I've been preaching moonshot taking for long enough and begging other groups to start their own moonshot factories.
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Yes, but: A moonshot might not be the right metaphor.
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The White House can call it a National Cancer Moonshot.
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DeVaul is a director at X, the company's "moonshot" division.
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I n many ways, virtual reality is still a moonshot.
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And this goes to the cyber moonshot or Manhattan Project.
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"This will be NASA's moonshot for aviation," Mr. Bolden said.
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Vice President Biden's cancer moonshot is only the latest example.
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It's a moonshot business; companies are going to blow up.
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Our next moonshot is not to Mars or deep space.
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What is also noteworthy, given VR and AR's penchant for being the promise that keeps on promising, is that Varjo isn't a "moonshot" investment, even though Atomico does do moonshot investments from time to time.
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President Kennedy had two distinct advantages a cybersecurity moonshot does not.
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But unlike Elon Musk's rocket startup, WeWork has no moonshot ideas.
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Here's a moonshot for you: Why don't we discover the brain?
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Mr. Obama isn't the first president to promise a cancer moonshot.
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We can – and must – do the same for the Cancer Moonshot.
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Will the moonshot concentrate primarily on the science of eradicating cancer?
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Alphabet's latest moonshot company delivers internet access via solar-powered balloons.
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Dr. Breivik is responding to President Obama's National Cancer Moonshot Initiative.
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The moonshot talk may be aspirational, but it is not lunacy.
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Barack Obama in 2016 called for a "moonshot" to cure cancer.
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Google's founders love "moonshot" ideas, even when they're not their own.
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" Apollo, the startup NASA's Apollo program was the first-ever "moonshot.
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Focusing on moonshot-like goals to increase urgency and provide deadlines.
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"This is a bold bet — a moonshot — for Microsoft," he said.
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"And it will need to become a moonshot for the world."
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Barack Obama in 2016 called for a "moonshot" to cure cancer.
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Facebook works with both Life After Hate and Moonshot CVE, too.
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X is a secretive R&D lab, nicknamed Alphabet's moonshot factory.
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In total, Google lost nearly $1 billion dollars on its moonshot projects.
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Image: APAlphabet also killed its modular phone moonshot, Project Ara, last September.
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Obama's Big Moonshot: Save HumanityPresident Obama delivered a budget to Congress today.
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Public Health Can we agree to stop calling it the cancer moonshot?
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If you need moonshot projects that actually make money, this is it.
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We're no closer to that moonshot than we were four years ago.
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It is unsettling to realize that not every startup is a moonshot.
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"I think you have the potential for a moonshot here," he said.
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Sergey is continuing to spend time working with the X moonshot factory.
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We've landed the moonshot and are taking technology to the next level.
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We have already done the hard part-- we're through the moonshot phase.
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One of the other moonshot ideas to come out of X Development
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Thrun, who founded X, Google's moonshot factory, also co-founded Kitty Hawk.
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Even Stephanie Miner admits that her campaign for governor is a moonshot.
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The first Hyperloop in an actual city is still a moonshot project.
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So the moonshot for me would be to do a science show.
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The United States poured $20 billion and 400,000 workers into the moonshot.
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For instance he opened the debate talking about President John Kennedy's moonshot.
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It makes some sense to complete a moonshot within one administration's reign.
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Last summer, a small company called Space Data sued Alphabet's 'moonshot' X division.
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Porat has been lauded on Wall Street for reining in Google's "moonshot" projects.
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It's not even the first time it's been done under the "moonshot" name.
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That is, it was a grand public-sector moonshot of a program—exactly
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Humans continue their leap in space, and Google is leading a moonshot effort.
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ET he will be taking questions via Facebook about his Cancer Moonshot Initiative.
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One of Alphabet's most ambitious projects isn't a literal "moonshot," but it's close.
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Vocal critics of the Moonshot effort have charged that it can't be done.
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Now with a moonshot incubator, Ford is revving up its mobility services goals.
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The headlines inspired celebrations: This American bar in France offered a "moonshot cocktail."
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But its biggest challenge may be getting any moonshot idea out of committees.
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Maybe it is the equivalent of a moonshot to find cures for cancer.
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Major projects from the Obama administration, like Joe Biden's cancer moonshot, have continued.
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Joe Biden understood this in 2016 when he launched his cancer moonshot there.
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It should not take one of Alphabet's "moonshot" companies to do this work.
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"It would take a sort of moonshot-level effort," wrote Vox's Brian Resnick.
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And Curry follows with a high-arcing moonshot, and Durant tosses down again.
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And Trump, like other US presidents, has occasionally highlighted a potential moonshot policy.
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For now, though, cancer moonshot is struggling with just standardizing data across platforms.
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The company has a history of revealing its moonshot ideas at the show.
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Moonshot buys ads like any other company on Google, and pays per click.
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A national reading push would be the moonshot that makes all others possible.
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It could spend that money on buybacks, dividends or acquisitions or moonshot projects.
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This particular moonshot fell about a hundred-million books short of the moon.
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Unfortunately, there are no active moonshot grants funding prevention or early detection efforts.
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He would serve as a key member of Project Chauffeur, Google's autonomous vehicle moonshot.
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The Cancer Moonshot initiative has raised questions about what it means to "cure" cancer.
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His father currently leads the cancer "moonshot" initiative to improve cancer research and treatment.
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The sale of Terra Bella is just the latest "moonshot" wind down at Alphabet.
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I see the vice president's work in getting $2 billion for his cancer moonshot.
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Citizens don't need to worry about having their tax dollars thrown at the moonshot.
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The coalition is the basis for what Dr. Soon-Shiong calls Cancer MoonShot 2020.
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Foxx's pro-moonshot stance isn't surprising: He's backed a lot of emerging transportation technologies.
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Thrun, who founded X, Google's moonshot factory, is also CEO of Kitty Hawk Corp.
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But Alphabet's attempt to birth the next generation of moonshot companies raises two questions.
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It traveled 122-meters (that's 410-feet in 'Murican), an absolute moonshot in cricket.
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Regulatory restrictions in the US made birth control pills a moonshot idea until 1960.
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But startup investors are much more in the market for drama and "moonshot" ideas.
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If ever there was an opportune time for a cancer moonshot, it is now.
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EDT: President Obama, Vice President Biden and Jill Biden release the cancer moonshot report.
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This is for the future 'moonshot entrepreneurs' networking with their future investors and partners.
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"Moonshot," a 1958 illustration by artist Allan Todd, depicts astronauts on the lunar surface.
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NIH oversees ambitious health projects such as the BRAIN Initiative and the Cancer Moonshot.
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I see the vice president's work in getting $2 billion for his cancer 'moonshot.
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Carbon capture isn't a moonshot solution, nor is it a silver bullet for decarbonization.
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Our cancer moonshot is a worthwhile goal — and will continue into Donald Trump's presidency.
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During the year, all the moonshot units combined reported operating losses of $3.6 billion.
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Google X, Alphabet's moonshot factory, has reportedly been reorganized amid a broader cost-savings effort.
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In our preview of this county, we called it a "moonshot" for the Trump campaign.
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And immunotherapy is one big plank of Vice President Biden's proposed $1 billion cancer moonshot.
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And it's in that truly driverless moonshot where the questions of safety and liability abound.
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Go deeper: Israeli moon landing to mark milestone Axios' Space Deep Dive NASA's moonshot whiplash
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Alex Davies goes inside X, the secretive, experimental moonshot factory of Google's parent company, Alphabet.
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" "Last year, Vice President Biden said that with a new moonshot, America can cure cancer.
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"Reid also praised the bill's $1.8 billion in funding for Vice President Biden's cancer "moonshot.
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EST: Vice President Biden meets with electronic health record companies for his cancer "moonshot" initiative.
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The measure could be a vehicle for funding Vice President Biden's cancer "moonshot," for example.
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JOHN CARLIN: Sometimes this gets described as a cyber moonshot or the cyber Manhattan Project.
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In the past, Biden promoted the "Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot," named after his late son.
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Lest we forget, the late 1960s moonshot mission was not by chance, but by choice.
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He oversaw the "Cancer Moonshot" during his time as vice president in the Obama administration.
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Silicon Valley should have a stake in the U.S. government's moonshot initiative to cure cancer.
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Bar some kind of moonshot-styled medical miracle, he'll never be able to walk again.
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The president has announced his support for a precision medicine initiative and a cancer 'moonshot.
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The company raised more than $1 billion last year to help fund its moonshot projects.
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"Honestly, I think the vaccine in 12 to 18 months is a moonshot," Smith says.
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Naveen Jain has a number of moonshot projects — including helping people live on the moon.
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But Cancer Moonshot wants to change that by enticing patients to preregister for drug trials.
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He could use tunneling to achieve his moonshot goal of clearing up Los Angeles traffic.
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But Moonshot vows that it gets data only on search terms and nothing about individuals.
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"This is a bold bet — a moonshot — for Microsoft," Smith said in announcing his plan.
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Now Microsoft is adding its own moonshot to solve the digital divide into that mix.
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Bloomberg's Patrick Clark called it a "moonshot effort," reporting that the company's investors were "skeptical."
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Last year, Vice President Biden said that with a new moonshot, America can cure cancer.
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The highly anticipated efforts, spearheaded by Vice President Biden, will be called the White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force – a reference to Biden's speech in the Rose Garden last year calling for a "moonshot" to cure the disease that led to his son's death.
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This legal argument was a moonshot, but the funds got Judge Thomas P. Griesa to bite.
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It's been a while since we last heard from Project Wing, X's moonshot drone delivery project.
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These so-called moonshot projects are the stuff Silicon Valley hype machine dreams are made of.
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It was created and has been housed in its X "moonshot" unit, a subsidiary of Alphabet.
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The announcement used similar language to press releases about discontinuing Project Ara and other moonshot projects.
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ET. Go deeper: Israeli moon landing to mark milestone Axios' Space Deep Dive NASA's moonshot whiplash
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Go deeper: Axios' Space Deep Dive NASA's moonshot whiplash NASA finds near-Earth asteroid spewing particles
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Would fans rather watch this massive phenom mash a moonshot off the restaurant beyond Monument Park?
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"It's a moonshot idea, and I really respect it," Salzer said about the Hyperloop One project.
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DARPA has a very unique mission, which is to do really risky moonshot-style R&D.
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They were making tangible billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's well-documented dream of a human transportation moonshot.
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As the head of X, Alphabet's so-called moonshot factory, Astro Teller has plenty of both.
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Getting a decent education in the U.S., after all, really should not be such a moonshot.
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Pharmaceutical companies, philanthropists and the federal government's "cancer moonshot" program are pouring money into developing treatments.
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Biden in 2016 said he would continue focusing on the "cancer moonshot" initiative once leaving office.
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In 19693, Congress allocated $1.8 billion over a seven-year period to fund Obama's Cancer Moonshot.
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For a company set up to be a civic moonshot, this was simply not good enough.
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In the present day and half a world away, Dubai is no stranger to moonshot projects.
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Though everything about the moonshot was fraught with uncertainty, it benefited from a clearly defined goal.
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Top executives — perhaps understandably — don't want to be seen as throwing investors' cash at moonshot projects.
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Last January, Alphabet's X "moonshot" factory announced a surprising turn, a new cybersecurity company called Chronicle.
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This isn't about plastic straws ... This is about massive moonshot style, technological advances and industrial change.
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Megan Smith: Yeah, so, just overall to frame this issue, I think this is the moonshot.
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Thrun, who founded Google's moonshot factory X, is also CEO of flying-car startup Kitty Hawk Corp.
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The following year, the Obama White House launched the Cancer Moonshot initiative, spearheaded by the vice president.
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Geothermal startup Dandelion has left Alphabet's moonshot accelerator X to become its own company outside of Alphabet.
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It's not clear who will take over representing the moonshot lab in the upcoming FAA regulatory discussions.
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And that's probably because his rise started with a long, slow burn, followed by a meteoric moonshot.
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Waymo is the leader in self-driving cars, having started as a Google "moonshot" project in 2009.
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He helped bring self-driving cars out of academia through X, the Google moonshot factory he founded.
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With its move from X, the Glass team joins other graduates that also left the moonshot factory.
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And after years of moonshot development, we still don't have many options when a cable gets cut.
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The outcome was the moonshot — the astonishing launch of two humans onto the nearest body in space.
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The big question: Is returning to the Moon a half-century after Apollo 11 really a moonshot?
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The mission represents the latest in NASA's moonshot whiplash that's plagued the agency since the Apollo program.
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"As Google is wont to do, they're taking a moonshot approach to developing the technology," he said.
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Rather than accelerating the "moonshot factory," sources say the Google-to-Alphabet reshuffle has clogged it up.
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"Last year, Vice President Biden said that with a new moonshot, America can cure cancer," Obama said.
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Originally, the team came up with the name Moonshot, complete with a specific design around that theme.
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Instead of a war (or a moonshot), what is required probably looks more like a counterinsurgency operation.
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And the technology we need to fully harness the potential of these tools hardly requires a moonshot.
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Immunotherapy is also a major thrust of Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s "cancer moonshot" initiative.
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"The challenge before us has sometimes been described as needing a moonshot," Alexander said during the markup.
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Roundup Jaime Garcia watched in wonder as his teammate Brandon Moss launched a moonshot at Busch Stadium.
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The company also provides resources to "moonshot" academic research projects, which typically require a long-term investment.
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The moonshot will only make a difference if new treatments are available and accessible to all patients.
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What we need is a new "moonshot" for kidney care — that mirrors previous initiatives to tackle cancer.
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For the moonshot to work, institutions, government and industry must share data they've previously held in hammerlock.
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X says its moonshot-hunting employees usually put around 20 percent of trash in the wrong place.
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Sometimes it takes the form of moonshot in-house projects that are still years away from profitability.
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If there's another group that you think is a moonshot factory, that's an actively good thing — sincerely.
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They also factored out its money-losing "moonshot investments," like its effort to develop a driverless car.
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After all, the method is used by big companies such as Google to tackle moonshot-type projects.
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It is a moonshot for China, whose teams have ranked poor to middling in recent international competition.
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YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K 'flying motorcycle' Jetpack Aviation launched pre-orders this week for the moonshot of moonshots — the Speeder, a personal vertical take-off and landing vehicle with a svelte concept design that looks straight out of Star Wars or Halo.
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I think the easy answer for Google is autonomous cars, if that's even a moonshot at this point.
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Reaching a 28503 percent clean energy target is a moonshot that states throughout the country are increasingly attempting.
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Biden on Tuesday pressed his case for a cancer "moonshot," announcing a new institute for immunotherapy at Hopkins.
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" A year later Gingrich described his ideal plan as "a kind of wireless moonshot (but with private capital).
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"The proper moonshot for our time should be sending humans to Mars within a decade," Zubrin tells Axios.
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Cory Booker, in a recent interview with an Iowa NBC affiliate, compared the climate challenge to the moonshot.
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Ocasio-Cortez, who's dubbed the plan "our moonshot " admits the proposal is ambitious, but says that's by design.
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He created the school's Cancer Moonshot initiative in honor of Beau, who died from brain cancer in 2015.
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Just last month, the one-time Google moonshot started deliveries for select locales in Australia's capital city, Canberra.
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"We busted a lot of balloons," moonshot chief Astro Teller said during a talk at the TED conference.
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So, before the moonshot lifts off, we hope those advising Vice President Biden will ask three critical questions.
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In iconic Google vocabulary, "the really big moonshot idea here is communication with thought — with telepathy," says Jepsen.
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Vice President Biden on Monday unveiled a new cancer database as part of his moonshot against the disease.
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The $1 billion moonshot project was announced by Obama during his State of the Union address in January.
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To the Editor: I respectfully disagree with Dr. Jarle Breivik with regard to the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative.
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Rather than count on websites to police themselves, Moonshot aims to temper extremists' ability to find that content.
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Hopefully, those working on this new moonshot cancer initiative recognize Silicon Valley's potential to help in this endeavor.
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Obama predicted Biden's post-government career, which includes his cancer moonshot effort, would continue to shape the country.
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Through X, the Alphabet's moonshot factory he founded, he helped take self-driving cars from theory to reality.
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Such efforts might interrupt the activity, but did not address the underlying problem as Moonshot seeks to do.
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Within this "moonshot," the president asked for an additional one billion dollars to be devoted to cancer research.
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Personalized medicine The original, lofty moonshot was achieved through unprecedented collaboration between US government agencies and scientific teams.
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It could disincentivize the kinds of moonshot investments that don't pay steady, predictable returns but can transform society.
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What's your 20, 30 years from now, looking back, what have you accomplished, what's the big moonshot here?
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The Biden Cancer Initiative was founded in 6900 as an offshoot of the Obama administration's Cancer Moonshot program.
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And the idea of a "war on cancer" has persisted, with the "moonshot" its most ambitious attack yet.
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Well, Hof's Democratic opponent Lesia Romanov won't let him steamroll her, even if her campaign is a moonshot.
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Still the Stalnaker Moonshot worked, and a scout from West Virginia University showed up at the next game.
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The White House sought $755 million for Vice President Joe Biden's "moonshot" effort to find new cancer treatments.
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Google's most promising "moonshot" is its self-driving car project, which is widely regarded as the technology leader.
