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NEW YORK (Sputnik) – Wall Street rebounded on Wednesday from the scare over the first US case of the novel Coronavirus, with shares linked to both the top equities and technology indexes hitting new peaks before closing higher. The S&P…
A federal court has sentenced former executives of Insys, including founder and ex-CEO John Kapoor, to years in prison for their role in irresponsibly marketing the painkiller Subsys and perpetuating the opioid epidemic. On Thursday, US District Judge Allison Burroughs…
When the price of Apple stock hit a then-record high in October 2018, among the shareholders counting their gains were 43 Republicans in Congress, who collectively owned as much as $1.5 million worth of the tech giant’s shares. Apple’s stock…
Rostec has launched a unique parachute called “Shans” (“Opportunity” in Russian) that can be used to escape from a skyscraper in the event of an emergency, according to the sate corporation’s press service. With the help of “Shans” even an…
In a 2008 interview, Elon Musk, the 47-year-old tech billionaire entrepreneur behind Tesla Inc and SpaceX, said Edison and Nikola Tesla, for whom he named his electric auto company, were both role models, but noted he preferred Edison. US President…
A previous study examined the skeletal remains of people in Herculaneum who had attempted to flee the Mount Vesuvius eruption, only to perish in the extreme heat generated by the volcanic blast, with their skulls bursting in the extreme heat.…
