SpaceX Valued at $21.2 Billion
After raising a funding round of $351 million in late July, Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX became the fourth most valuable privately held, venture-backed tech company in the U.S. SpaceX previously held the sixth spot, but it now joins the top five along with Uber ($69.8 billion), Airbnb ($31 billion), Palantir ($21.3 billion) and WeWork ($20.8 billion).Source: TheVerge.com
Tech Trash
The weight of e-waste generated annually worldwide is a frightening 50 million tons, a figure that includes 350,000 cellphones that are thrown away every day. As technology becomes more and more integrated into our lives, there remains the question of what happens to all those devices when they stop working or become obsolete. In 2012, 71 percent of U.S. e-waste ended up in landfills or incinerators, and in 2014, 41.8 million tons of worldwide e-waste was shipped to developing countries like Ghana, India and Pakistan.Source: Treehugger.com