Space company Virgin Galactic’s founder Richard Branson is set to become the first billionaire to escape the earth and reach space. He’s set for a test flight on July 11 — nine days before retiring Amazon chief Jeff Bezos does the same. Branson will take flight in VSS Unity along with a crew of six, consisting of pilots and space mission specialists. This is the company’s fourth test flight, but the first one with a full crew on board....

Richard Dawkins, a British evolutionary biologist and bestselling author of books likeThe Selfish GeneandThe God Delusion, recently launched his latest bookThe Magic of Realityin the form ofan interactive app for the iPad. Expertly illustrated byDave McKean, the book presents the reader with 12 questions and their answers. It first goes through the answers provided for those questions in cultural and religious myths and traditions and then lays out the modern scientific explanations that we know now....

This article was originally published byChristopher CareyonCities Today, the leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders. For the latest updates, follow Cities Today onTwitter,Facebook,LinkedIn,Instagram, andYouTube, or sign up for Cities Today News. Ride-share spending by consumers globally will exceed US$937 billion by 2026 — comparable to 50 times the combined annual revenue of Transport for London, New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and Beijing Metro in 2021 — according to a new study by Juniper Research....

TLDR:The 2022 Ultimate Cybersecurity Analyst Preparation Bundle features over 50 hours of training to learn all the tricks of digital security while getting certified as an expert in the field. Here are a pair of statistics that can tell you almost everything you need to know about the state of cybersecurity in our modern business world. According to a survey by Deloitte of over 500 corporate executives, an overwhelming 98 percent of them said they’dcome face-to-face with at least one cybersecurity incidentover the past year....

If you are reading this story, I assume that such enterprise matters interest you, so I will not attempt to toss a veneer of excitement across this post; if you don’t care, I can’t save it anyways, and if you do care, then no humor is needed. Today Microsoft made available MDOP 2011 R2. The company had previously promised to release the software in August of this year, and was apparently so intent on making good on that promise that it released the code on the very first day of the month....