April 29, 2016

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Watch 3-D-printing robot spiders crawl around a manufacturing lab in Princeton, NJ

Siemens is testing teams of creepy-crawly 3-D-printing robots. Their descendants might make manufacturing lines far more efficient.

 
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Move into biotech by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund vindicated by AbbVie $5.8 billion takeover of unicorn Stemcentrx

AbbVie’s purchase of the cancer fighting startup backed by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund bodes well for biotech funding.

 
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Larry Page just punted on a chance to explain what’s up with Alphabet’s moonshot strategy

Google’s founders chose not to pen the company’s annual letter for the first time in 12 years, leaving investors in the dark about Alphabet’s moon shot strategies.

 
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Is there a customer for SpaceX’s Mars settlement plans other than Elon Musk himself?

Don’t bet against SpaceX’s ability to land a capsule on Mars. But colonization probably remains further off than it seems.

 
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Here’s how the cable experience might change if the FCC “unlocks” your cable box

The technology already exists to give third-party apps and devices access to cable content. The question is whether the cable companies will support it.

 
 

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Web pages and apps will get a lot faster thanks to an upgrade to the Internet standard

A company that powers two million websites is switching on a major upgrade to the protocol that underpins the Web.

 
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