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Although activists argued a strong case for the value of Snowden's disclosures, a presidential pardon seems like a moonshot.
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The "Cancer Moonshot" initiative was announced by President Barack Obama at his State of the Union address in January.
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The company's overall revenue growth was less than expected, while its losses from its "moonshot" projects increased 53 percent.
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The startup, which began as a moonshot project under X, has been testing on public roads for years now.
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There were no new gadgets, no new moonshot projects, and not even cool new swag like Google Cardboard headsets.
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Vice President Joseph Biden speaks at the Cancer Moonshot Summit at Howard University in Washington on June 29, 2016.
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Aside from traditional television, radio and newspapers, there was no place to gather and pick apart NASA's moonshot plan.
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More importantly, we've set ourselves a "moonshot" – to improve 3 billion lives a year by 2025 through meaningful innovation.
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Cao isn't just going for the moonshot of fully autonomous vehicles, which he says could be 24 years away.
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His father has prominently supported a "Cancer Moonshot" initiative undertaken by the National Institutes of Health since his death.
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Biden announced the "Cancer Moonshot" initiative during former President Obama's final State of the Union address back in 2016.
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Done right, the cancer moonshot can build on our past investment, and spur even more progress against the disease.
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Still, in a shareholder letter on Thursday, Google co-founder Larry Page highlighted the strength of these moonshot programs.
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Obviously we all hope sincerely that this moonshot of Kim Jong Un meeting with President Trump will be productive.
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The core Google business is growing nicely and is highly profitable, but the other "moonshot" businesses keep losing money.
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The push has been augmented by U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden's "moonshot" bid to find cancer cures and treatments.
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Vice President Biden will travel to the Vatican later this month to discuss his "moonshot" effort to cure cancer.
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Indeed, a cancer "moonshot" is welcome news to those of us who advocate for cancer survivors and their families.
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High-speed rail is still a moonshot in the US, but Japan has been using the technology for years.
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Right now his focus is on the [Biden] Foundation and Cancer Moonshot, as well as getting other Democrats elected.
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The so-called moonshot factory has developed a handful of projects so far, including delivery drones and internet balloons.
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The bill is a victory for Biden because it provides funding for his signature cancer "moonshot" to fight cancer.
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And Kahn set out to convince philanthropists that a moonshot was worth it, even with no immediate business prospects.
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Other Bets is best known for its "moonshot" R&D unit, X, but it also houses several other companies.
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The speech was less a grand rhetorical moonshot and more a practical greatest-hits medley drawn from the campaign.
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Moonshot ... or not KKR's growth equity team keeps a close eye on startups and on the venture-capital scene.
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The 21st Century Cures Act provides guaranteed funding for "moonshot" programs researching cancer, mapping the brain, and precision medicine.
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Details: The report urges the White House to create an Apollo program-like effort called the Cybersecurity Moonshot, which would include a council (the Cybersecurity Moonshot Council) made up of Cabinet-level officials and an executive director to continuously provide cybersecurity guidance focused on meeting the demands of a decade in the future.
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Top cancer researchers recently reported their findings and recommendations to President Obama and Vice President Biden's Cancer Moonshot task force.
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The reason: They had been invited to Vice President Joseph R. Biden's office to discuss his "moonshot" to cure cancer.
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His moonshot ideas, unfiltered chatter with reporters, and direct engagement with customers have won him a legion of adoring fans.
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Facebook is restructuring its experimental hardware efforts and giving its moonshot projects a home within its AR/VR research division.
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But it's not just about reaching our nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, although that is the new Breakthrough project's moonshot.
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The White House will ask for $755 million for Vice President Joe Biden's "moonshot" effort to find new cancer treatments.
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Administration officials say the White House has also been weighing several "moonshot" goals for the State of the Union address.
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In the last chapter I examined the possibility of the "moonshot marathon," a special race whose only goal was time.
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EST: Vice President Biden speaks about his cancer "moonshot" initiative at a J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, Calif.
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There's no albatross hanging around Sony's neck, no moonshot that it has to figure out ways to sell and promote.
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Acquired companies such as Nest and moonshot projects like a self-driving car venture would be treated as separate units.
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Biden said earlier this year in an interview with STAT that he would continue focusing on the "cancer moonshot" initiative.
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It is also a central plank of U.S. Vice President Joe Biden's "moonshot" initiative aimed at finding cures for cancer.
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Its believers think the firm will turn at least one of its moonshot projects into a significant earner of profits.
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The project started back in 2016 as a moonshot idea, and it's now being spun off into its own company.
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Deep-pocketed entrepreneurs not only add to the number of moonshot projects, literal or metaphorical, they also introduce fresh thinking.
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"I've never seen so much support for anything as I've seen for the moonshot," said Simon, a former Pfizer executive.
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Biden, who lost a son to cancer last year, has led the White House "cancer moonshot" push since last January.
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Having left Google in February 2018, Gawdat is now embarking on his personal moonshot: Helping a billion people achieve happiness.
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He has since focused his efforts on Obama's $1 billion "moonshot" for cancer research, rallying support for ending the disease.
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President Obama announced the cancer moonshot, with Biden at the helm, during his State of the Union address in January.
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Biden, whose eldest son died of brain cancer in 85033, previously said he would continue with the "cancer moonshot" initiative.
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As pointed out by Charles Beames, the executive chairman at York Space Systems, Kennedy's Moonshot was part Cold War strategy.
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The mental health option: Moonshot also experimented with offering ads for mental health services to those searching for extremist content.
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Why this matters: This fits with trends at Alphabet (formerly Google) to rein in moonshot projects and their high costs.
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Ted Strickland in Columbus before giving a speech in Cleveland on his cancer moonshot effort, followed by another Strickland event.
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For many people, Wall Street in particular, Fiber is still considered a moonshot science experiment — not something you're taking seriously.
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Elsewhere on The Hill, expect far fewer political fireworks at the congressional briefing on Vice President Biden's cancer moonshot initiative.
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First founded in 2006, Makani was acquired by Google in 2013 and integrated into the company's Google X moonshot wing.
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In Canada, the government awarded Moonshot more than $1.5 million to run the program for 18 months, ending next March.
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The company calls itself a "moonshot factory" because it works on technologies to solve some of the world's biggest problems.
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It was also unclear if the other federal agencies involved in moonshot had complementary blue-ribbon panels doing similar work.
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Glimcher helped develop Vice President Joe Biden's Moonshot initiative, and witnessed the 21st Century Cures Bill being signed into law.
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Biden lost his son, Beau, to cancer last year, prompting him to launch his "moonshot" effort to find a cure.
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This was President Barack Obama's "moonshot" project to map the human brain and to create new tools to study it.
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Politicians are constantly promising to push for a cure, as Vice President Joe Biden did recently with his "moonshot" initiative.
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The company starts with the hardest pieces of a potential "moonshot," and only funds those that can survive the toughest tests.
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He believes, for instance, that for this economic moonshot to be politically palatable, it would have to be tied to work.
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When it was founded, a TechCrunch editor asked if the fund would invest in moonshot technology ideas like a space elevator.
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Harvard psychologist Amy Cuddy says too many people focus on the moonshot goal instead of the steps needed to get there.
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Much has gone to so-called "moonshot" projects, such as self-driving cars, smart contact lenses and internet delivered via balloons.
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It might just be part of Google's—er, Alphabet's—maturation that it won't publicly bet on moonshot ideas as much anymore.
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Meanwhile, Google's so-called "moonshot factory" may also have trouble shipping products, sources told Recode in an article published this week.
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The self-driving car project, the earliest moonshot uncovered at X, is expected to graduate into its own company this year.
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To be clear, Abrash is known for intentionally making big moonshot predictions that don't reflect the state of present-day tech.
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Biden, after his son's death, launched the Cancer Moonshot Initiative last year, aiming to double the research breakthroughs in curing cancer.
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It has now raised $503 million in total since spinning out from Alphabet X, the company's moonshot lab, in May 2017.
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He'll also announce recommendations for his so-called Cancer Moonshot Task Force, which will involve both the public and private sector.
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If any moonshot projects make money, Dawson is betting on venture capital arm Google Ventures and perhaps some partnerships within Verily.
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The moonshot to cure cancer will need to enlist the nation's academic medical centers, our most powerful incubators of medical innovation.
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In the nearby Moonshot Studio, middle schoolers were making zoetropes inspired by the children's book author and pigeon portraitist Mo Willems.
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Another "Moonshot" program, the Cancer Center Cessation Initiative, supports smoking cessation help for patients in 42 cancer centers around the country.
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And there's an important point about that clean energy Congress needs to understand—we don't need a moonshot to get there.
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To advance this research more quickly, the Cancer Moonshot initiative should be tightly aligned with President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI).
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And while the division has already had some successes, it has yet to produce the "moonshot" Mr. Teller is hoping for.
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From demoing the first-ever iPhone to Elon Musk's latest moonshot, here are five must-watch videos hand-picked by CNBC.
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But this is no reason to give up hope and throw in the towel on supporting research initiatives like the moonshot.
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In late 2016, the moonshot received $18 million in funding when Congress passed the 21st Century Cures Act with bipartisan support.
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That's a big deal, as the company — which just graduated from Alphabet's moonshot factory — prepares to bring its technology to market.
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"I think she knows that the amendment is a moonshot, but at least someone is talking about it," Mr. Greenblatt said.
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The UK plans to spend £800 million ($1 billion) on its own moonshot agency to fund cutting-edge technology and research.
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But just four years later, Google, known for its "moonshot" bets on long-term tech projects, sold Boston Dynamics to SoftBank.
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Add FitBit and moonshot projects involving anti-aging and curing diseases, and Google could become your doctor's (very rich) best friend.
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To someone else it might be a moonshot, but the librarian's boundless energy and unshakable faith are what brought them here.
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Biden also spoke at a Cleveland Clinic meeting last October about his cancer "moonshot" initiative aimed at cancer detection and prevention.
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Companies drew inspiration from Google&aposs freewheeling corporate culture, to which they credited its ability to take moonshot bets and innovate.
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Over the next decade, it would direct resources toward forward-looking "moonshot projects" like balloon-powered internet and self-driving cars.
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He isn't the first person to bring up the idea of a "cybersecurity moonshot," but he points toward discrete, solvable goals.
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"There's a lot happening and I think we have realized some of those early projections were more moonshot targets," Brinley said.
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The Green New Dealers may want to spend trillions on a climate moonshot (and trillions more on their other policy hobbyhorses).
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Last year, Google spun Nest out as one of the several "moonshot" subsidiaries under the umbrella of the Alphabet parent company.
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It's possible the X Prize Foundation might award similar moonshot prizes to other former Lunar X Prize teams that reach the Moon.
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New ads, YouTube, holiday hardware sales, and the fate of moonshot investments will all be in play during Google's earnings on Thursday.
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Vice President Joe Biden is outlining how he intends to pursue his "cancer moonshot" agenda after the end of the Obama administration.
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Perspective, from Alphabet's Jigsaw — formerly Google Ideas, the company's moonshot maker — is in wide use as an automated comment moderator for newspapers.
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But something else sets the Nintendo Switch's moonshot launch title apart from previous installations: The Hero of Time has a goddamn iPhone.
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Go deeper: Pence says U.S. aims to return astronauts to the moon in 5 years NASA's moonshot whiplash Axios' Space Deep Dive
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We don't know whether he will remain at X, Alphabet's subsidiary devoted to "moonshot" projects, beyond the length of his advisory role.
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Funding moonshot-type research on storage seems like a no-brainer to me, as do prizes for incremental progress on photovoltaic panels.
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Critics have blasted politicians for hyping the moonshot plan without allocating the dollars they say NASA needs to get the job done.
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And introducing her husband's Cancer Moonshot address, Dr. Jill Biden addressed the crowd and also participated in her first-ever Facebook Live.
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What people don't know is that the Russians had their own version of the moonshot as well, but it was completely buried.
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Chronicle is graduating out of Alphabet's X moonshot group and is now a standalone company under the Alphabet umbrella, just like Google.
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Hours earlier on Tuesday, a group of biotech companies, drugmakers, doctors and researchers formally announced a coalition called the Cancer MoonShot 2020.
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The National Cancer Moonshot initiative and rapidly growing survivorship community have served as a catalyst for a deeper commitment to this program.
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She said, if elected, she would ask Mr. Biden to continue to help lead a "cancer moonshot" initiative at the White House.
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The Hasselblad cam film roll contains 126 iconic photos from the moonshot mission taken personally by Armstrong and Aldrin during their exploration.
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It's a moonshot and yet, the young company already has a number of high-profile investors willing to bet on the prospect.
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He also did a lot of self-promotion when he consulted with then-Vice President Joe Biden on his cancer "moonshot" program.
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Alphabet's moonshot bets, which include its secretive X R&D lab, lost a whopping $859 million in the second quarter of 2016.
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The age of discovery relied heavily on innovation coming out of the United States, which excels at visionary research and moonshot projects.
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We are very grateful for high profile efforts like the Cancer Moonshot and autism research, which will substantially impact pediatric medical care.
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If you are building a moonshot factory, the first thing you would be obsessed with is getting diverse perspectives in the building.
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DeVaul had been at the company for more than seven years and worked on "moonshot" projects like the Loon internet-connectivity balloon.
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The Cancer Moonshot 2020 program is aimed at developing a vaccine-based immunotherapy to combat cancer by the end of the decade.
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They are behind the small package-delivery drones already being developed by Amazon, Google's X moonshot lab, and a number of startups.
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So the real moonshot is, how do we unlock the talent of our seven billion colleagues on the planet and bring it?
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And $53 million from Cures tagged for the National Cancer Institute is expected to fund former Vice President Joe Biden's moonshot initiative.
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And the Blue Ribbon Panel Report, which describes the 10 research priorities for the moonshot, barely mentions prevention or early cancer detection.
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A SaaS company, for example, is likely to achieve profitability a lot quicker than a moonshot bet on autonomous vehicles or virtual reality.
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Vice President Joe Biden speaks with Nobel Laureate Dr. Paul Modrich about his Cancer Moonshot initiative in a Duke University laboratory on Feb.
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But even so, the X moonshot doesn't seem to be readying for a near future of drone-filled skies as rapidly as Amazon.
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Among other things, Silicon Valley types are spending billions on "moonshot" startup initiatives — it would be nice if that money were spent effectively.
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That's not counting outgoing Vice President Joe Biden's $1 billion cancer moonshot, or private projects like Sean Parker's $250 million cancer immunotherapy institute.
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Wing is a project of the search giant's moonshot division, X, formerly called Google X, now a separate business under the Alphabet umbrella.
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The drone project is now under a hiring freeze, and some employees have been instructed to seek jobs elsewhere within Alphabet's moonshot lab.
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Still, by offering little in the way of budget and policy specifics, Pence's moonshot is likely to remain on the ground for now.
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Those plans, which do include some time around Washington, D.C., revolve around working with UPenn on the Cancer Moonshot via The Biden Trust.
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At the heart of it was Abovitz, who drummed up anticipation for Leap by, say, comparing the company to NASA during the moonshot.
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Persson focuses on "moonshot investments" having previously backed VR/AR startup Varjo, Swedish self driving company Einride, and electric aviation company Heart Aerospace.
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"I view this as SoftBanks moonshot to get WeWork back on all fours," said Eric Talley, professor of law at Columbia Law School.
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"Code Club's moonshot is to have a Code Club-trained teacher or a Code Club running in every school in Australia," Tagalan said.
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Rich DeVaul, a director at X, the moonshot unit of Alphabet, Google's parent company, has left the company following reports of sexual harassment.
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The moonshot bill would authorize the IRS to release presidential nominees' tax returns in the event the nominee declined to do so voluntarily.
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Loon and Wing, which respectively launched in 2013 and 2014, have both seen substantial progress from the moonshot ideas they were proposed as.
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Y Combinator's $150,000 investment is an early step for the moonshot effort and a vote of confidence that places them on others' radar.
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FCA has an existing partnership with autonomous vehicle technology company Waymo, the former Google moonshot project that is now a business under Alphabet.
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I still feel like we're actually no closer to the moon, where the moonshot is intelligence that's really as flexible as human beings.
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YouTube said it's partnered with NGOs like Moonshot CVE to further research how best to counter extremism and to create new video content.
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Pharmaceutical companies, philanthropic billionaires and the federal government's cancer moonshot program are all racing to develop new treatments, with a handful already approved.
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A buzz is growing that Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is preparing to part ways with its largest moonshot investment, Google Fiber.
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Alphabet's moonshot "other bets" include Waymo's self-driving cars, Google's start-up investing arms, Verily life sciences research and Nest smart-home devices.
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But over the past decade, the company has grown from a moonshot startup to one of the busiest launch providers in the world.
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It actually was crafted in expectation that Hillary Clinton would be president and Biden would be almost solely focused on the cancer moonshot.
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However, the time horizons — and resources — of the private sector often don't extend to such ambitious "moonshot" projects as China is now pursuing.
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"What happened was we did a lot of good work, with your help, on the Moonshot," Biden said during a speech in Washington.
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They imagine a different path, whether it's a new approach to solving an old problem or a moonshot that leapfrogs business as usual.
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A "moonshot" in this context refers to the launch of a ground-breaking project without the expectation of profit in the near term.
