News was made in July when two billionaires raced to the edge of space and returned home safely in two different types of aircraft. Billionaires and CEOs Richard Branson (Virgin Galactic) and Jeff Bezos (Blue Origin) took a short flight to the edge of space with their passengers and returned home safely! Blue Origin reached …
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Jun 04 2019
The Space Race for Worldwide Internet
A 75-year-old woman, who lived outside the Georgian capitol of Tbilisi hoped to dig up copper wiring to sell for scrap. Instead, she cut through a fiber-optic cable and stopped communications to millions of people in neighboring Armenia staring at blank screens for 12 hours. She had cut off their country’s Internet. The 2011 incident …
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