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Manufactured homes make a comeback, with a lot more bells and whistles

Dec 27, 2018
Remember those days when you’d be on a road trip and all of a sudden a house would drive by in the other lane? Or more accurately, one half of a house, followed by the other half? You don’t see those double-wides much anymore. But with affordable housing harder to come by, manufactured homes are […]
One of the few photographs of Neil Armstrong on the moon shows him working on his space craft on the lunar surface. The 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landing mission is celebrated July 20, 1999.
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Does Big Tech have more influence on the economy than the president?

Oct 17, 2018
Americans seem to think so, according to the Marketplace-Edison Research Poll.
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Tesla's China plant will serve the world's biggest electric car market

Jul 11, 2018
This week, Tesla announced its plans to build a plant in Shanghai amid trade tensions between the U.S. and China
A view of a fully electric Tesla car on an assembly line at the new Tesla Motors car factory in Tilburg, the Netherlands, during the opening and launch of the new factory, on Aug. 22, 2013.
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Can you really make money while doing good?

Oct 25, 2017
How impact investors hope to change the world while profiting from it.
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Rethinking tech funding could help solve the industry's problems

Oct 10, 2017
Venture capitalist Tim O'Reilly says his very industry needs to do better.
Employees of startup companies work at the offices of a business incubator in Washington, D.C.
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What LinkedIn tells us about the economy

Oct 9, 2017
It may have some insights that the government doesn't.
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For public good, not for profit.

Learning your ABCs in the future: reading, writing, coding and AI

Oct 4, 2017
One AI pioneer said learning the basics of coding and AI could be key to income equality and opportunity in the future.
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Should we fund the militarization of space?

Oct 3, 2017
Congress is debating whether the U.S. should create a Space Corps.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on June 2017 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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This startup wants to change how we borrow money

Oct 2, 2017
Affirm wants to be the alternative to all those credit cards in your wallet.
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