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"IBM has pursued big, bespoke moonshot initiatives that can take years and are extremely expensive," said Tom Austin, a research fellow at Gartner.
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He also announced he's tapping Vice President Biden to spearhead his "moonshot" effort to cure cancer, causing the vice president to become emotional.
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Even electronic medical patient records, which are mostly digitized by now, aren't usable for the Cancer Moonshot and must be recoded, say experts.
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"The president's interested in it, precision medicine; the vice president's interested in it, cancer moonshot; I'm interested in it, regenerative medicine," McConnell said.
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"Rather than police content, it would try to disrupt the process of radicalization," said Clark Hogan-Taylor, the head of communications for Moonshot.
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Amazon's Grand Challenge team, its equivalent of the Google X lab for moonshot technologies, has made its latest high-profile health care hire.
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The political threat from far-right extremists has never been weaker, says Vidhya Ramalingam, founder of Moonshot, an organisation that combats online violent extremism.
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The lawsuit has been called a moonshot attempt to get the federal government to act on climate, and has been compared to Brown v.
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Apple's new moonshot plan is to make iPhones and computers entirely out of recycled materials by putting pressure on the recycling industry to innovate.
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Experts called the moonshot idea, which accelerates NASA's tentative 2028 plans to land astronauts on the moon by three years, ambitious and hugely expensive.
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Persson focuses on "moonshot investments" having previously backed VR/AR startup Varjo, Swedish self driving car company Einride, and electric aviation company Heart Aerospace.
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Behind the Scenes, It Became a Toxic Mess Jigsaw, "Google's internet freedom moonshot," has a mission of using technology to make the world safer.
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Last year, Google's head of business Omid Kordestani defended the company's moonshot projects, but also signaled that investors could expect more discipline going forward.
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While in office, the Vice President headed Obama's national effort called Cancer Moonshot, which aimed to do 10 years of cancer research in five.
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Maybe it's my instinctive distrust of bored billionaires treating the world as their playground, but I'm always dubious about Elon Musk's various moonshot projects.
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Immunotherapy is one of the hottest topics in biotech right now – even the White House wants in with Obama's $1 billion cancer moonshot initiative.
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Number of the day $859 million That's how much Google lost last quarter on its "moonshot" projects, like self-driving cars and Google Fiber.
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As that international moonshot ramps up, Elma and her friends — all well-qualified pilots — are shut out of the all-male astronaut selection process.
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In the wide-ranging interview, Biden also touched on Trump's differences with the intelligence community, Vladimir Putin, and the vice president's cancer moonshot program.
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Prior to founding online educational service Udacity, Sebastian Thrun headed up Google X, helping make artificial intelligence a foundation for the company's moonshot products.
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Biden's moonshot is reminiscent of Richard Nixon's 1971 National Cancer Act, which called on Congress to provide any necessary funding to battle the disease.
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Biden, who lost his oldest son to brain cancer last year, has led the Obama administration's initiative, known as the "cancer moonshot," since January.
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Aldrin said the United States' current plan for the next moonshot does not allow for significant maneuverability of the spacecraft while in lunar orbit.
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Ponto is currently the head of public policy at Project Wing, the drone project under Alphabet's moonshot lab, X. Ponto joined X in March.
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Start small: "I think one of the things is that you quickly go to moonshot projects — 'let's redo social security' [for example]," he says.
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The U.S. has its moonshot, and the president an imperative, to get it right by being the best in the world at these things.
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Working with government, industry and other stakeholders, academic medical centers will step up to the moonshot challenge and transform care for patients with cancer.
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Apollo 11 was the ninth endeavor in the 14-mission Apollo moonshot program, and it was arguably NASA's most dangerous and ambitious mission ever.
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In January, Dr. Soon-Shiong announced a Cancer Moonshot 2020 program, in which companies like Celgene and Amgen would cooperate on certain clinical trials.
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Harper, whose moonshot exited at 20 mph and an extremely steep 2100-degree launch angle, also had two homers in Wednesday's 210-13 victory.
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A short 12 years after Google's incorporation, cofounder Sergey Brin was already dreaming up moonshot ventures like self-driving cars and smart contact lenses.
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The moonshot factory formerly known as Google [X] revealed one of its secret projects today — Dandelion, a maker of geothermal systems for home use.
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While Alexander says he is open to mandatory funding if it is targeted to specific areas like the cancer moonshot and precision medicine, Sen.
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The "National Cancer Moonshot Summit" will be a daylong conference intended to galvanize Biden's push to double the pace of research to cure cancer.
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This is a Herculean task, a true African "digital moonshot," and we are putting money on the table to support the African Union's ambition.
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Both worked at a London think tank that focused on Islamic and other forms of extremism issues before they founded Moonshot CVE in 2015.
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The Moonshot team spends months amassing a database of search terms, uploading a list of some 20,000 that will trigger an ad on Google.
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"If you are building a moonshot factory, the first thing you would be obsessed with is getting diverse perspectives in the building," he said.
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Thrun was one of the founders of Google X, the search giant's moonshot lab, and also a pioneer of the company's driverless car project.
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"I've never seen so much support for anything as I've seen for the moonshot," executive director Greg Simon told reporters on a conference call.
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Biden, who lost his oldest son to brain cancer last year, has led the Obama administration's initiative known as the "cancer moonshot" since January.
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It's a smart rethink that focuses on the company's strength, even though it may lose the moonshot nature that's long been promoted within Google X.
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On Tuesday, Microsoft announced that it had deployed the second phase of Project Natick: a "moonshot" research project to test the viability of underwater datacenters.
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President Obama announced the National Cancer Moonshot initiative in his final State of the Union Address in January, calling on Biden to lead the effort.
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Weeks later, Obama signed a presidential memorandum, establishing the White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force, which includes heads of executive branch departments and national agencies.
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That's more than double Apple's current share price of $169.10 and a moonshot from its initial offering of $22 on this date 38 years ago.
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The Cancer Moonshot aims to speed cancer research and make more treatments available to more patients, as well as to improve cancer detection and prevention.
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Ammann and Steyn would not comment on how much money GM plans to invest in Maven, but said that this was not just a moonshot.
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Former Vice President Joe Biden stepped out in Austin, Texas, on Sunday to speak at the city's famed SXSW festival about his Cancer Moonshot initiative.
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If there is a tech bubble, and if it pops as some experts have predicted, investment dollars for "moonshot" ventures will become even more limited.
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Jigsaw, a subsidiary of Alphabet, collaborated with Moonshot CVE to develop the counter-messaging approach as a means of applying technology to imperative global threats.
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Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL has announced that it will abandon plans for a second moonshot after a crash landing in its original mission earlier this spring.
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Facebook's secretive research lab, where the company developed new hardware like its Portal speakers and researched moonshot projects like brain computer interfaces, is no more.
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Alphabet has announced that Loon and Wing — two of its X moonshot projects — are "graduating" today to become full companies underneath the Alphabet corporate umbrella.
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Democratic and Republican lawmakers have praised the agency's mission of creating major medical breakthroughs, projects of which include the Cancer Moonshot and the BRAIN Initiative.
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Republicans only have a one-vote margin in the Senate, and there's no way Mitch McConnell would waste precious floor time on such a moonshot.
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These actions follow the president's endorsement last March of a "moonshot" proposed by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff to create 5 million apprenticeships in five years.
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They are looking for a moonshot to curb gun violence, while it sounds as though Sanders would do little more than maintain the status quo.
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At SpaceX's pod design competition last January, US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx called the Hyperloop the next "moonshot," but stopped short of pledging government support.
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A moonshot isn't about the obstacles, it's about the extraordinary opportunity, and when it comes to finding a cure for cancer, it's worth the challenge.
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Colonizing another planet is certainly cooler than a giant building full of batteries, but pulling this off would be a moonshot in its own right.
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A few days before the rocket launched the Apollo 11 crew into space, about 500 people protested the moonshot program outside the Kennedy Space Center.
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" With the launching of the Moonshot initiative, he wrote, he plans to "solidify a genuine global commitment to end cancer as we know it today.
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He has also been an adviser to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., though Mr. Biden's cancer moonshot program is distinct from Dr. Soon-Shiong's.
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When Kennedy announced his "moonshot" he had the benefit of a successor who continued the effort he started as a legacy to a fallen president.
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The Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot has two pillars: injecting the urgency of now into the fight against cancer and changing the culture towards cancer treatment.
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The Cancer Moonshot initiative has also spurred Defense Department to use artificial intelligence to analyze its collection of tissue from tumors to look for patterns.
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The [markets] are signaling a lot more risk the flash 2q GDP report which may be a one time moonshot followed by the Big unwind.
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The mkts are signaling a lot more risk the flash 85033q GDP report which may be a one time moonshot followed by the Big unwind.
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Ross Frennett, CEO of Moonshot CVE, a counter-extremist data firm that's working with Google, expressed wild optimism last fall in a Newsweek op-ed.
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There's still clearly a ton of research, testing, and design work yet to be done here, and the SUMR remains a bold, moonshot-scale idea.
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More: The project was led at Facebook by interventional cardiologist Freddy Abnousi, working out of Building 8, the company's secretive unit working on moonshot projects.
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The detection has been compared both to Galileo's first observations through a telescope and "a scientific moonshot" on the scale of the Apollo Moon landings.
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Residents at Mass General are planning a virtual open "moonshot" competition, CoVent-19, hosted online, to develop a rapidly deployable mechanical ventilator within 90 days.
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Makani is the first of Alphabet's moonshot projects to have been shuttered since Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepped back from the business last December.
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When the audience was asked how many thought that moonshot was misnamed, about two-thirds of them agreed by a show of hands — including Lowy.
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Many of the problems with the moonshot initiative began with how it was mis-launched in January at the president's State of the Union address.
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Biden said he hoped efforts like the "moonshot" and GDC will help researchers spend more productive time in the lab and less writing grant proposals.
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The problem with the "moonshot" idea is that it focuses on magic bullets, at the expense of the majority of current and future cancer patients.
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Yesterday, the team from Project Wing — the experimental drone delivery project at Alphabet's X "moonshot" umbrella organization — tested a new system to manage drone traffic.
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"Moonshot is all of you it's all those people spending nights and weekends in their labs looking for the next breakthrough," the vice president said Wednesday.
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Oh, Elon, building infrastructure for the Hyperloop doesn't work like that Take a look inside London's epic Crossrail project Testing the rocket for NASA's actual moonshot
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According to The Associated Press, Biden is starting an organization that will possibly be called the Biden Cancer Initiative, as part of his Cancer Moonshot agenda.
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Vice President Joe Biden's son died from cancer, and Biden has devoted his life to what he calls a "moonshot" to try and find a cure.
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Alphabet has lost billions of dollars on its moonshot projects, and profit (and cost) have become enormously important under Ruth Porat, the company's chief financial officer.
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Google has long used its ongoing fascination with ambitious "moonshot" technologies to portray itself as a benevolent company with a mission that extends far beyond search.
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For Bezos — whose aerospace company Blue Origin, like fellow billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX, aims to make spaceflight commercially viable through recyclable rockets — the moonshot is literal.
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According to the most recent earnings report, Alphabet's "other bets," which includes all of the moonshot projects, reported a third quarter operating loss of $865 million.
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In December 2016, The Information reported that Alphabet was "scaling back" its self-driving car—another widely publicized moonshot project that geeks had high hopes for.
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And it seems very unlikely that Obama, who has made saving the planet his presidential moonshot, would nominate an anti-environment justice to take Scalia's place.
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The autonomous driving unit under Alphabet has hired its first general counsel, a further sign that the moonshot project is shifting toward becoming a standalone business.
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We've found that different phases of moonshot development benefit from different kinds of leadership, and that some individuals enjoy some phases of projects more than others.
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It does definitely feel like a moonshot idea, however, and we'll really only know if Snips can live up to such lofty ideals after the launch.
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Now that backing for big spending has returned, amid a space race among nations and private companies, it's worth scrutinizing just what constitutes a new moonshot.
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And so I think we need the moonshots, but we also need a path to the moonshot and along that path we have to be flexible.
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The federal government spends billions of dollars on research, and while some projects like the Cancer Moonshot mandate data openness, most government funding doesn't require it.
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The most realistic NASA plan for a moonshot is 2028, but that wouldn't be within President Trump's potential two terms, which could end by January 2025.
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Because once it's good and dead, you can go back to the well for the next thing—the thing that might be the moonshot that lands.
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Just eight days ago, it was one of Alphabet's moonshot projects, launching antennas attached to giant balloons into the stratosphere to beam internet down to Earth.
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Adding to what can seem like an insurmountable hurdle is the fact that the moonshot occurred less than one decade after it was announced by JFK.
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NASA no longer makes moonshot proposals, certainly nothing as bold as what President John F. Kennedy promised in 1962: We choose to go to the moon.
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It'll be interesting to see where Wing and Loon go next, since X has moonshot around a dozen projects that have had varying degrees of success.
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The success of the Cancer Moonshot depends on the nation's ability to foster this same commitment to patient-centered, collaborative innovation at every stage of action.
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"The way I see a green economy is this: I think we need a moonshot," the New York senator told Pod Save America late last month.
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Even in President Obama's State of the Union address, he talked about a new moonshot, raising our sights to become the country that finally cures cancer.
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Vice President Biden on Friday announced an executive director for his Cancer Moonshot Task Force as he pushes to speed up the search for a cure.
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That cancer "moonshot" calls for 20 percent more funding in an attempt to "make a decade worth of advances in five years," Biden said in January.
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But even setting these most moonshot-y visions aside, the reality of current VR hardware and software isn't even meeting rougher-and-readier early adopter expectations.
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The UK plans to spend £800 million ($1 billion) creating its own moonshot agency to fund cutting-edge research that has a high chance of failure.
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I don't think we come out here in a straight moonshot, but potentially we get a bit of stabilization and a bit of an uptrade here.
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Like Vice President Biden's 'cancer moonshot' initiative, the new 115th Congress should early on propose a bold oceans initiative heavy on investment, management, sustainability, and technology.
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And former Vice President Joe Biden believes his National Cancer Moonshot initiative needs lots of it — shared in ways like never before — to find a cure.
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Finally, through the federal Cancer Moonshot program, the government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to study immunotherapy and other emerging treatment options for cancer.
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Contrast this with President Richard Nixon's proclamation in 85033 when he boldly stated it was time to attack cancer with the same resources as the moonshot.
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Vice President Biden is expected to cross paths with Pope Francis when he visits the Vatican on Friday to plug his "moonshot" initiative to cure cancer.
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Perhaps he can also team up with our previous vice president, Joe Biden, who after losing his own son to glioblastoma spearheaded the Cancer Moonshot initiative.
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The concept and intention of the Obama administration's "moonshot" cancer initiative is praiseworthy, but much of its execution from day one has been fraught with missteps.
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Among the numerous biotechnology companies is Illumina, which is focused on genetic sequencing, a field which Bank of America calls a "moonshot" in the life sciences.
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In President Obama's State of the Union address earlier this year, he pledged a "new moonshot" to cure cancer, with new resources dedicated to the effort.
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Kensington Palace shared a video on Instagram announcing the new "Earthshot Prize," named after the "moonshot" concept inspired by the 1969 moon landing and scientific advancements.
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Funding for NCI and its parent agency NIH has increased over Sharpless' tenure as the agency steers the Cancer Moonshot initiative launched during the Obama administration.
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Inside Alphabet's X, the company's "moonshot factory" where Chronicle got its start, are all sorts of futuristic gadgets, from electricity-generating kites to autonomous delivery drones.
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The bill includes funding for Vice President Joe Biden's cancer "moonshot" he has spearheaded in the wake of the recent death of his son to brain cancer.
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Biden also notes in the video that he will continue his "cancer moonshot," an effort kicked off by the Obama administration and approved by Congress last year.
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Cancer After former Vice President Joe Biden announced in June an ambitious, $1 billion "moonshot" agenda to reduce cancer deaths, currently the second leading killer of Americans.
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It's a fittingly optimistic dream for a former moonshot project of Alphabet's X lab that, all these years later, looks like it's finally gotten off the ground.
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One high-altitude solution that's much closer to its goal is Project Loon, which is a part of X, Alphabet's "moonshot factory" (formerly known as "Google X").
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The heads of Alphabet's drone-delivery project are out amid infighting, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, in yet another shake-up of Google's moonshot projects.
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The moonshot metaphor is appealing because it describes a seemingly impossible task that was nevertheless achieved through good old American know-how and lots of federal spending.
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Just look at the array of initiatives included under the moonshot banner: vaccines for some cancers, combination drug therapies for others, immunotherapy treatments for still other types.
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At the Milken Institute Global Conference in May, Biden said his cancer "moonshot" initiative would be working with world leaders to promote global collaboration on cancer research.
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According to Bloomberg, part of the increased spending will go toward "moonshot" projects and a research unit that will set up R&D labs around the world.
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The thing that always rubbed me the wrong way about Google Glass though, was how after an underwhelming debut, the company seemingly forgot about its moonshot tech.
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Photo: AlphabetX, the moonshot wing of Google's parent company Alphabet, announced today that a new cybersecurity project called Chronicle is "graduating" to become a fully-fledged company.
