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Max Q: A landing system for the moon and beyond

TechCrunch

Nearly a year after the agency announced that SpaceX beat out competitors (including Blue Origin and Boeing) for the opportunity, the agency said it would be opening competition for a second lunar lander under a new contract called Sustaining Lunar Development. It benefits NASA, [it] benefits the American people. More news from TC and beyond.

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The End of Silicon Valley as We Know It?

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Finally, as Theranos demonstrated so vividly, it is harder to sustain a hype balloon in a scientific enterprise than in many of the markets where Silicon Valley has prospered. Second, many of the markets where fortunes will be made are regulated; navigating regulated markets also takes skills that are conspicuously missing in Silicon Valley.