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Mexican firms win $4bn airport contract

  MEXICO CITY / AP A consortium led by Mexico’s Carso infrastructure and construction company has won a $4 billion contract to build the main terminal building at Mexico City’s new airport. The $9.2-billion project will quadruple the current airport’s capacity to 120 million passengers per year. Mexican builder ICA Constructora de Infraestructura will join nine firms, some Spanish, in ...

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SpaceX Jan 9 launch puts Iridium’s future up in the air

  Bloomberg Iridium Communications Inc. needs SpaceX to get it right this time. Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. is set to launch 10 Iridium communications satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Monday, marking the company’s first return to flight since a Falcon 9 rocket blew up on a Florida launch pad in September. The satellites are ...

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A game to diagnose dementia!

  DPA A mobile game, of all things, is providing dementia researchers with huge amounts of data. Called Sea Hero Quest, it’s helping them understand how our brains navigate space and is being used to create a benchmark for early detection of dementia, one of the first symptoms of which is the loss of navigational skills. Participants in the project ...

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