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Betts led off the bottom of the first with a homer before hitting another solo shot in the third and a two-run moonshot in the fourth.
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The Beau Biden Moonshot, which I support, provides for $755 million in new cancer funds for the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration.
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This was the first time Alphabet has shared more information about the performance of the firm's "moonshot" projects, such as self-driving cars and Nest smart thermostats.
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The Senate is working on a similar "NIH Innovation Fund" focused on the President's Precision Medicine Initiative, the Vice-President's Cancer Moonshot and the NIH Brain Initiative.
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Details to come... Biden will talk about the economy, his "moonshot" cancer project and "news and politics of the day," according to a press release from MSNBC.
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The cancer moonshot, which is getting $1.8 billion of the NIH money to accelerate research on cancer, is one of the most high-profile efforts being funded.
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Also this week, the president released the administration's FY 2900 budget which includes a funding request to support the Cancer Moonshot initiative led by Vice President Biden.
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But Mr. Huh described the effort as an "ongoing moonshot," one that's still trained on the affordable housing problem that Y Combinator believes connects to everything else.
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Last month, the X Prize Foundation announced that even though the competition had ended, it would give SpaceIL a $1 million Moonshot Award for a successful landing.
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That said, financing a company that can achieve a quantum breakthrough is one of those moonshot investments where the return on a successful investment is basically unlimited.
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Waymo, X and Loon may be "moonshot" companies trying to change the world, but that doesn't give them the right to eat for free at Google's cafeterias.
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Among the initiatives planned by the IODP for the next three decades is probing the deep Earth -- the moonshot of hitting the upper mantle being one goal.
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At 8 pm Pacific time tonight, Tesla CEO Elon Musk will take the stage to unveil another one of his moonshot dreams: the all-electric Tesla Cybertruck.
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For example, the measure could be a way to get funding to Vice President Biden's cancer "moonshot" and President Obama's precision medicine initiative to provide individualized treatments.
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Just last month President Obama received accolades for launching a "moonshot" against cancer, which claims the lives of more than a half a million Americans each year.
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Facebook now plans to organize its product and engineering teams under three new categories, grouping its biggest moneymaking services together and separating them from its moonshot technologies.
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But in my Arizona test, including roller-coaster desert curves, this new model combined moonshot acceleration, handling, tech and versatility like no rival remotely near its price.
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In that role, Page spent much of his time researching new technologies, meeting and enlisting really smart people, and imagining what Alphabet's next moonshot bet might be.
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The cancer moonshot and precision medicine initiatives address the standardization of data collection and how data sets are stored, which will potentially make them much more accessible.
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To paraphrase her thoughts: For Joe Biden: Why didn't his work on the cancer moonshot initiative focus more on reducing the price of costly new cancer drugs?
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Then, in "Too Embarrassed to Answer," Lauren challenged Kevin with questions about Apple getting into TV, Google's crazy "moonshot" projects and a mysterious bronze-and-silver object.
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"The greatest risk is not only that our moonshot may fail, but that the nation's other public health needs will be left in the dust," Feldman writes.
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The 2503g threshold was decided during a U.S. Federal Aviation Administration summit in November 2015; participants included Amazon, Alphabet's X "moonshot" subsidiary, Walmart and DJI, among others.
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Under the Moonshot, the National Cancer Institute will work with 20 to 30 biotech and pharmaceutical companies to speed access to these compounds through one pre-approved list.
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The U.S. government is leading the high-profile fight through charismatic and committed champions such as Vice President Biden and the U.S. Precision Medicine Initiative and Cancer Moonshot.
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Project Loon, an effort from Google's X "moonshot" development program, is a network of balloons that will provide high speed Internet access to remote areas of the globe.
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This part of the bill was even renamed the "Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot" in honor of the VP's late son, who died last year after battling brain cancer.
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The NCI project, which is part of the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative, is not the first research to home-in on this stage in the development of cancer.
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This immunotherapy has shown promise in treating blood cancers like lymphomas and leukemias, and it's become an indelible part of President Obama's ambitious "Moonshot" to accelerate cancer research.
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Last week, we reported that Alphabet, the holding company for Google and all its disparate moonshot affiliates, would surpass Apple as the most valuable company in the world.
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The impressive list of backers — and the fact that Dandelion was originally incubated at Alphabet X, the company's "moonshot" factory — underscores a couple of trends worth pointing out.
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Before Obama named Smith CTO, she was a vice president at Google leading business development and later at Google X, the department where Google's moonshot projects are born.
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He called for a "moonshot" effort to cure cancer, to be led by Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., who lost his son to the disease last year.
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I'm, you know, everything from this issue of violence against women, to income inequality, to the cancer moonshot, I'm gonna devote the rest of my life to this.
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Just because other companies are making the same product doesn't mean it can't count as a moonshot, X's "captain of moonshots" Astro Teller wrote in a blog post.
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UPDATE 10/12/16 9:11am: This story has been updated to clarify that the president was not calling for an $80 billion moonshot to fund AI research.
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Earlier this year, the White House made a bold bid against cancer, announcing a new, nationwide "Moonshot" initiative to do away with the disease — once and for all.
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"Last year's moonshot in business spending is showing some signs of returning to earth," said Tim Quinlan, a senior economist at Wells Fargo Economics in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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And if Amazon is interested, you can be sure other large technology companies are also angling for a pole position in this proving ground for technology's latest moonshot.
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So, Mr. President-elect, here are a few of our suggestions regarding Moonshot: • Weigh the value of important public health initiatives, which are not just limited to cancer.
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Vice President Biden on Wednesday delivered an emotional appeal to hundreds of medical researchers whose support is needed for his "moonshot" bid to find a cure for cancer.
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The National Institutes of Health and Department of Energy are currently collaborating, as part of the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative, to use high-performance computing for cancer research.
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President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden participate in a meeting with the White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force in the Vice President's Ceremonial Office on Feb.
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It's an overwhelming agreement that crosses party lines, and could give a boost to Vice President Biden's "moonshot" bid to accelerate cancer treatments in the next five years.
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NIH is responsible for projects such as the BRAIN Initiative, the Cancer Moonshot and the Precision Medicine Initiative, which will build a 1-million person strong research cohort.
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Dozens of leading public health experts are voicing concerns about the moonshot to speed up the fight against cancer, which they say needs to focus more on prevention.
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"This Blue Ribbon Panel will ensure that, as NIH allocates new resources through the Moonshot, decisions will be grounded in the best science," Biden said in a statement.
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Y., who dropped out of the race last week, had been the next closest candidate, with her proposal for a $10 trillion "moonshot" plan for the next decade.
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The project was a bit of a moonshot from the time Michael R. Bloomberg, the former mayor, settled on the North Shore of Staten Island as its site.
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NIH research projects include the Cancer Moonshot started under former President Obama and building a 85033 million person-large research cohort to gather data that could improve health.
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They go at least 400 feet ... and it probably ain't the smartest idea -- 'cause cars are zooming by just inches from the landing spot of his moonshot dingers!!!
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The serial entrepreneur and co-founder of X, the Alphabet moonshot factory, isn't trying to contain his excitement as he presents what appears to be a decibel meter.
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To many of us in the cancer-centric community, most of moonshot has seemed to revolve around the NCI orbit, often without adequate reminder of the larger context.
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Instead, he will continue to take his whacks against cancer through a new non-profit that will carry on the mission of the Cancer Moonshot program he chaired.
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Elon Musk may have moonshot dreams of building high-speed loops that whiz passengers from city to city, but the world's tunnels are a far cry from this vision.
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The latest finalized data available from the Centers for Disease Control on new cancers and cancer deaths ends in 2016 -- the year the Obama White House moonshot initiative started.
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Joe Biden: The former VP took the stage on Sunday to talk about his cancer moonshot, and encouraged the tech industry to use its talents to help cure cancer.
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She's now pushing the 23-year-old organization toward a "moonshot" goal of reaching a 19973/50 female-male gender split in the tech industry by the year 2025.
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The five-year collaboration is part of the Cancer Moonshot Initiative, an Obama administration program led by former Vice President Joe Biden, whose son Beau died of brain cancer.
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The failure of Alphabet's Project Titan is just the latest reminder that moonshot projects are hard to pull off, even with teams of the best engineers in the world.
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We shouldn't forget that the original moonshot—the one where we actually shot for the Moon—was issued by the person who held the very same role as Obama.
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It's helpful here to compare Apple to Google and its parent company, Alphabet, which is widely seen as a leader in investing money in ambitious long-term "moonshot" projects.
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My mother, Ribhia Ali, who recently retired from her position as director of the medical lab at Jersey City Medical Center believes the Beau Biden Moonshot can save lives.
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"If the moonshot factory gives up on a big, important problem like climate change, then maybe it will never get solved," Obi Felten, a director at X told Bloomberg.
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He has never talked publicly about his flying car projects, but he has been the driving force behind Google's — and now Alphabet's — high risk, high reward X moonshot programs.
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Though both devices are still prototypes, this is the first time we've seen anything resembling a consumer product, and it suggests the technology is moving beyond a moonshot experiment.
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That's one of the reasons why, when President Obama announced the "moonshot" to cure cancer earlier this year, a lot of observers were skeptical of the choice of words.
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Sebastian Thrun, Founder, Udacity: Prior to founding online educational service Udacity, Sebastian Thrun headed up Google X, helping make artificial intelligence a foundational key for the company's moonshot products.
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It's unclear why Google has decided not to once again extend the deadline for its literal moonshot—the company has extended it on two other occasions in the past.
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Malta is another "moonshot" from the ambitious X lab, which also spawned initiatives like the self-driving car project at Google that became Alphabet, as well as Google Glass.
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The President's commitment to a moonshot against cancer, led by Vice President Joe Biden, is a galvanizing call for a renewed effort to find new tools to fight cancer.
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The measure also includes $1 billion over two years to fight opioid addiction, long a priority of both parties, and funding for Vice President Biden's "moonshot" to cure cancer.
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Bhavtosh Vajpayee, an analyst with Sanford Bernstein, writes that Baidu is already spending a concerning amount of money on "moonshot investments," with AI research alone taking half its profits.
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That's not to say that's a bad thing long term — both research firms predict long-term potential for some moonshot projects, particularly self-driving vehicles, Nest and Google Fiber.
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The distinct separation that once existed between Facebook and Oculus is already blurring as the social giant grows more willing to align its core brand with its VR moonshot.
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" And the president's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee will also meet Wednesday, where it is expected to vote on a report to the White House on its "cybersecurity moonshot.
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Greg Simon, executive director for the moonshot task force and a cancer survivor himself, told reporters before the summit that he, too, is seeing the beginning of a movement.
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The 1 billion dollars that the White House has committed to the Cancer Moonshot is a significant investment that will produce exponential benefits for the nation and the globe.
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In January, the vice president chose to formally launch the moonshot at the University of Pennsylvania's Abramson Cancer Center, in a nod to the institute's pioneering research into immunotherapy.
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The funding would directly support Vice President Biden's "moonshot" bid to cure cancer — a massive government-wide effort that was announced during last month's State of the Union address.
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The moonshot we have in mind will accelerate cancer care payment reforms and ensure patients receive well-coordinated care that reflects the latest knowledge and includes effective new treatments.
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Monday unveiled a blue-ribbon panel of experts and researchers that will advise the NIH's work on Vice President Biden's cancer moonshot.
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The X research group, often called Google's "moonshot" division, is under increasing pressure to show that at some point the company can expect a financial windfall from its projects.
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By that point Alphabet was already shopping Boston Dynamics and Schaft around as part of cost-saving and restructuring initiatives that saw other moonshot projects getting axed as well.
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The Cures bill passed both chambers recently and has the support of Vice President Joe Biden, whose "moonshot" project to "eliminate cancer as we know it" would receive funding.
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But while Moonshot is still tinkering with the content on the other end of their ads, it all means nothing if the ads don't work — which they appear to.
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The rationale behind the memo seems to be that such a "moonshot" effort is necessary to counter a growing economic and political threat from China's efforts to develop 22016G.
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A previous article in The Hill titled "Collaboration, not just money, is what's needed to fight cancer" certainly rings true to the goals of the Cancer MoonShot 2020 program.
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Indeed, he argues that one of the problems with Google X, and especially big moonshot projects like Loon and self-driving cars, was that they weren't really resource-constrained.
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Y., who dropped out of the race late Wednesday afternoon, had been the next closest candidate, with her proposal for a $10 trillion "moonshot" plan for the next decade.
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That's the project's moonshot, to use the lab's self-mythologizing lingo for projects such as stratospheric internet balloons, the ill-fated face computer Google Glass, and flying wind turbines.
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A start-up called Voatz says it has developed an app that would allow users to vote securely from anywhere in the world — the electoral version of a moonshot.
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Area 120 is a low-key version of Google's famous X moonshot factory, a place where small teams rapidly build new products in which they have a personal interest.
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The couple previously announced the creation of the Biden Foundation as a platform to advance priorities like military families, preventing violence against women and a "moonshot" to cure cancer.
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The Senate is struggling to find a path forward on a medical innovation bill that could be crucial for White House priorities such as the "moonshot" to cure cancer.
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One of the most heavily lobbied efforts of modern time, the latest cancer moonshot provides a sop to the drug industry, as steep upticks in pharma stocks are indicating.
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Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were still involved with the company, and pursued moonshot bets that are today backed institutionally by the organization&aposs parent company, Alphabet.
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Though his goal is a moonshot—the idea of bringing such a device to market even in ten years seems optimistic at best—his demeanor is anything but moony.
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Canada previously extended C$1.5 million in funding to Moonshot CVE and C$367,000 to the University of Ontario Institute of Technology to examine right-wing extremism in Canada.
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Gratta calls this process "socializing," and for about five years, he has been trying it out as he fundraises for his own moonshot: a $200 million experimental upgrade called nEXO.
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Employed by Google: 1998 to December 2019Current position at Google: Besides any cofounder duties, Sergey Brin was overseeing Google X, the company's "moonshot factory," until Google's reorganization in August 2015.
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Today appeared to be a good day for President Obama and the environment, what with the unveiling of a moonshot budget, complete with billions to improve the environment (and humanity!).
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Instead of the sexy moonshot — deploying fully driverless vehicles all across America — some companies are looking to master little feats that help validate their technology and build trust with consumers.
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The bottom line: Stay skeptical, as there are scientific and cost reasons why no one has successfully commercialized nuclear fusion, but this is a well-funded moonshot that's worth watching.
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But Republicans approved former Vice President Joe Biden's solicitation of nearly $2 billion for a cancer "moonshot" program, and another boost for federal funding on cancer research could soon follow.
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" Not everyone thinks a moonshot to Titan is a great idea: Neil deGrasse Tyson, the astrophysicist, tells Axios' Alison Snyder that he is "not a fan of destination space programs.
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Google, on the other hand, currently has a market value of more than $537 billion and is known for making long-term bets, such as its X Lab moonshot projects.
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Nitty gritty: While this project began life as part of X, a "moonshot" incubator for Alphabet, Dandelion is an independent company with a seed funding round led by Collaborative Fund.
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On Sunday, former Vice President Joe Biden stepped into the spotlight at the SXSW festival, giving a typically enthusiastic Biden speech on all aspects of his new Cancer Moonshot venture.
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And the moonshot effort to advance cancer treatment, which gained an additional $1.8 billion in the 21st Century Cures bill, is accelerating efforts to cure, or at least slow, cancer.
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President John F. Kennedy's "moonshot" rallying cry is overused; let's not mischaracterize the reason for achieving election security and convenience: We don't "do it because it's hard," for the challenge.
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In January, in his final State of the Union address, Obama announced that he was putting Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. in charge of a "moonshot" to cure cancer.
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Casually attired millennials and Gen Zers congregate in open spaces, brainstorming about things like Apollo 11, the consumer-centric, data-driven innovation program named, no doubt, to inspire moonshot ideas.
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The effort targets one of the central goals of the moonshot, which is to break down barriers between different researchers and encourage the sharing of data to aid in discoveries.
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The agency currently has a plethora of ongoing projects, such as the Cancer Moonshot and building a 1 million person research cohort as a part of the Precision Medicine Initiative.
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DARPA has a new Grand Challenge underway, but it's not an automation moonshot like the self-driving car challenges of the early 2000s or the recent (and hilarious) Robotics Challenge.
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Maybe like President Obama's Cancer Moonshot we need to encourage our best and brightest to solve these foundational problems around population, clean water, feeding the world and reducing human misery.
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Mr. Biden selected Mr. Simon in the final year of the Obama administration to lead the White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force for less than 40 percent of that amount.
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Rather than primarily funding individual efforts on single diseases, we need significant resources focused on decoding the human immune system, on a moonshot-level scale of the Human Genome Project.
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On top of that, the company saw its operating loss narrow in its "other bets" segment - this includes "moonshot" projects like driverless cars - which shows some financial discipline from Alphabet.
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Since then, he has worked with medical leaders as well as Congress in a cancer "moonshot" bid that President Obama announced during his State of the Union address this January.
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President Trump can use science and innovation to achieve his goal to restore American greatness, whether it is through launching a new "moonshot"-type initiative or creating advanced manufacturing jobs.
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When Google announced its Alphabet shuffle in August, several people speculated whether ATAP would move into one of the moonshot companies, like the X research lab, or become its own.
