Sentences with phrase «by tech billionaire»

Case in point is the pioneering electric car company, Tesla, owned by tech billionaire Elon Musk.

In a new video to promote their new comedy WHY HIM, co-stars Bryan Cranston and James Franco guess which quotes were either said by a man from Florida or by a tech billionaire.

Regardless, the study has begun well ahead of the first planned American CRISPR trials, which won regulatory clearance earlier this year (and are being funded by tech billionaire Sean Parker) but are unlikely to begin until 2017 at the University of Pennsylvania.

That puts China well ahead of the U.S. in launching CRISPR trials; the first one in America, which will be conducted at the University of Pennsylvania and is being funded by tech billionaire Sean Parker, isn't set to begin until early 2017.

It involves each student learning at his or her own pace, generally through the aid of technology, and it's beloved by tech billionaires like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.

The round was led by Softbank's Vision fund and also included investments by tech billionaires Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt.

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Dallas Mavericks owner and tech billionaire Mark Cuban has denied a sexual assault allegation from 2011 that resurfaced this week in a report by Willamette Week, a weekly alternative newspaper in Portland, Ore..

Tech billionaire Elon Musk has said that he learned how to build rockets by reading books.

The latest boost is the plan backed by top business leaders, including billionaire tech investors Bill Gates and Jack Ma, to set up a $ 1 billion fund for the development of innovative energy technologies.

Zuckerberg, a billionaire running a tech company in a region known for runaway wealth, is by any reasonable person's definition not eligible to represent what VandeHei refers to as «Normal America.»

The aerospace company, founded by billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk, has pulled off 16 rocket launches in 2017.

The billionaire investor is scaling back his role in the tech industry because he feels alienated by the liberal - leaning political climate in the San Francisco area and fears the effects of increased regulation, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The conservative tech billionaire may be ditching lefty San Francisco, frustrated by its cultural homogeneity.

Peter Thiel, the tech billionaire who is attempting to destroy Gawker Media by funding lawsuits against it, has long served on the Facebook board of directors.

For Caro, Johnson represents a shift that began under Franklin Roosevelt, toward a new populism in American politics, driven by a combination of emerging Texas oil and natural gas tycoons, billionaire government contractors, and the high - tech political campaigns they were able to fund.

Both companies are linked to tech - driven billionaires who backed Mr. Trump's campaign: Cambridge is chiefly owned by Robert Mercer, the computer scientist and hedge fund magnate, while Palantir was co-founded in 2003 by Mr. Thiel, who was an initial investor in Facebook.

CANADA JOURNAL - Jan 13 - Beijing Kunlun Tech, which is run by billionaire Zhou Yahui, paid $ 93M for a 60 % controlling stake in the company — a significant sum for what is Grindr's first outside investment.

Meanwhile, the level of criminals have been upgraded a notch when psychotic billionaire Norman Osborn (Dafoe, The Boondock Saints), father of Peter's roommate Harry (Franco, City by the Sea), takes to terrorizing his enemies and the citizens of New York using a high - tech glider and suit under the moniker of the Green Goblin.

While Eggsy undergoes the ultra-competitive training program (with only one recruit earning a spot as a Kingsman), Harry investigates a potential threat involving a tech - genius billionaire named Valentine (Samuel L. Jackson) who wants to save the Earth from the dangerous effects of climate change by wiping out most of humanity.

«The mystery - solving teens are best friends but have only met online — until Daphne transfers to Velma's school, Ridge Valley High, stocked with high - tech gadgetry by the school's benefactor, tech billionaire Tobias Bloom.

Reversion (Unrated) Sci - fi thriller about the daughter (Aja Naomi King) of a high - tech billionaire (Colm Feore) who starts wondering about the accuracy of her memories of her late mother after she's kidnapped by a stranger (Jeanette Samano) with a hidden agenda.

In a relatively short time, a stunning number of accountability - based leaders have been forced from office on a tide of voter resentment even while, as documented by historian Diane Ravitch, the likes of Gates, Broad, and hedge fund billionaires continue their corporate - style push toward school closures, choice, data - driven student and teacher evaluation, and high - tech innovation.

Book of Numbers By Joshua Cohen Random House • $ 18 • ISBN 9780812986655 In this epic and ambitious novel, the narrator is a ghostwriter named Joshua Cohen who's been hired to write the memoir of a tech billionaire also named Joshua Cohen.

Today, in times of resource scarcity, global warming and impending nuclear conflict, this claim is being boldly asserted once again — in the form, however, of a private - sector undertaking driven primarily by US tech billionaires from the new space industry, not least — as they claim — in order to secure the survival of mankind against home - made planetary collapse.

SolarCity, a Californian solar leasing company led by billionaire clean tech developer Elon Musk, expects home battery storage to become commercially «viable» in the US within the next 10 years.

Faraday Future is backed by Chinese billionaire Jia Yueting and his LeEco tech company, but that source of funding is also threatened.

Both companies are linked to tech - driven billionaires who backed Mr. Trump's campaign: Cambridge is chiefly owned by Robert Mercer, the computer scientist and hedge fund magnate, while Palantir was co-founded in 2003 by Mr. Thiel, who was an initial investor in Facebook.

The company is backed by a billionaire in China who runs LeEco, a tech giant that makes smartphones, virtual - reality headsets, and TVs.

LeEco was founded by Chinese tech billionaire Jia Yueting.

Faraday, which is backed primarily by Chinese tech billionaire Jia Yueting, began developing the site in July after a high - profile groundbreaking in April with Nevada state officials.

Zuckerberg's commencement address to the Harvard class of 2017 will come exactly a decade after that given by Bill Gates, the first tech billionaire that dropped out of Harvard before returning to address the new graduates and receive an honorary degree from his former university.

Owned by a Chinese tech billionaire, the startup company hints it will launch a revolutionary new battery - electric vehicle as early as 2017.