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US expands support for cancer research, biotech industry

Posted in Business, Medicine, Science on 28th Sep, 2022
by Alex Muller

President Joe Biden announced a series of politically popular health and biotech initiatives – relaunching a “cancer moonshot” to cut the cancer death rate by 50% in 25 years, and promising $2 billion for domestic US biopharma and biotech supply chains.

The US now has a space hotline with China

Posted in Science on 23rd Nov, 2015
by Alex Muller

Its not the first space hotline to exist. In the past, the president has also used a direct link with Moscow to chat about space issues.

China to replace US as world's top consumer tech market in 2016

Posted in Hardware on 26th May, 2015
by Alex Muller

China is expected to become the number one market for consumer tech, thanks to both strong local buying power and the rapid development of homegrown innovation.

America's Middle Class is no longer the Richest in the World

Posted in Business on 23rd Apr, 2014
by Alex Muller

The richest middle class is now in Canada.