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So rather than competing against Apple, or Uber, they would much rather focus on their moonshot ideas and doing something truly transformational, and this replicates language that we've heard throughout history.
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Even before he became president, the US confounded the world with its contradictions: liberal gun laws and outlandish gun crime; incredible wealth and disproportionate poverty; moonshot innovations and basic literacy issues.
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Through the 21st Century Cures Act, signed in 2016, the federal government authorized $1.8 billion to fund the Cancer Moonshot initiatives over the next seven years -- funding which is still ongoing.
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Luminaries such as Bill Gates are also gathering billions in funds to work on "moonshot" technologies that could help us meet the climate goals that are outlined in the Paris Agreement.
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The company's big Oculus VR moonshot acquisition in 2014 was ambitious, but Zuckerberg's vision for the headset is vague — it's…another way to connect the world — only now with more empathy!
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Why it matters: Peter Altabef, CEO of Unisys who co-headed the Moonshot report project, tells Codebook that the White House needs to act immediately to be ready in a decade.
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"Moonshot medicine" companies — or those that offer revolutionary solutions for health care — include the aforementioned Illumina and genomics companies as well as therapy makers such as Sangamo, Vertex Pharma and Neurocrine.
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Or should the Moon be at most a silent sideshow, and the forefront of the new quest be Mars — or, as an uber-ambitious moonshot, even Titan, one of Saturn's moons?
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Editor Alex Davies hopped a plane to Winnemucca, an isolated mining town in northern Nevada that's hosting Alphabet's latest moonshot: its effort to spread the gospel of internet via broadcasting balloons.
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When it reported earnings on February 0003st, Alphabet disclosed for the first time how much it was spending on its "moonshot" projects, including self-driving cars, fibre internet and space exploration.
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However, for every moonshot, there is an endless list of insidious problems plaguing the industry that don't make headlines, but are silently killing our system (and patients), inefficiency by small inefficiency.
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This, however, is not the search engine's first time seeking third-party investors for its very own moonshot bets rather than continuing to deploy solely its own capital to the businesses.
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Perhaps a joint appreciation of space travel will be enough for Trump and Bezos to at least temporarily put away longstanding differences — though that might be the biggest moonshot of all.
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But now, a company called Space Data Corporation is claiming it developed that technology more than a decade earlier — and Google's moonshot was based in part on its proprietary trade secrets.
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Other Bets, made up of Alphabet's so-called moonshot projects, reported $210 million in revenue, more than double the $240 million it booked during this same three-month period last year.
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Vice President Biden met with a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Wednesday to discuss a medical innovation bill that could be the path to funding for his "moonshot" to cure cancer.
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Dozens of leading public health experts are voicing concerns about Vice President Biden's "moonshot" bid to speed up the fight against cancer, which they say needs to focus more on prevention.
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Biden subsequently launched a cancer moonshot initiative that has brought him into contact with cancer doctors, researchers, and executives from around the world to discuss new treatment options for the disease.
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"What seemed like a moonshot a decade ago has grown into a booming community of engaged users, creators and brands, unlike any other video platform," said Sundar Pichai, the chief executive.
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" By aligning the Cancer Moonshot with PMI and bringing all elements of our health ecosystem together, we can hopefully answer President Obama's "What if?" with an historic, "Yes, we #Can Serve.
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Project Wing, one of Alphabet's "moonshot factories" under the X umbrella, is testing delivery drones and has selected the relatively remote area for its latest voyage into the tinfoil-wrapped unknown.
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It's this sort of moonshot essence that has, in just a few short years, positioned the Northwest Indiana three-piece as low-key one of the most "futuristic" bands going today.
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If the next president of the United States wants a moonshot, here's my suggestion: Put us on a 10-year mandate for machine–readable open data at every level of government.
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The White House has already said it will prioritize more funding to combat the heroin epidemic and increasing cancer research, as part of the vice president's "moonshot" to cure the disease.
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The defining speech of the space race is widely understood to have been delivered in 1962 by President John F. Kennedy at Rice University in Houston, rallying support for NASA's moonshot.
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Meanwhile, Alphabet has been developing renewable energy projects under its moonshot division and has long been an investor in climate mitigation technologies, including the use of renewables to power its operations.
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Launched in 2012, it's a moonshot-style campaign that challenged participants to build a wireless, portable device that could diagnose 13 health conditions and capture 5 vital signs in real time.
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But this is a bit of a moonshot for J & J, but going forward, it's one we feel is very important for us to be doing at this point in time.
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With his moonshot off Gerrit Cole in the fourth inning of Game 20173, the 20-year-old Juan Soto became the third youngest player ever to homer in a World Series.
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Booker's plan would also send at least $40 billion from his separate $400 billion "Moonshot Hub" proposal to programs that are based in historically black colleges and other minority-serving schools.
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The London-based start-up, Moonshot CVE, has worked with the Anti-Defamation League and Gen Next Foundation, a philanthropic organization, to develop a pilot program tailored for the United States.
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The speech, set for the following day, represents the latest stop on his moonshot cancer effort, which has taken him to Duke University, the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University.
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It also increasingly paid attention to curbing costs and monitoring the financial viability of its so-called moonshot projects, like self-driving cars or hot-air balloons that provide internet connectivity.
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The announcement was made on Wednesday by Vice President Joseph Biden during a summit to discuss the latest developments in the White House's $1 billion "Moonshot" project to accelerate cancer research.
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She pointed to Warren's role in creating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Biden pushing his cancer moonshot, Sanders striking deals for veterans' care and her own role in negotiating farm bills.
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Booker's plan wold involve the schools in combating climate change by requiring that 10 percent of proposed "Climate Moonshot Hubs," which in total cost $400 billion, be located on HBCU campuses.
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It was conceived as an extension of the Obama administration's Cancer Moonshot, a program overseen by Biden during the final year of his vice presidency that aimed to develop cancer treatments.
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"You'd rather end on something like that — progress on cancer moonshot — than, 'Hey I ended with a whimper, ended with a CR that went into the next person's term,'" Cole said.
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Fiber had some early hiccups, but the unit has grown from a moonshot, held closely by the finance team, to a full-fledged business aiming to take on big cable incumbents.
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The Cancer MoonshotAs part of a larger $4.8 billion investment in precision medicine and biomedical research, the act promises $1.8 billion to accelerate cancer research through Vice President Joe Biden's moonshot initiative.
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Google is showing discipline with 'moonshot' spending (Business Insider) Google's parent company Alphabet reported fourth-quarter earnings this week and broke out numbers for the core Google business for the first time.
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Alphabet's X division, the "moonshot factory" where the company's most outrageous ideas are sent to sink or swim, has apparently met with businesses like Whole Foods, Domino's, and Starbucks about the service.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York on climate legislation, Sanders' climate plan provides the most detail yet on how he envisions the climate change moonshot taking shape if he is elected president.
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A moonshot is an ambitious goal, but physicist and entrepreneur Safi Bahcall is interested in what he calls "loonshots," or the neglected, unhinged ideas that then go on to change the world.
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The gambit made headlines after Google got permission from the Federal Communications Commission to use its experimental balloons, a moonshot project with the company known as Project Loon, to beam down connectivity.
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The company hopes that moonshot projects such as Uber freight, electronic bikes, autonomous driving and its development of flying cars will help it own a piece of every trip across any vehicle.
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The package could include more than $200 billion in new government funds — along with efforts to lessen regulation specifically so that moonshot projects, like Musk's so-called Boring Company, can become reality.
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They include venture firms like Atomico, one of Europe's leading investment firms and a notable backer of moonshot companies like the flying car manufacturer Lilium Aviation, and the billionaires Gates and Branson.
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The five-year collaboration is part of the Cancer Moonshot, a program started during the Obama administration and led by former Vice President Joe Biden, whose son Beau died of brain cancer.
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GDC, with an operation center at the University of Chicago, will be a key component of President Obama's "national cancer moonshot" effort to find cures and his Precision Medicine Initiative, NCI said.
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The president plans to discuss the Trans-Pacific Partnership, criminal justice reform, the White House's cancer "moonshot" and Puerto Rico's debt crisis in his meeting with the two leaders, according to Earnest.
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He asked Congress to allocate $2023 million to study new therapies for childhood cancer and to support a newly-unveiled moonshot to eradicate HIV from the U.S. in the next 10 years.
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., through the White House's Cancer Moonshot, has wisely called on hospitals and researchers to routinely share more data, which is helpful in identifying effective treatment combinations.
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After leaving office on Friday, Biden will work on foreign policy issues at the University of Pennsylvania, and is expected to continue his cancer "moonshot" through an organization called the Biden Trust.
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Google Cloud today announced that Chronicle, the enterprise security company Google's parent company Alphabet incubated under its X "moonshot factory," is moving to Google Cloud and becoming part of Google's security portfolio.
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His firm, CL9 (standing for "Cloud 9"), implies a firm focused on moonshots of sorts, and the moonshot Woz focused on was a programmable infrared remote control, which he called the CORE.
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Trying to develop private space travel is extremely expensive and likely to result in a lot of failed literal moonshot projects—a perfect sinkhole for your immense cash reserves to fall into.
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On Tuesday, a Motherboard investigation revealed that Jigsaw, Google's internet freedom moonshot, has a toxic workplace culture plagued by mismanagement, retaliation against employees, and HR complaints that don't result in any action.
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But lately, Mr. McMullin, 40, has been drawing big crowds in Utah and thousands of online supporters who see his moonshot run for president as a final refuge for "Never Trump" conservatives.
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The $220006 billion funding request would directly support Vice President Biden's "moonshot" bid to cure cancer -- a massive government-wide effort that was announced during last month's State of the Union address.
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Knox County officials say they have stopped looking for deliverance in the landing of a Maytag-size factory, a "moonshot," and frankly they are a bit tired of hearing about those years.
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Called "Tidal," the moonshot will involve monitoring fish behavior using underwater cameras and what it calls "machine perception tools," which can detect and interpret fish behaviors not visible to the human eye.
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Vice President Joe Biden will visit the Vatican later this month to address his cancer moonshot initiative at a conference on the progress of regenerative medicine, the vice president's office said Wednesday.
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YouTube, Google's Jigsaw, and Moonshot CVE have all collaborated to develop the Redirect Method, which finds users searching for keywords like "ISIS" and redirects them to videos debunking the extremist group's narratives.
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Mr. Brin moved his desk for a time to X, the so-called moonshot lab where engineers worked on projects that were likely to fail — but had big potential if they didn't.
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Project Loon, a former X "moonshot" that is now an independent business, has a mission to bring web access to two-thirds of the world's population using internet-beaming hot air balloons.
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Clearly, the time has come for Congress, the regulatory community and every American utility to come together and commit to undertaking the "moonshot" effort necessary to secure and strengthen the electric grid.
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Google's "moonshot" to deliver Internet to remote parts of the world using high-flying balloons has survived a brutal development phase, and will enter testing with carriers in Indonesia and elsewhere this year.
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Google said all along that Glass had "graduated" from Alphabet's moonshot factory, X, and a software update in June of this year proved someone was still keeping the lights on at the project.
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Not easily discouraged, the company behind Israel's attempted moonshot on Thursday, announced its intention to pursue a second mission, with already-pledged funds from private backers and hopes for public donations, Reuters reports.
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Earlier this year, both Facebook and perpetual moonshot-enthusiast Elon Musk announced plans for brain-computer interfaces that could allow us to read the thoughts of others and improve our capacity for learning.
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Malta, the renewable energy storage project born in Alphabet's moonshot factory X, is now on its own and flush with $26 million from a Series A funding round led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures .
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A common target is cancer: Earlier this year President Obama announced the National Cancer Moonshot Initiative, a $1 billion program led by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. But cancer isn't space travel.
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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama tasked Vice President Joe Biden to run "mission control" on a very personal mission for him: A "moonshot" to cure cancer, which killed Biden's son, Beau, earlier this year.
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The term "moonshot" hearkens back to President Kennedy's 2628 emotional and ultimately successful vision "to land a man on the moon and safely return him to earth" by the end of that decade.
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X, formerly Google X, is the company's "moonshot" factory, which has worked on fantastical projects like a self-driving car (now more reality than fantasy) and stratospheric balloons that can beam the internet.
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Unlike his previous home runs, it was no moonshot, just a defensive swing with two strikes that sent a 255-mile-per-hour fastball from Dylan Bundy skimming over the right-field wall.
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The Senate health committee is also still trying to reach a deal to find a way to pay for mandatory NIH funding for the moonshot that would come outside the regular appropriations process.
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There are a few nebulous energy projects percolating within its parent Alphabet — including a wind energy moonshot, solar partnership stuff and wind investments in Africa — but this initiative is coming from Google proper.
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In an interview last month with The Associated Press, the director of the scientific research department of North Korea's National Aerospace Development Administration, Hyon Kwang Il, said a moonshot was the nation's goal.
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He emphasized that the U.S. had a great opportunity to create apprenticeships for its workers and suggested Trump should target a "moonshot goal" of 5 million new apprenticeships over the next five years.
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The bill, large as it is, is expected to pass with little debate and lots of lobbying fingerprints — and a bipartisan nod to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who wanted the moonshot.
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In combination with these major milestones evolving under the Cancer MoonShot 2020 program, leading oncologists from a variety of renowned institutions have come forth to establish assorted Working Groups for different cancer types.
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Critics corner Jennifer Saba of Breakingviews: Alphabet is stuck at the letter G. The holding company of Google was created to safeguard against conventionality and let moonshot ideas, like self-driving cars, flourish.
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Perhaps Joseph R. Biden Jr.'s Cancer Moonshot initiative, unveiled in 2016, could have the necessary and expensive genetic sequencing subsidized and centrally coordinated so that it can be universally applied where promising.
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Unencumbered by bureaucracy, conformity and conventional wisdom, young people have the raw, out-of-the-box thinking that could lead to the development of the "moonshot" ideas we need to save the planet.
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Meet the 14 people reporting directly to Jassy:Babak Parviz, VP of Grand ChallengeParviz, the former head of Google's moonshot lab X, joined Amazon in 2014 to lead a secretive team called Grand Challenge.
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The company's "Other Bets" category — its non-Google "moonshot" projects — generated $145 million in revenue in the second quarter, up 33 percent, but the category collectively cost Alphabet $732 million in operating losses.
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Today, the X Prize Foundation, which organized the competition, announced it will give a $1 million "Moonshot" award to the Israeli nonprofit SpaceIL, if the organization's lander successfully touches down on the lunar surface.
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Allegations of a brutal Saudi assassination mission targeting Khashoggi, though, seems to finally be too much for some of the power players bin Salman needs to pull off his moonshot transformation plan to stomach.
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Biden, who lost his 46-year-old son, Beau, to cancer in 2015, outlined some of the plans for the Obama administration's Cancer Moonshot initiative at a June meeting at Howard University in Washington.
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Dave Vos, who headed the program since 2014, is leaving, and Astro Teller, the current CEO of Alphabet's X "moonshot" umbrella organization, will step in to oversee operations in the interim, MarketWatch reported yesterday.
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It is totally kosher to decide to fund the cancer moonshot (even though years of research hasn't made as much of a dent in cancer as reducing the number of smokers seems to have).
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Waymo, the self-driving car company spun out of Google's moonshot unit, has accused Uber of recruiting its former employees and stealing its trade secrets in order to advance its development of autonomous vehicles.
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Cashing in on the backseat Holoride, a German startup that first began as a moonshot at Audi (AUDVF) and spun off from the automaker in January, wants to bring virtual reality to the backseat.
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"They managed to touch the surface of the Moon, and that's what we were looking for in our 'Moonshot' award," Anousheh Ansari, the CEO of the X Prize Foundation, said in a tweeted video.
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Details: The report's major proposal is that the White House create a Cybersecurity Moonshot Council including a newly appointed executive director, experts and, since the problem spans most facets of government, Cabinet-level officials.
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President Obama will create a White House task force on cancer today, the first step in what Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has called a "moonshot" to cure the disease, administration officials said.
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Because of this difference, the federal government has for centuries been investing in moonshot ideas that have led to groundbreaking technological advancement, new market creation and significant improvements in the lives of ordinary Americans.
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But author and economic commentator Gurcharan Das said that the cost of the second moonshot is small compared with India's overall budget and that the project could have a multiplier effect on the economy.
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It was a bold proclamation, and it helped at the time paint a picture of Facebook as a risk-taking, moonshot-hunting Silicon Valley juggernaut in the mold of Google and its X lab.
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Image: GoogleAs noted before, Alphabet is moving the Glass team over to Google from X, its self-described "moonshot factory" aimed at developing pie-in-the-sky, more-science-fiction-than-real-life projects.
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House staffers have been trying to hammer out a final deal, which is expected to include mental health, opioids and Vice President Biden's cancer moonshot initiative, putting in extra hours around the Thanksgiving holiday.
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The programmer or designer or writer or even manager that gives up their life for a 219+ hour moonshot will comparably-speaking be compensated in bananas, even if their lottery coupon should line up.
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Critics beware, the 2016 Cancer Moonshot comes about in an era in which advancements in treatments, attitudes, research and an understanding of cancer as a disease are coming together at a crucial nexus point.
