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SpaceX begins accepting $99 preorders for its Starlink satellite internet service as Musk eyes IPO

SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet service on Monday began accepting $99 preorders from potential customers, with Elon Musk still expecting Starlink will IPO.


Starlink’s website emphasizes that preorders are “fully refundable,” but notes in fine print that “placing a deposit does not guarantee service.”

Comprehensive Genetic Map Reveals Circuitry of 30,000 Human Disease Regions

Analysis reveals genetic control elements that are linked to hundreds of human traits.

Twenty years ago this month, the first draft of the human genome was publicly released. One of the major surprises that came from that project was the revelation that only 1.5 percent of the human genome consists of protein-coding genes.

Over the past two decades, it has become apparent that those noncoding stretches of DNA, originally thought to be “junk DNA,” play critical roles in development and gene regulation. In a new study published on February 32021, a team of researchers from MIT has published the most comprehensive map yet of this noncoding DNA.

Sophia, the talking humanoid robot, is being readied for mass production during the pandemic

“The world of COVID-19 is going to need more and more automation to keep people safe,” Hanson Robotics founder David Hanson said.


Hanson Robotics says more automation is needed during the pandemic. It has now started mass production of its humanoid robot, Sophia.

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