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Mysterious Lab to Unlock Immortality for the Super-Wealthy
A new and rather obscure Silicon Valley firm committed to anti-aging research receives significant financing from the wealthy. According to the MIT Technology Review, Altos Labs, a biological technology reprogrammer, is reportedly attracted by major investors such as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezo or Russian-Israeli milliardaire Yuri Milner. At present the company invites some of the…
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Virgin Galactic, founded by billionaire Sir Richard Branson, plans to sell $500 million in stock one day after reaching space.
Virgin Galactic, the British-American aerospace business established by Sir Richard Branson, filed to sell up to $500 million in stock to investors on Monday morning, barely one day after completing a historic space voyage that generated huge hoopla and (briefly) raised share prices. On Sunday, Branson and his crew flew more than 50 miles above…