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For now, though, building a temple in outer space is a Moonshot—an interplanetary thought experiment pondering how far humanity must travel to establish a utopian society, free from national boundaries and ideological differences.
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Many people admire Ocasio-Cortez's bravery, which is a trait she referred to as a "moonshot" in an interview with NowThis in March 2019 "Brave does mean you may fail," Ocasio-Cortez told NowThis.
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Who in that chamber and beyond wouldn't want to end cancer – especially if this "moonshot" results in a well-financed, urgent cancer research and development effort that can go beyond what we have now?
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And, as a number of others have pointed out, the "moonshot" analogy falls short of the magnitude of the number of cancers that need to be "cured"--or more realistically effectively treated and managed.
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The Senate committee's bills are likely to draw controversy from at least some Republicans — it will include both President Obama's "precision medicine" initiative as well as Vice President Biden's "moonshot" bid to end cancer.
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Biden's remarks will cap a four-day conference of the country's largest cancer research group, which has been an important partner in his "moonshot" bid to speed up treatments for multiple forms of cancer.
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Biden, who lost his 46-year-old son, Beau, to cancer in 2015, outlined some of the plans for the Obama administration's Cancer Moonshot initiative at a meeting at Howard University in Washington on Wednesday.
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X, formerly Google X, is the "moonshot" division of Google-owner Alphabet, responsible for the Wing drone delivery project and the self-driving car unit that became Waymo, among other forward-looking tech-adjacent initiatives.
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What's publicly referred to as a "breach" of an energy utility could range from something barely more sophisticated than a typical malware infection to a nation-state-funded moonshot months or years in the making.
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The commercial space company has built its business model on reusability, and it has already proven its thrift with rockets: In March, Musk's moonshot marauders relaunched the first previously-used rocket ... and re-landed it!
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He gave lip service to net neutrality victories ("we've protected an open internet"), shouted out Silicon Valley, and announced a "moonshot program" to cure cancer that's going to be spearheaded by Vice President Joe Biden.
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Wing became a full company underneath the Alphabet corporate umbrella last year, alongside the likes of self-driving company Waymo and internet balloon startup Loon, after having previously been classed as an X moonshot project.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) - It will take a major shift in the way cancer research is done in the United States to meet the ambitious goals set out by the U.S. Cancer Moonshot, researchers said on Tuesday.
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Over the last few months, as Google's self-driving unit Waymo prepared to spin out of Alphabet's moonshot lab, the company made it clear (time and time again) that it's not building its own car.
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Google investors eagerly await financial details of company's 'moonshot' ventures Economists see 20% chance of US recessionBlythe Masters and JPMorgan trial blockchain project Genting and Tanjong did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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And while the company might not yet be anywhere close to meaningfully achieving its moonshot mission, it has just announced some tweaks to those aforementioned search snippets — to try to avoid creating problematic information hierarchies.
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Moreover, he said, the proposed cuts in payment for some drugs could undermine the president's "moonshot" to cure cancer and his "precision medicine initiative," to devise treatments tailored to the genetic characteristics of individual patients.
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Vice President Joe Biden, pictured between Dr. Amy Gutmann and Dr. Francis Collins, launches a "moonshot" initiative to hasten a cure for cancer at the Penn Medicine's Abramson Cancer Center in Philadelphia, Pa on Jan.
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Dr. Francis Collins, NIH director, and Dr. Douglas Lowy, acting director of the National Cancer Institute, wrote an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, published Monday, that acknowledged some skepticism about the moonshot.
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This week at the White House, President Obama will reportedly announce the next steps in his self-described "moonshot" against cancer, under the direction of Vice President Biden, as part of his Precision Medicine Initiative.
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And of course, Google X—now the Alphabet subsidiary known simply as X—runs what it calls a Moonshot Factory™, pouring investors' money into self-driving cars, internet-slinging balloons, and similarly loony projects.
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WASHINGTON — Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. will announce on Friday a corporate executive to lead his "moonshot" cancer initiative, selecting an expert who began work in 2003 to lower barriers between science and cures.
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That 1984 film, by Wim Wenders from Sam Shepard's magnificent screenplay, is Stanton's signal performance, the moonshot in a career spanning more than 200 films, his face etched across the history of postwar American cinema.
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According to Waymo, before Levandowski left what was then a part of Google's moonshot labs, he downloaded 14,000 "highly confidential" files to an external hard drive, including the design for the company's lidar circuit board.
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The business was spun out of X, the "moonshot" division of Alphabet, last year and, though it is still a work in progress, it has certainly developed from an initial crazy idea conceived within Google.
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President Obama proposed a budget with a moonshot for cancer research — something that every American cares about, but the Republicans are not even prepared to seriously look at his budget because he's a lame duck.
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We will never realize the full potential of "big data" or the Cancer Moonshot or the Precision Medicine Initiative without commonsense and long-overdue modernization of HIPAA that will free data from their current silos.
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The White House has been pushing Vice President Biden's cancer moonshot and President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative, which involves using genome data from 85033 million volunteers to help develop cures that are tailored to individuals.
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Wing became a full company underneath the Alphabet corporate umbrella last year, alongside the likes of self-driving company Waymo and internet balloon startup Loon, after having previously been classed as an X Moonshot project.
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The moonshot analogy was dated and fell short of the complexity of what needs to be done, not necessarily to "cure" cancer, but to understand it better and make it a chronic, more manageable condition.
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In 2005, Sebastian Thrun was busy building a driverless car at Stanford to prepare for a race that would eventually lead to him being hired by Google to head up their most ambitious "moonshot" projects.
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The plan comes with China preparing a multibillion-dollar national investment initiative to support "moonshot" projects, start-ups and academic research in A.I., according to two professors who consulted with the government about the effort.
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Obama looked to his science adviser and the team at OSTP to consult on a huge range of issues, including its cancer moonshot initiative, a multi-million dollar neurotechnology program, and even regulations governing commercial drones.
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Scenario Four: Apple boots Intel, and instead starts working with AMDThis is the true moonshot scenario; Apple stops buying Intel CPUs and instead starts working with AMD on semi-custom chips based on the x86 architecture.
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Trump advisor Newt Gingrich recently penned an op-ed in Newsweek (via Politico) in which he made the argument that a public-private partnership would be a moonshot-type project that would head off Chinese dominance.
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But that was all abandoned because of the desire to get to the moon and President Kennedy's push to NASA to move towards a moonshot before the Russians could do it,'" he told "The Brave Ones.
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During his 2016 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama announced the establishment of a new White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force to accelerate cancer research and that he wants a budget of $1 billion.
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Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., whose son Beau died of cancer last year, has also talked about devoting the rest of his term in office and his years after that to a "moonshot" against cancer.
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In 2013 Google (now Alphabet) started a venture called the California Life Company, or Calico, to take a "moonshot" approach to anti-ageing; the company has said it will invest up to $750m in the venture.
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The moonshot initiative aims to double the rate of progress being made on promising new therapies by bringing together the top minds in the field, funding their best work and sharing the results with the world.
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Although he started his career at big Silicon Valley law firms, he has built a streamlined practice at Moonshot Legal in recent years that covers everything from contracts and terms to intellectual property and human resources.
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"I went to President Trump and said we have to have an apprenticeship moonshot, we have to be ready to retrain people," Benioff told CNBC on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Dalian, China.
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Bron -- the biggest shortstop that's ever lived -- robbed wifey Savannah of a base hit early in the game ... stretched a ground ball to short into a double later ... and even hit this moonshot to center field.
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"The president's interested in the precision medicine part of that, the vice president is interested in the cancer moonshot part of it, I'm interested in the regenerative medicine part of it," Mr. McConnell said last week.
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One was a presentation by the NCI's National Cancer Advisory Board's moonshot blue-ribbon panel that did not fully present the scope of the initiative beyond its own role, but did invite questions from the audience.
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Indeed, Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin felt so strongly about this mission that they re-organized Google itself, creating a new parent company called Alphabet to serve as an umbrella for moonshot projects.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will ask Congress for $755 million in his budget next week to jumpstart cancer research in a "moonshot" push to find cancer cures and treatments, the White House said on Monday.
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Or when Google's Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) division, the skunkworks behind moonshot ideas like modular smartphones, gesture-sensing radar, and clothing with embedded sensors, was a reliable source of shock and awe for I/O attendees.
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The idea of a moonshot—an expensive, national, highly focused research effort—comes up in the worlds of self-driving cars, delivery drones, virtual reality systems, data-driven health care programs, and other ambitious Silicon Valley endeavors.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden on Wednesday announced plans as part of the administration's "Cancer Moonshot" initiative, aimed at speeding development of treatments by cutting bureaucracy and easing collaboration between scientists, industry, patients and government.
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As part of an overall restructuring and cost-saving strategy set forth by Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat last year, the company has taken significant measures to slim down its experimental efforts and rein in its "moonshot" projects.
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The startup has launched pre-orders this week for the moonshot of moonshots, the Speeder, a personal vertical take-off and landing vehicle with a svelte concept design that looks straight out of Star Wars or Halo.
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It is unsettling to realize that not every startup is a moonshot, that entrepreneurship is not as glamorous as it might look on TV and that the Angel of Death visits these companies more often than not.
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And while he won't reveal the moonshot factory's employee count or operating budget, he makes clear that no matter how much money you might think X spends, it's piddling compared to the value of what it creates.
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"Throughout this campaign, Hillary Clinton has called for expanding investments in innovation for healthcare, from a cure for Alzheimer's to building on Vice President Biden's Cancer Moonshot initiative," campaign spokeswoman Julie Wood said in an emailed statement.
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The startup has launched pre-orders this week for the moonshot of moonshots, the Speeder, a personal vertical take-off and landing vehicle with a svelte concept design that looks straight out of Star Wars or Halo.
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Other Microsoft healthcare initiatives involve computer vision in radiology to note the progress of tumors over time and a project which Microsoft refers to as its "moonshot" aims to program biology like we program computers using code.
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That includes $1 billion in new funding for treating opioid addiction, a national epidemic that's taken prominence on the presidential campaign trail, and another billion for cancer research as part of Vice President Joe Biden's "moonshot" initiative.
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Vice President Biden's Cancer Moonshot initiative seeks to double the pace of progress, a goal that cannot be achieved unless the cancer care infrastructure and delivery system is healthy with full patient access to ever-improving treatments.
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Ahead of Trump's inauguration, congressional Republicans led by House Speaker Paul Ryan drew up a moonshot plan to make their tax cuts permanent, one that dovetailed with their rallying cry for the better part of a decade.
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Another projects wants to construct detailed simulations of how cancer develops in different patients' bodies, while one particularly ambitious project — which Microsoft is calling its "moonshot" effort — aims to create biological cells that are programmable like computers.
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"Some of the best leadership coming from the Hill now, in terms of funding of this first year of a new moonshot, is being led by Republicans," Biden told a roundtable at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
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The panel, which includes experts from institutions such as MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, will issue recommendations that will inform a final report from government leaders on the cancer moonshot task force.
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When I called Mr. Davenport last weekend, he said he had abandoned the party and would vote for Evan McMullin, a former C.I.A. operative who began a moonshot bid for the presidency as an anti-Trump independent.
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Vice President Biden on Tuesday discussed on a live TV microphone his unconfirmed post-White House plans to continue his efforts on the "cancer moonshot" and to work out of the University of Pennsylvania on foreign policy.
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He worked for IBM and Microsoft; he was a VP at Google and then chief business officer for Google X, the famously secretive "moonshot" factory known for tackling with innovation some of largest problems affecting the world.
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Safely ensconced in Google's so-called moonshot factory, the self-driving car project did not face the type of financial pressure to commercialize its technology that a start-up or a company without Google's resources would have.
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Policymakers ought to embrace reforms, be it the prudent recommendations of the Moonshot or 21st Century Cures, that allow medical innovation to flourish while also pursuing new contracting and payment strategies that lower access barriers for patients.
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We throw around terms like "moonshot" and "disruption," but can't reliably tell a health plan consumer the location of a doctor's office, if they are taking new patients or even if their providers are among the living.
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During the past year, we've written several times in The Hill about some of the shortcomings related to moonshot, especially regarding the partisan and nationalistic nature of its origin, and the lack of clarity in its organization.
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That will be good news for the people clamoring to pay a monthly fee to play Angry Birds on their Apple TV.As far as moonshot projects go, it appears that Apple has two big things in the pipeline.
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Money. Money. That was effectively the only conversation missing from Facebook's F8 conference — an event that even made time for a progress update on a moonshot project that might one day allow us to hear through our skin.
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As part of a cost-cutting process initiated by Alphabet CFO Ruth Porat, divisions like Fiber, smart appliance maker Nest, and the moonshot-oriented X have been hit with executive reshuffles, budget cuts, layoffs, and even shut downs.
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Despite the current money pit that is Alphabet's moonshot ideas—they cost Alphabet nearly $3.6 billion last year—Google still makes enough to hit the top spot, roughly $74.5 billion in revenue and total income of $23 billion.
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As Americans celebrate the moonshot anniversary for most of this week, with Saturday being the anniversary of the lunarlanding, NASA is aiming to revive its new lunar program dubbed Artemis, the Greek goddess and twin sister of Apollo.
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Almost every one of us in here has lost someone relatively close to us," Biden said as he kicked off the administration's cancer moonshot summit in Washington, D.C. "We're all here because we can do something about it.
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Last week, President Obama, as part of his moonshot to cure cancer, asked Congress for $2202 million in new, mandatory multi-year spending and appointed Vice President Biden to oversee and integrate the efforts of thirteen government agencies.
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"Last year, Vice President Biden said that with a new moonshot, America can cure cancer," Obama said Tuesday, referring to Biden's speech in the Rose Garden last October when he promised an all-out effort to end cancer.
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Funding Joe BidenJoe BidenPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat Joe Biden faces an uncertain path The Memo: Trump pushes back amid signs of economic slowdown MORE's cancer moonshot.
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This unprecedented alliance of Cancer MoonShot 220006 comprises of large pharma, biotech, major payers, fortune 2202 companies, academia and community oncologists to accelerate this combination immunotherapy approach as the next generation standard of care in patients with cancer.
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Green New Deal A large proportion of Democrats might like the environmental principles behind the Green New Deal, but it makes some moonshot promises that seem fanciful, and unlikely to become reality with a Republican President and Senate.
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That bill bundled $1 billion in spending to fight the opioid epidemic with $2 billion in funding for Vice President Joe Biden's cancer research "moonshot" and alternatives to incarceration for people suffering from mental illness and substance abuse.
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Burnett, whose daughter died from cancer at 38 in 2002, introduced Biden at his daylong summit at Howard University in Washington, D.C., where scientists, oncologists, donors and patients came together in support of the vice president's "Cancer Moonshot" initiative.
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In parallel, the company has also been working on a more moonshot-y solar-powered high altitude drone engineering to try to bring Internet access (and thus social media access) to remoter areas that lack a reliable Internet connection.
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"Helium-3 is the ideal fuel for fusion reactors and fusion rockets, making available nearly infinite energy for an expanding civilization and enabling spacecraft with the ability to achieve our next moonshot after Titan — the reach for the stars."
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WASHINGTON — President Obama signed a presidential memorandum on Thursday creating a White House task force on cancer, the first step in what Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. has called a "moonshot" to cure the disease, administration officials said.
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The former vice president will speak at the South by Southwest Conference (SXSW) in Austin, Texas, on March 12 at 3:30 PM, where he'll reflect on on the Cancer Moonshot he started while still in the White House.
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The newest treatments are training the immune system to hunt tumor cells, medications are keeping cancer growth in check, and policy efforts like the Vice President's Cancer Moonshot are helping bridge all of those efforts into a unified assault.
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Find us at Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenEight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Hill Reporter Rafael Bernal: Biden tries to salvage Latino Support Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report MORE's Cancer Moonshot exhibit.
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" The idea that resources might be better spent trying to delay aging rather than to cure diseases flies in the face of most disease-related philanthropy and the Obama administration's proposal to spend $220 billion on a "cancer moonshot.
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Syapse, backed by venture capitalist and former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya, was one of the companies tapped by President Obama's "cancer moonshot, " initiative, a national effort to move the disease closer to a cure in the next five years.
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During his address at Mashable's Social Good Summit on Monday, the Vice President spent about 40 minutes educating the audience on his Cancer Moonshot initiative, which aims to eradicate cancer from society by improving research, patient care and more.
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It's what I did when I worked across the aisle to save us from a depression and to put together the historic Cancer Moonshot to enable critical scientific research, find a cure, and end cancer as we know it.
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As Google ballooned from simply a search engine to a huge company with dozens of diverse projects, Brin has been the mastermind behind some of the most ambitious ones as one-time head of X, the company's moonshot factory.
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Known as Alphabet's "Moonshot Factory", X is a research and development unit that acts as a nursery for the company's many offshoot projects, such as Waymo, Wing, Makani, Loon and others, helping them take root as viable separate entities.
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The project, known as Genomic Data Commons (GDC), with an operation center at the University of Chicago and funded by the U.S. National Cancer Institute, is a key component of President Obama's national cancer moonshot and Precision Medicine Initiative.
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Then he issued a "moonshot" challenge: Devoting resources to the National Institutes of Health to cure cancer — a mission he placed in the hands of Vice President Joe Biden, who last year lost his son Beau to the disease.
