an Australian astronaut jumping to Earth from a spaceship in four minutes is circulating on social media. However, AFWA has found the claim to be misleading advertisement UPDATED: January 14, 2021 12:41 IST The video in question shows a skydiver jumping from the stratosphere as part of 'Red Bull Stratos' mission and not an astronaut jumping from spaceship to Earth. A video is circulating on so...

>> a lot of cheeseburgers. let me tell you. >> welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm lesley stahl. the information technology revolution changes our world on a daily basis, but one thing that doesn't change is our fascination with the so-called nerds who not only transformed society but became billionaires in the process. this edition features a trio of these tech titans: bill gates, the man who created the world's most valuable software company, microsoft; mark zuckerberg, the young, geeky computer programmer behind the internet phenomenon facebook; and sergey brin, the cofounder of go...