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Carl Icahn, Jefferies nab $5.2B to finance Dell deal — report

Dell headquarters in Round Rock, Texas. (Credit: Dell) Activist investor Carl Icahn, along with his partner Jefferies & Co., have secured billions in financing for their Dell bid, a new report claims. The investors have secured $5.2 billion in loans from several banks and institutional investors, Reuters is reporting, citing people who claim to have knowledge of the deals

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Pocket Spacecraft hopes to launch personalized moon missions

The prototype Pocket Spacecraft is thin and light. (Credit: Pocket Spacecraft) Chances are, most of us will never have the opportunity to walk on the moon, but we might have the opportunity to send a tiny spacecraft in our stead. A Kickstarter project from Pocket Spacecraft wants to launch a moon mission full of personalized space gadgets that would report back to their Earth-bound owners.

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Is a smartwatch in your future?

A mock-up showing what an Apple iWatch might look like. (Credit: Sarah Tew and Christopher MacManus/CNET) Maybe it’s the arrival of the dog days of summer and a respite from hard news, but the rumor of a possible wearable computer from Apple is again making the rounds

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