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Freshman orientation, Iran and Biden's cancer 'moonshot' Almost 60 new members of the House and Senate will attend freshman orientation sessions this week when they will learn tips about hiring staff, running a congressional office, and abiding by strict ethics rules.
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With a market size already at $110 billion, the Bank of America team highlighted five key sub-themes — genomics, big data/AI health, future food, "ammortality" and "moonshot medicine" — as well as several stocks that offer exposure to the trend.
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The device has been moved out of Google parent company Alphabet's X "moonshot factory" and into the Google family of products, letting Google "meet the demands of the growing market for wearables in the workplace," according to a blog post.
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A White House advisory committee voted Wednesday to recommend an ambitious cybersecurity "Moonshot" program aimed at coping with future threats, including the formation of a council set to address the kinds of problems that might only emerge in a decade.
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Wall Street veteran Ruth Porat has been seen as the architect of holding company Alphabet, living up to predictions that she would return cash to shareholders and reign in "moonshot" expenses after joining Google as chief financial officer in 2015.
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"Moonshot" has echoes of President's John F. Kennedy's stirring 1961 speech in which he called for a space program that could send a man to the moon and return him safely — a goal that was achieved only eight years later.
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After defining the company's far-flung connected dreams when it was first announced in 2013, the enterprise-refocused headset is graduating from the X moonshot factory with a new hardware update that aims to make it more approachable for companies.
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Organizing the company around areas of expertise rather than broader divisions is probably more appropriate for a moonshot effort that can't afford redundancies, on the other hand, keeping expertise siloed could isolate new approaches and advancements from reaching other teams.
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So in December, the division was moved inside X. The X team will first have to review the various projects and refocus them toward solving specific problems that would be reframed as a particular moonshot effort, according to Ms. Hohne.
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Moonshot Wu told reporters China is still studying the possibility of sending a man to the moon, but focusing on robotic lunar missions for now, including making the first soft landing on the far side of the moon around 2018.
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"We are seeing a tremendous opportunity for Cures, with our legislative efforts coupled with the 'moonshot' and the administration's Precision Medicine Initiative, there is no question that 21st Century Cures is the right vehicle to get this done," the lawmakers added.
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Google is not deploying its moonshot Project Loon to provide connectivity, instead, it is partnering with Nigerian fiber optic telecoms service provider 21st Century to roll out Wi-Fi spots at public places such as colleges, malls, markets and bus stations.
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We disagree with Dr. Breivik's premise that the moonshot is pointless, as children and younger adults with cancer deserve the chance to be cured even if that means they might relapse or develop a secondary cancer at an older age.
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The reality is that Alphabet was still staring down years of expensive R&D before it could profitably sell its robotic creations, and Boston Dynamics and Schaft became victims of the company's efforts to scale back its bleeding-edge moonshot investments.
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Biden's 46-year-old son Beau passed away from the disease last Spring and President Obama announced Biden would be in charge of a $1 billion national cancer moonshot initiative during the President's last State of the Union address in January.
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More than three years after Facebook released one of the biggest gambles in its existence, a virtual reality headset it paid billions to launch as its own, the company has grown more embattled, but its moonshot VR flagship has grown safer.
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The potential of immunotherapy is massive and with all of the brilliance involved in the Cancer MoonShot 85033 program, we're looking forward to continuing to work toward our goals at the pace we are making life changing discoveries along the way.
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The companies, Lee said, takes the "very best researchers from Microsoft Research" and integrates them with some of Novartis' top scientists to establish joint teams to work on "moonshot" projects including macular degeneration, cell and gene therapy, and drug design.
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The moonshot nature of these candidacies, and the fervor for them regardless — the candidates, in both parties, have made the rounds on Fox News and become darlings of conservative media — underscores the fame and rancor that have surrounded Ms. Ocasio-Cortez.
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If the goal is to move our healthcare system into the 28503st Century with this legislation, the Cancer Moonshot and the Precision Medicine Initiative, why include a provision that preserves outdated reimbursement policies that increase costs for the American public?
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X Known as Alphabet's "Moonshot Factory," X is a research and development unit that acts as a nursery for the company's many offshoot projects, such as Waymo, Wing, Makani, Loon and others, helping them take root as viable separate entities.
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Accelerating the Alphabet-owned company's ambitious autonomous-driving progress is a hidden city built for robot cars, and simulation software called Carcraft spun out of Alphabet's "moonshot" research wing, X. Meanwhile, here's where Apple is heading with its self-driving tech.
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Sharapova in particular could appreciate it, in light of her own moonshot journey to stardom after leaving Russia as a young girl with her father, with no guarantees and less than $26,000 between them, for the Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Fla.
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Earlier, there was a taste of the character assassination to come when Trump's son, Donald Trump Jr. warmed up the crowd by accusing Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden of "groping" and mocked the cancer moonshot of a man whose son died of the disease.
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Deloitte is working in conjunction with the National Cancer Institute and Vice President Joe Biden's Cancer Moonshot initiative to bring some of the best and brightest minds together to rid the world of what is the No. 1 leading cause of death globally.
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They know that the radical alteration of Earth's climate isn't just something that's going to happen in 100 years if we're not careful, or in 50 years if we don't change our economy and moonshot the crap out of science and technology.
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Cranston's production company, Moonshot Entertainment produced All The Way and has developed various television series including Sneaky Pete, The Dangerous Book for Boys, and Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams for Amazon, as well as the Emmy-nominated animated series SuperMansion for Sony/Crackle.
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Why it matters: Bezos, along with other billionaires like Elon Musk, has been criticized for focusing his resources on moonshot projects like space travel instead of immediate problems on Earth (he did recently announce a $2 billion investment in early education and homelessness).
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Both men previously worked at Google/Alphabet/Waymo — Levandowski on autonomous vehicles (first at Google X, the company's moonshot division, and then at Waymo, which was spun out as an independent subsidiary business of Alphabet, Google's holding company) and Ron at Google Maps.
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Go deeper: Huawei never excluded from New Zealand's 5G network construction: NZ PM(Xinhua) Trump sends bizarre '6G' tweet, as China trade talks resume (CNBC) Conservative voices call for a 'wireless moonshot' ahead of the Mobile World Congress but skepticism abounds (Asia Times)
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" "Climate change is the most serious threat to humanity today, and we need immediate and bold action to address it before it's too late," the 2020 Democratic presidential candidate said in a Medium post Thursday, adding, "Climate action should be this generation's moonshot.
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The organizers behind a 10-year mission to launch a robotic space exploration said Tuesday that the Google-sponsored "moonshot" has ended because the five finalists are unable to meet the March 31 deadline due to shortage of funds, technical and regulatory challenges.
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Wildly ambitious projects, openness to working with all parties (including Linux!), and dudes hugging each other and saying "I love you" on stage — Microsoft seems infused with the same passion and energy that animates moonshot startups that eventually become multibillion-dollar businesses.
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This makes Arrival sound like more of a conventional thriller than it really is, but to be fair, Villeneuve lulls us in with a character arc that, at first glance, doesn't look that much different than Gravity, another thoughtful science-fiction moonshot.
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Pichai oversees Alphabet's reliable revenue drivers like digital advertising, cloud services, Android software, and devices, while Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin go all in on so-called "moonshot ideas" like self-driving cars and renewable energy under the Alphabet umbrella.
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Read more:9 moonshot ideas that became real-life innovations, from driverless cars to birth-control pills9 things that can make your birth control methods less effectiveGetting your second IUD might not be as painful as getting your first, here's what to expect
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden's Cancer Moonshot initiative to speed the develop of cancer treatments has made some important strides such as increased information sharing among researchers but still faces challenges in many areas, according to a report on Monday.
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The superhero grudge match is the studio's $250 million moonshot, painstakingly engineered to begin a new, multifilm franchise that is based on the DC Comics characters and to compete with the movies its rivals at Marvel have been making for nearly a decade.
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From its humble origins as a search engine run in a garage, Google has grown to be a company conglomerate called Alphabet employing 90,000 people that is a world leader in AI research, open source technologies, self-driving cars, and literal moonshot ideas.
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"The big question with clean coal has always been whether it's a moonshot or a money pit," said Charles Grayson, the director of the Bigger Pie Forum, which advocates fiscal conservatism in Mississippi and has been critical of the Kemper project for years.
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His pioneering work on the Cancer Moonshot 2020 initiative has recently been featured in Nature and the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA.) Read more about Dr. Soon-Shiong and his decades-long quest to change the current paradigm of cancer care.
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But neither the company nor its quantum-happy boss have said much about another quantum computing team at Alphabet, at its secretive lab X. X, formerly known as Google X, is dedicated to incubating "moonshot" technologies that might underpin new Google-scale businesses.
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President Obama would like a bipartisan postelection accomplishment, and many in his party would like to give it to him, especially since the bill addresses the cancer moonshot associated with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., whose son died of a brain tumor.
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The vice president first announced last October that he would pursue a "moonshot" effort to cure cancer while formally declaring that he would not seek the presidency, and President Barack Obama announced the initiative during his January State of the Union address.
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I also inquired about press coverage at the event, noting that one of the first moonshot venues held at the University of Pennsylvania's cancer center had been restricted to reporters selected by the White House, according to a Penn public affairs representative.
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This overarching perspective was also absent during a press briefing on the initiative that did include one of the NCI's blue-ribbon panelists but no one representing the moonshot's overall effort — the Cancer Moonshot Task Force — and focused largely on ASCO's contributions.
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While earning her MBA at Stanford GSB, Shen has completed two summer internships: one at X, Google's "moonshot factory," working on business strategy for an early-stage energy project, and a second as a policy fellow in Mitt Romney's US Senate office.
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Then the moonshot initiative — or whatever name might be more applicable — could have had the credibility, structure, support and accountability to make more meaningful strides to deal with the disease that has had many casualties, but 15 million Americans have survived, as well.
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President John Kennedy's moonshot mission in the 1960s that landed a man on the moon has become an inspiration for conquering cancer, one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with more than 14 million new cases and 8 million deaths each year.
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With a masters degree from Stanford in theoretical computer science — and seven years as a product manager on the rapid evaluation team at X charged with coming up with the company's next moonshot technologies — Kathy Hannun was well prepared to create Dandelion Energy.
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The operation was started in 2012 inside what was then known as Google X, the "moonshot factory" created by Google's founders to incubate potentially world-changing ideas that wouldn't be expected to contribute meaningful revenue to the company for many, many years.
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But the idea was dead on arrival; Trump was not in office yet, and the Obama administration supported the legislation, which among other things would finance the Cancer Moonshot initiative that Joe Biden planned to make his life's work after leaving office.
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In recent days Biden has spoken out about his future, with the Associated Press reporting that Biden said he intended to pursue his "cancer moonshot" agenda after leaving the White House, which would look at how the U.S. conducts its cancer research and development.
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Loon started life as one of Google's moonshot projects, like the Waymo self-driving car program, but it was spun out into a standalone company under Alphabet last year, roughly a year and a half after Westgarth, a telecom industry veteran, took over as CEO.
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Google lost close to $1 billion from the division, which includes its X lab and the various other companies, like the Waymo self-driving unit and the Loon balloon internet service, that were born as so-called moonshot ideas and turned into full businesses.
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Apart from having an active network, Sigfox also has a strong moonshot game: It believes that its flavor of IoT architecture could help eliminate data roaming, the cost and complexity of embedding silicon in connected objects and even the need for batteries in devices.
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There's the "cancer moonshot," the Biden Cancer Initiative, which was born out of Biden's wrenching personal history with his son's death from cancer in 2015, and the Biden Foundation, which focuses on the social issues he's kept close — namely gay rights and violence against women.
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What they're saying: "A lot of cybersecurity today is how can we patch this problem in the next five days or months, or legislate a solution before the next election," says Altabef, co-chair of the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee's Moonshot working group.
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"What we are doing is not a moonshot, but rather just good engineering," Albemarle's lithium unit head, Eric Norris, said at a private dinner earlier this summer attended by State Street Global Advisors, Goldman Sachs Group Inc and other top shareholders, according to two sources.
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Altman acknowledges that the best solution is still emissions reduction — and he's invested in nuclear power companies that could be a part of that solution — but the growing consensus is that emissions reduction may no longer be enough (unless a moonshot discovery is made).
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RBC estimates operating losses of $3 billion to $6 billion for 2015 for Alphabet's moonshot projects, which include Google Fiber, Calico, Nest, Verily (formerly Google Life Sciences), GV (formerly Google Ventures), Google Capital, X (formerly Google [X]) and other initiatives, according to the company.
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However, as interest in Spectacles has cooled, Blakely wonders if this was really just a beta test for the next version of Spectacles: A product that will likely be delivered in a post-IPO environment where the appetite for moonshot hardware may be diminished.
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Why 'Moonshot' Has No Place in the 21st Century The Best Gear to Take to the Moon Spaceflight and Spirituality: It's Complicated A WIRED Booklover's Guide to the Moon Photo Gallery: How the World Watched Apollo 11 Lunar Mysteries That Science Still Needs to Solve
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"A couple of months ago after Beau passed when I was deciding not to run for president, I said, 'Had I run, I would like to have been the leader of a major moonshot that would cure cancer,' " Biden, 73, said on Good Morning America.
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Thus we get a potted biography of Frederick Taylor, the father of industrial efficiency; an account of NASA in its moonshot era; the story of Horatio Nelson's victory at Trafalgar; and mini-lectures on subjects as diverse as game theory and the Navy SEALs.
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Vice President Biden on Thursday hinted that key GOP leaders are willing to support his billion-dollar request for cancer research funding this year Biden declared Thursday "there's total bipartisan support" on Capitol Hill for his ambitious moonshot campaign to accelerate cures for cancer.
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American ingenuity working with the U.S. military turned radar into a decisive practical navigational system that helped the Allies win World War II. American ingenuity working with NASA created the Apollo moonshot telemetry guidance system that became the foundation of our digital economy today.
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A growing number of researchers, myself included, believe that the only way to reverse the extinction crisis is through a conservation moonshot: We have to enlarge the area of Earth devoted to the natural world enough to save the variety of life within it.
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While the idea of writing voters a blank check for candidate donations may seem like a moonshot, it's actually a program that's already been implemented (to limited success) in Seattle, and one that's getting more consideration from other cities and states across the country.
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Having already spent billions on research programs, China is readying a new multibillion-dollar initiative to fund moonshot projects, start-ups and academic research, all with the aim of growing China's A.I. capabilities, according to two professors who consulted with the government on the plan.
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A series of initiatives, investments and collaborations among government agencies, the private sector and academic institutions were also announced at the summit in an effort to advance one of the moonshot goals of making a decade's worth of scientific and treatment progress in five years.
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"I do not know of another way this year to get support for the president's Precision Medicine Initiative or support for the cancer moonshot or a surge for mandatory funding for the National Institutes of Health unless we act on this bill," he said.
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House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) has made the bill his signature issue and has tried to use the White House push for the cancer moonshot to jump-start a Senate process that has gone far slower than he hoped.
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A true moonshot on cancer would require creating a Cabinet-level cancer Czar charged with ensuring procurement and investment decisions in the public and private sectors to discourage the purchase, use and disposal of cancer-cancer agents, as well as seeking innovations in treatment.
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Earlier this year, Barack ObamaBarack Hussein ObamaDick Cheney to attend fundraiser supporting Trump reelection: report Forget conventional wisdom — Bernie Sanders is electable 2020 Democrats fight to claim Obama's mantle on health care MORE put Vice President Biden in charge of his "cancer moonshot" initiative.
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American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race by Douglas Brinkley Douglas Brinkley is one of the best-known public historians out there, known for books about US presidents like Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and as well as books about the Louisiana Purchase, Hurricane Katrina, and World War II. His latest, American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race, draws on his expertise in presidential history, and explores how the US space program unfolded, exploring the political landscape that President John F. Kennedy had to navigate, as well as the engineers and scientists who developed the technology that made the mission possible.
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In a conference call to discuss the results, they found innumerable ways to ask two simple questions: How fast is the traditional Google business growing, and how much of its money will be funneled toward "moonshot" projects like self-driving cars and drones that deliver packages?
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This is less easily felt when we're dealing with the other kind of greatness: the one pushing Ledecky and Phelps not so much through as over Rio's swimming pools, or the one propelling Simone Biles through every twisting moonshot and bringing her down so loud and steady.
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While serving as vice president, Biden was responsible for the "Cancer Moonshot" initiative which "accelerate(s) cancer research aims to make more therapies available to more patients, while also improving our ability to prevent cancer and detect it at an early stage," according to the organization's website.
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Instead of aiming for an AV moonshot — an autonomous truck that makes all the driving decisions without any human intervention — Starsky says it's taking a more practical approach that combines highway automation with teleoperation, allowing remote drivers to navigate trucks between distribution centers and the highway.
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Mr. Rubin originally said that the robotics division would be a 10-year moonshot, and when he was in negotiations to acquire companies he talked about the possibility of the driverless Google car rolling up to your house and the Google robot jumping off the back bumper.
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In the first, STAT found that Soon-Shiong's much-touted cancer moonshot initiative, which aims to develop a cure for cancer by 247, has made little scientific progress and instead has functioned mostly as a marketing vehicle for one of his new products, a cancer diagnostic tool.
