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A USC team won the collegiate space race by sending a rocket above the Kármán line, the imaginary boundary that marks the end of Earth’s atmosphere.

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Microsoft rescued GitHub—and it's back the tools developers always wanted, along with a healthier open source community.

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We have refreshed the Request for Startups, which are concepts we believe are important in the coming decades, to reflect this newest addition: Government 2.0. If you are creating a startup with the goal of making America a better place, we want to talk to…

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