‘First luxury space hotel’ plans to offer zero gravity living – for $792,000 a night
Self-described ‘serial entrepreneur’ behind the Aurora Station says it is selling the astronaut experience and plans to open in 2021
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Forget Alexa, Amazon’s next big product is … wine
World’s largest retailer moves from tech products to its own wine, to revive the ‘direct connection between wine-maker and customer’
Lessons from the tech elite: eat carrots, shower more and tape up your webcam
A celebratory Instagram post by Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the Facebook CEO covers his webcam to make it hacker-proof. What other useful tricks can the titans of big tech teach us?
Wealth creation at different ages: wealthiest person at each decade
Wealth-X released a list of the wealthiest person at each decade, from their 20s through their 90s, revealing insights into wealth creation at different ages. The list shows that: The wealthiest individual across all age groups is Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and the Bill & Melinda Foundation co- chairman, age 60, with a net worth … Read more
Jack Ma (Alibaba), Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Patrick Drahi are this year’s top gainers
The Biggest Gainers And Losers Of 2014. Wealth-X study. According to Wealth-X, the biggest gainer of 2014 was Alibaba founder and executive chairman Jack Ma, the former English teacher-turned billionaire entrepreneur. Ma’s fortune swelled by US$18.5 billion this year to US$29.2 billion, representing an increase of 173%, largely due to Alibaba’s blockbuster IPO in September … Read more
Real books should be preserved like papyrus scrolls
In a future electronic world, there will be a ghastly contingency about the written word. Books have a new place as sacred objects, and libraries as museums