Yuri Milner

The billionaires behind Facebook and Google can do more than hand out glitzy awards for science. They should fund the research the Trump administration has canned

Yuri Milner's DST Global takes stake at $17bn valuation in rare investment from overseas after China's tech crackdown

The flaws of the awards, seen by the public as the only game in town, are hindering the pursuit of innovation, says astronomer royal Martin Rees

We're back in the Bay Area this week and thinking a lot about the future of this place. And so, inevitably, the squad (quad?) got to talking about the future ofstartup work culture. I had no idea my friends (and husband) thought it was so broken. That, plus Nvidia's blowout earnings. Hope you ...

SoftBank-backed shopper rewards startup Fetch Rewards laid off around 100 employees on Monday, making up at least 10% of its workforce, the company confirmed to The Information. Fetch had pitched itself as a way for sellers to battle rising digital marketing costs following Apple's privacy ...

Zerocater — incubated at Y Combinator back in 2011 (back in the days when YC had just 45 companies in a cohort) — was growing at a fast clip and gobbling up new customers for its office meal delivery service before COVID-19 hit. The pandemic led it to shed 98% of its business and set off […]

Businessman Oleg Tinkov, who publicly criticized Russia's invasion in February, said he "can't and won't be associated with a fascist country."

The multimillionaire said on Instagram that he "can't and won't be associated with a fascist country."

This year's Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics honors some of the pioneers of quantum information science

Many researchers in the field of longevity science say there's one project they wish billionaires could find a little pocket change to fund.

He's backing a new biotech company working on "cellular rejuvenation programming."

Startups bet that carefully controlled cell reprogramming may lead to age reversal, but hurdles remain

An international team of researchers looking for signs of intelligent life in space have used artificial intelligence (AI) to reveal eight promising radio signals in data collected at a U.S. observatory.

The venture capitalist has long had to defend himself and DST Global from allegations of early ties to Russia.

His firm, DST Global, has invested in technology companies including Facebook, Twitter and Airbnb

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Dan Werthimer has spent more than four decades trying to eavesdrop on aliens.

Vy Capital Has Committed $700 Million to Musk's Bid for Twitter -

Detected in 1977, the Wow! Signal is the strongest candidate for a genuine alien transmission, but where did it come from? This study may have the answer.

The search for alien technology is about to get much more efficient. I've bet a cup of coffee to any and all that by 2035 we'll have evidence of E.T. To many of my colleagues, that sounds like a losing proposition. For more than a half-century, a small coterie of scientists has been pursuing the […]