The Air Force will say only that the shuttle-style X-37B is “a flexible space test platform. The U.S. Air Force successfully launched an unmanned space plane Thursday carrying an undisclosed payload. The Air Force’s Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV), also known as the X-37B, lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 7:52 p.m. EDT. The ship, built by Boeing, was carried aloft by an Atlas V rocket launched by United Launch Alliance, a Boeing-Lockheed Martin joint venture. // < ![CDATA[ // < ![CDATA[ function showDesc(img) { var element = document.getElementById("videoBoxDisplayAreaText"); if(element) element.innerHTML [...]

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Since leaving Google last October, former product manager and Jaiku co-founder, Jyri Engeström has moved his young family back to Helsinki and started rooting around for the next thing. Aside from working on his wife Ula’s long term project to create a hyperlink for any physical object, Thinglink, he’s also been seeking angel investments. Today he joins the board of XIHA Life which is run out of Sunnyvale, California, Switzerland and Finland. At the same time the startup has announced a $1 million seed round. Veraventure led the round, joined by other angels and the company founders. [...]

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