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Why 'Moonshot' Has No Place in the 21st Century The Best Gear to Take to the Moon Spaceflight and Spirituality: It's Complicated A WIRED Booklover's Guide to the Moon Lunar Mysteries That Science Still Needs to Solve Q&A: Photographer Dan Winters on His Apollo Obsession
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Why 'Moonshot' Has No Place in the 21st Century The Best Gear to Take to the Moon Spaceflight and Spirituality: It's Complicated A WIRED Booklover's Guide to the Moon Photo Gallery: How the World Watched Apollo 11 Q&A: Photographer Dan Winters on His Apollo Obsession
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It can be an ideal place for fostering collaboration, as echoed by the meeting's theme, "Collective Wisdom," Vice President Biden's calls for collaborative efforts in his cancer "moonshot initiative," and team science ventures inspired through such efforts as the Entertainment Industry Foundation's Stand Up To Cancer initiative.
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The "Two Bombs, One Satellite" project of the 1960s and '70s, through which China built its first atomic bomb, hydrogen bomb and satellites — at a time when such achievements seemed well beyond its reach — remains a resonant historical example of successful "moonshot" projects that enhanced national power.
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Trump's moonshot on Tuesday night was to call for the eradication of HIV transmission in the U.S. by 2030—a laudable goal, but a somewhat fantastical one given it would require him to work with communities upon which his other policies have inflicted the most damage.
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But even if Ms. Long says Mr. Trump's candidacy spurred her moonshot bid for the Senate and shaped much of her current thinking about immigration (build a wall), Muslim refugees (the country needs "extreme vetting") and trade (keep American jobs American), her politics are no dalliance.
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This is a fitting metaphor for the get-it-now chutzpah that has galvanized Houston to pioneer the moonshot, build some of the world's finest heart and cancer hospitals, nurture musical talents like Lightnin' Hopkins and Beyoncé, and establish art temples for Mark Rothko and James Turrell.
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Alphabet was designed to split Google into its main business, which includes its search engine and nearly a dozen other massive products, and the other disparate arms of the company, like its X lab (formerly the Moonshot factory Google X) and now its self-driving unit Waymo.
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In an attempt to connect the rest—not just to the web, but to its proven socio-economic benefits—the African Union and World Bank recently launched Moonshot Africa, an initiative to double broadband access on the continent by 2021, and make it universal by 2030.
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There is some speculation internally that even if things at Google don&apost change, Pichai may rein in investments to some of Alphabets various subsidiary companies and the more far-out "moonshot" projects, a group that includes everything from self-driving cars to internet beaming balloons.
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To succeed, the Trump administration needs to assume the leadership Biden was given previously as vice president to foster cooperation and collaboration among the various federal agencies and institutions with relevant resources, and to guide moonshot in a direction that maximizes its value to public health.
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"I firmly believe 50, 100, even 1,000 years from now, there will be people dying of cancer; however, I do believe that we can do better" to fight the disease, Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society, said in January when Moonshot was announced.
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Yet it looks like the moonshot factory is continuing to cost Google a fortune as it tries to spin up new and profitable ventures that can, one day, take more of the weight off its ad division, as the Pixel and cloud businesses appear to be doing today.
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Meanwhile, some scientists also lamented the loss of Obama's various science initiatives, noting that less than 13 percent of scientists felt President Barack Obama's three major biomedical research campaigns—The Precision Medicine Initiative, the BRAIN Initiative, and Vice President Joe Biden's cancer "moonshot" initiative—will continue as planned.
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During his appearance, Biden revealed that Cancer Moonshot — which aims to accelerate cancer research and make more therapies available to patients — began during an "off-hand comment" that he made to former President Barack Obama following the 2015 death of his son Beau, who died from brain cancer.
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In its just released financial statements for the first quarter of 2016, the company once again split its numbers into two categories: Google, which is its core web business, and "other bets," like its life sciences business Verily, its moonshot lab X, and the self-driving cars project.
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While working in the Obama administration, Biden was responsible for the "Cancer Moonshot" initiative, which "accelerate(s) cancer research aims to make more therapies available to more patients, while also improving our ability to prevent cancer and detect it at an early stage," according to the organization's website.
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And it does not include Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenEight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Hill Reporter Rafael Bernal: Biden tries to salvage Latino Support Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report MORE's $85033 million impassioned proposal for a "moonshot" to cure cancer.
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The difference, of course, is that Sanders is not declaring the end of big government; he is in fact campaigning to restore a high rate of public investments in the spirit of Franklin Roosevelt (public works), Dwight Eisenhower (the highway system), and John Kennedy (the moonshot and more).
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At the interactive Cancer Moonshot booth, people will be able to learn and test technology that is being used in an ongoing clinical trial called ATOM-HP (Analytical Technologies to Objectively Measure Human Performance), a joint effort between the National Cancer Institute and the U.S. Department of Defense.
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After providing the caveat that "moonshot" projects from the likes of Google are also working on flying cars and that they will need to cross major technical and legal hurdles, he described how the company is getting a head start by building autonomous electric aircraft for maritime surveillance.
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In the upcoming transition, programs that build on the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative, the Precision Medicine Initiative and Vice President Biden's Cancer Moonshot Initiative will require the ongoing ingenuity of America's private sector leaders and cooperation with the public sector to make impactful change.
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Billionaires including Michael Bloomberg, an ex-mayor of New York, and Sean Parker, co-founder of the file sharing service Napster, have given millions of dollars towards immunotherapy research and work in the area is expected to be a funded under the American government's new $1 billion 'cancer moonshot'.
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He went on to note that the Cancer Moonshot initiative, which President Obama launched during his 2016 State of the Union address to research and develop new cancer cures, was designed to both streamline the research process and to get resources into the right hands to be effective.
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The bill also funds President Obama's Precision Medicine Initiative (to study the effects of genetic differences on health outcomes), the Cancer Moonshot (to improve how cancer medicines are tested and developed), and makes new investments in neuroscience research than can unlock the underlying causes of devastating brain disorders.
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The Cancer MoonShot 2020 IBC Working Group will offer each IBC patient an innovative, GPS Cancer-informed immunotherapeutic approach exploring the precise biology driving their unique cancer, resulting in better overall treatment outcomes so patients with IBC will finally have a strategic roadmap to successfully conquer this cancer.
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But Trump's proposal in March to cut the National Institutes of Health's budget by 20 percent, from $31.8 billion to $26 billion, would mean a massive $1 billion cut to the National Cancer Institute, which helps fund Cancer Moonshot research as well as the 21st Century Cures Act.
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Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat Joe Biden faces an uncertain path The Memo: Trump pushes back amid signs of economic slowdown MORE and Dr. Jill Biden hold a cancer moonshot summit at Howard University.
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When I asked who was being invited to the upcoming National Cancer Moonshot Summit to be held June 85033 at Howard University, James H. Doroshow, NCI's director of cancer treatment and diagnosis, said he did not know, but assumed it was being handled through the vice president's office.
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Referring to the initial steps of the cancer moonshot, Joe Biden explained, "No one anticipated that we would have astrophysicists working with oncologists working with biotechnicians working with immunologists and virologists etc," Collaboration is essential because a true personalized approach to prevent, diagnose, and treat cancer goes beyond genomics.
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"We will get — I predict to you — significant increases in funding from this year, from this Congress, and we'll get a commitment to keep that commitment going for 85033 years," Biden said in a personal speech in which he formally released a report from his cancer moonshot task force.
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Don't you dare lecture Biden about cancer, Bernie... #DemDebate Biden's son Beau died of brain cancer in 2015, and Biden has frequently spoken of losing him, the namesake of the Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot, a $1.8 billion investment in cancer research as part of the 85033st Century Cures Act.
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If I build my business such that all of the money, all of the infrastructure, all of the technology, all the people who are in place four years ago, when I thought it would be there, do a moonshot, you don't achieve escape velocity, you crash to earth.
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A decade ago, about a dozen or so engineers gathered at Google's main Mountain View campus on Charleston Road to work on Project Chauffeur, a secret endeavor housed under the tech giant's moonshot factory X. Project Chauffeur — popularly know as the "Google self-driving car project" — kicked off in January 2009.
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"The president has laid out a number of issues he wants to work with Congress on, including approving the Trans-Pacific Partnership, reforming our criminal justice system, authorizing the use of military force against ISIL, tackling heroin abuse, addressing poverty, and supporting a moonshot to cure cancer," the official said.
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The 21st Century Cures Act, just signed into law by President Obama, supports the Vice President's Cancer Moonshot, which identifies the low number — less than five percent — of adult patients considered eligible for cancer clinical research trials as one of the main barriers to progress in the war against cancer.
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This involves supporting former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat Joe Biden faces an uncertain path The Memo: Trump pushes back amid signs of economic slowdown MORE's Cancer Moonshot, which is guided by a Blue Ribbon Panel.
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Although the nation largely applauded President Obama's "cancer moonshot" initiative announced earlier this month in his final State of the Union address, a number of critical questions need to be addressed to place the plan squarely in the sights of medical-science reality rather than just feel-good political rhetoric.
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In AMERICAN MOONSHOT: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race (Harper/HarperCollins, $35), the best new study of the American mission to space, rich in research and revelation, the historian Douglas Brinkley carefully considers this and other attacks launched by civil rights activists, like the National Urban League's Whitney Young.
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"Just as the moonshot that John F. Kennedy proposed in the 1960s catalysed new technology such as the MRI scanner and satellite dishes, we want our Earthshot challenges to create a new wave of ambition and innovation around finding ways to help save the planet," the Earthshot Prize website reads.
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Go deeper: All the Moon landings, from Luna to Apollo to Chang'e Poll: The Moon is a young person's game We don't know how much water is on the Moon Blue Origin details plans to get NASA to the Moon by 2024 What's in a moonshot How NASA's Moon missions got their names
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Today, it is essential to develop an internal infrastructure to foster and implement innovation without sacrificing an established consumer base of relevant size, unless your moonshot idea is so transformative that it instantly replaces your old income stream with a new one — but that is not what we are talking about here.
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Over a thousand students flooded Texas A&M last weekend for a piece of Elon Musk's moonshot On a recent Saturday afternoon, a young aerospace engineer from Cairo University named Samar Abdel Fatta sat at the end of a long hallway of a Texas football stadium trying hard to contain her excitement.
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And the people who know where we screwed up before and who know how we affected the modest gains before are the guys you want to be listening to right now, where we desperately need those views to embed to this moonshot of a leader-to-leader meeting in a long term strategy.
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Waymo also probably has the most experience when it comes to actual, physical road miles driven — the company is always quick to point out that it's been doing this far longer than just about anyone else working in autonomous driving, thanks to its head start as Google's self-driving car moonshot project.
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The wealthy of the tech industry have historically liked to fund international, or even intergalactic, moonshot projects — colonizing outer space, building a clock to last 21,27 years, or convincing kids to drop out of college — rather than the unglitzy, frontline work of soup kitchens, homeless shelters, and food banks in their backyards.
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Photo: WaymoWaymo, the self-driving car group born out of Google's secretive moonshot unit and recently spun out as its own company, has made a bunch of self-driving cars—around 100 of its current Chrysler iteration, with another 500 in the works, not to mention probably lots more than that in the future.
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"I look forward to the day when your grandchildren and my grandchildren and their children show up at the office to get their physical to start school and get a shot for measles and they get a vaccine that affects significant causes of cancer," he said while discussing the Cancer Moonshot coalition in 2016.
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When it seemed clear that Clinton would defeat Trump in the 2016 election, Biden laid the groundwork for an active post-White House life, building foreign and domestic policy hubs at a pair of universities in addition to launching the Biden Cancer Foundation to continue the work of his "moonshot" bid for a cure.
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Republicans who would not applaud the creation of 14 million jobs, an unemployment rate cut in half, 17 million people given health care, a global climate change pact, the strongest military in the world and a rousing call for a "moonshot" to cure cancer are incapable of taking a fair measure of Obama's achievements.
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I know some people feel, 'Wow, Martine, that sounds like a moonshot,' but I believe before the end of the 2020s, we will have completely bioprinted organs — one heart and kidney matching a patient's own DNA, transplanted into the patient — and the patient will be able to leave the hospital with no immunosuppressants at all.
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Of course, automation is considered less of a moonshot than an eventual path to better margins for the CEOs running these companies—with Uber notably relying on AVs as a means to reduce overhead (see: pay for drivers) in the near future, and Amazon feeling optimistic about its investment in self-driving car startup Aurora.
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To illustrate the universality of the fight against cancer, Vice President Biden told a story from his days in the White House when 50 heads of state showed up for a nuclear proliferation summit, but President Obama kicked things off by acknowledging that they all wanted to speak with Biden about his moonshot initiative.
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That budget increase, combined with the 2900st Century Cures Act authorizing $220006 billion to fund the Cancer Moonshot program, and seed investment to establish the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Oncology Center of Excellence (OCE) to modernize the cancer drug approval process, will make an impact on overall cancer mortality and survival outcomes.
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In one of its final and most significant acts, the House on Wednesday is set to pass the 21st Century Cures Act, an ambitious and pricey initiative that would deregulate some forms of drugs and medical devices and would fund President Obama's cancer "moonshot," Alzheimer's research, regenerative medicine and efforts to address opioid addiction.
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They will include both President Obama's "precision medicine" initiative as well as Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat Joe Biden faces an uncertain path The Memo: Trump pushes back amid signs of economic slowdown MORE's "moonshot" bid to end cancer.
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Developed as one of the first products out of Google X (now simply just X), the internal skunkworks lab known as "the moonshot factory," Google Glass was an early attempt at a heads-up display that would go on to fail rather publicly over privacy concerns, design criticism, and an overall messy and chaotic launch.
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It's part of the Cancer Moonshot, an effort pushed by former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenEight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Hill Reporter Rafael Bernal: Biden tries to salvage Latino Support Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report MORE after he lost his son to brain cancer in 85033.
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Soon he would be back on Amtrak, riding to and from a foreign-policy institute bearing his name at the University of Pennsylvania and a domestic-policy center at the University of Delaware, and continuing the "cancer moonshot" — a Biden-led initiative marshaling resources in government and the private sector to accelerate cancer research.
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It's part of the Cancer Moonshot, an effort pushed by former Vice President Joe BidenJoe BidenEight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall Hill Reporter Rafael Bernal: Biden tries to salvage Latino Support Biden, Buttigieg bypassing Democratic delegate meeting: report MORE after he lost his son to brain cancer in 2015.
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I see the vice president's work in getting $2 billion for his cancer moonshot, I see Senator Sanders working to get the veterans bill passed across the aisle, and I see what I have done, which is to negotiate three farm bills and be someone that actually had major provisions put in those bills.
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It produced the first-ever U.S. innovation strategy, launched the Precision Medicine Initiative (providing more than $200 million to accelerate a new era of personalized medicine), embarked on a Cancer Moonshot initiative and launched the BRAIN initiative that resulted in a doubling of research funding for Alzheimer's research at NIH between 2012 and 2017.
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In addition to the standing ovation that greeted the entry of First Lady Michelle Obama, the other bipartisan applause moments came after his comments on cutting red tape and outdated regulations, when he announced Vice President Joe Biden would lead a cancer "moonshot" initiative and when he lauded the U.S. military as the finest fighting force in the world.
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Meticulously compiled from hours of never-before-seen footage and uncatalogued audio, the documentary brings the viewer right back to the heady days of July 1969, when putting a man on the moon still felt like, well, a moonshot, and by doing so brings back some of the awe and wonder that this brilliant accomplishment still deserves.
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The proposals are appropriately ambitious given that cancer claims 600,000 American lives each year, but as the Washington Post makes clear, the recommendations come at an uncertain time:Many of the ideas would require millions—if not hundreds of millions — of dollars in additional funding, but Congress has not yet approved any extra spending for the moonshot effort.
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The big thing: The Bidens agreed that information sharing between institutions is what will push cancer research forward the most over the next few years — with Joe declaring it "the single biggest thing" — and marked it as a centerpiece of their Biden Cancer Initiative, which stems from Biden's "moonshot" to end cancer while still in office.
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Unlike X, Google's far more secretive "moonshot" division, ATAP always used I/O to show off its latest prototypes, whether those were miniaturized radar sensors for gesture detection, jackets with embedded sensors (which Levi's has now turned into a product), Project Ara (the modularized smart phone that was eventually cancelled) or a new system for authenticating users without passwords.
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"This literal 'moonshot' is hard, and while we did expect a winner by now, due to the difficulties of fundraising, technical and regulatory challenges, the grand prize of the $30M Google Lunar X Prize will go unclaimed," Peter H. Diamandis, the foundation's founder and executive chairman, and Marcus Shingles, the chief executive, said in a statement at the time.
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According to those who've seen the film — currently a small number of people who attended its screenings at the Venice and Telluride Film Festivals — American flags are visible in various scenes and on the astronauts' uniforms, but there's no moonshot scene that specifically reenacts the iconic footage of the American flag being planted on the moon.
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The environmental movement, she notes, born during the era of the moonshot, when earthlings first saw the planet as it is — a tiny, vulnerable blue marble dangling in the abyss of space — disastrously ignored the implications of those images by pitting people against nature and failing to seek common ground with urbanists, pacifists and social justice advocates.
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