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As flying metal birds performing acrobatics in the sky wowed spectators at Aero India 2017, which opened today at the Yelahanka Air Force Station in Bengaluru, audiences in another part of the city were enthralled as they listened spellbound to Bibop G. Gresta talk about his Hyperloop concept at the Make in India-Karnataka conference.

Gresta, whileexplaining the work his Hyperloop Transportation Technologies Inc., the company inspired by Elon Musk, was doing, created quite a buzz among the audiences when he told them with the Hyperloop technology, people from Bengaluru would be able to get to Mysuru, a distance of 140 km, in 20 minutes flat.

Gresta is the founder and chairman of HTT, a company centred on and taking forward the Hyperloop concept that Musk inspired. He was speaking at a panel discussion on automobile and auto components at the conference.

Hyperloop is a technology where people are transported at 760 miles per hour (1,216 km per hour), or almost the speed of sound, in a pod that travels through a vacuum tube. This technology costs one-fourth that of a high-speed rail link and a fraction of the cost of a magnetic levitation transport system or maglev, which is a showpiece German technology now available in China too.

With every hour of work, the company is closer to building the technology, Gresta announced.

Surprisingly, given the sheer scope of the idea HTT is working on, the company works without a distinct structure. It crowdsources work, and the contributors get to own one stock of the company for every hour of work put in. Said Gresta,

:There are 800 scientists working on the project from across 42 countries, and when each of them puts in 10 hours of work a week, they are given ten stocks in the company that is a stock for per hours work. Its the biggest crowdsourced project in the world."

Gresta said that he was trying to entice governments across the globe to build the Hyperloop, and hinted that in a couple of weeks, there could be an important announcement concerning India.

He has been canvassing with the Karnataka government and will next go to Jharkhand, where the Momentum of Jharkhand, an investors meet, is being held on February 16-17.

Hyperloop is being touted as the next big advancement in transportation, where people can be transported in pods at the speed of sound the speed matches that of a passenger plane, but the pod will move safely inside a vacuum tube built on the ground.

Gresta also said that the Hyperloop technology produces 30 percent more energy than it consumes, which means that it produces a usable surplus that can be transferred to other users.

But why do we need Hyperloop? You guys think there is a traffic jam in Bengaluru? This is nothing compared to Indonesia and China, where there are ninja traffic jams, he said, coining his own word for it. Plus, there is also pollution due to the high number of private vehicles, making it difficult to breathe in large cities such as Beijing.

With every hour we spend in a traffic jam, we live that much less, he said rather dramatically, pushing for his yet-to-be-demonstrated technology.

He informed that Hyperloop was not new. According to him, in the early 1900s, a tunnel had been built under the New York subway, but the engineers were stopped from going ahead with the experiment as, back then, nothing was allowed to move faster than 100 miles an hour, that too only over ground or on rails. Then came the very expensive magnetic levitation technology, whose cost still hasnt come down.

When Musk first wrote about this technology years ago, it captured the spotlight immediately, inspiring him and his co-founder Dirk Alhborn to work on it.

Karnataka's Industries Commissioner Gaurav Gupta said that such ideas were of great interest to Bengaluru, as this is where the brightest minds and industry come together.

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Can Technology Really Solve China's Healthcare Crisis? Forbes Technology isn't the solution to every problem; in fact, in many situations it can actually make things worse. Nowhere is this tension between technology's promise and its unfulfilled potential more obvious than in China's healthcare economy. This is ...

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Various companies may be working on self-driving cars, but NASA is about to launch technology to the International Space Station that could bring the agency closer to enabling rendezvous with a spacecraft without human intervention.

A test module, dubbed Raven, will help NASA autonomously rendezvous with and dock with satellites traveling through space at more than 16,000 mph.

Two spacecraft autonomously rendezvousing is crucial for many future NASA missions and Raven is maturing this never-before-attempted technology, said Ben Reed, a deputy division director with NASA, in a statement.

The module, which is about the size of a microwave oven, will be attached to the outside of the space station where it will use sensors and algorithms to test technologies needed to handle a space rendezvous without the help of humans. The module is expected to work for about two years,

NASA needs to have refueling and maintenance spaceships able to rendezvous and dock with satellites in order to service them.Thats a problem since 99% of all satellites working in space were not designed with this capability, according to NASA.

Because of time delays, its difficult to send rendezvous commands from Earth to satellites when they are running out of fuel.

The Raven test module is the first step in NASA's effort to develop ways for spacecraft to rendezvous in space without human involvement.

It would be easier and more efficient to send robotic-servicing satellites to refuel other satellites, which can weigh several tons, and perform any needed repairs.

It also means satellites would be able to work far longer rather than becoming space junk, while companies and the government carry the expense of sending up new satellites.

However, NASA notes that this is a tricky job.

Since the satellites largely are not built for rendezvous, robotic-servicing satellites would need to use machine learning and sensors to find, approach, match speed with and grab onto targets.

The Raven module is set to be launched on the 10th SpaceX commercial resupply mission, which is scheduled for Saturday.

The equipment will be aboard SpaceXs Dragon spacecraft, which will ride a Falcon 9 rocket as it lifts off from NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Raven is scheduled to be unpacked from the Dragon spacecraft by the space stations Dextre robotic arm five days after it reaches the orbiter.

Dextre, a two-armed, Canadian-built robot that works on the outside of the station, will attach the module to a payload platform on the outside of the orbiter.

From its perch outside the space station, Raven will capture and analyze data about approaching and departing spacecraft. It will use sensors and machine-vision algorithms, which would enable a machine to "see," to gauge the distance and speed of the spacecraft it's tracking.

Its processor also will send commands to the Ravens navigation system so it remains trained on the object it is tracking.

Engineers on the ground will keep track of Ravens progress and adjust the device to increase its efficiency and accuracy.

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Counting people or tallyingtrees, when it comes to federal surveys, the biggest hurdles are managementand technology.

Speaking at the Feb. 13 Esri FedGIS Conference in Washington, D.C., officials with the Census Bureau and Forest Service said when it comes to fulfilling their missions, its about more than just getting good data.

Greg Reams, national program manager for the Forest Services Forest Inventory and Analysis, said what his office has learned is to pay regular visits to its CIO and contracting officers if it needs to get something done.

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Measuring soil and vegetation, counting privately owned forests, and watching for insects and disease, all fall under the Forest Services purview.

All the Cs and all the Os, the CIOs, the CFOs, all those kind of things, thats actually the hardest thing to do, Reams said, when asked about the biggest challenges for his line of work. It has to do with the administrative processes within agencies. So to get the permissions, its always a good idea to have a good idea of what youre trying to do the next two years, and work on those permissions with all the people that need to sign off on it.

For the Census Department, technology and congressional support are the challenges its facing today.

You only get one shot at a census, saidTom Fitzwater, who works in the Census Bureaus population division as a geographer, with a focus on international populations.

Theres a high risk of failure if youre adopting new technology, and especially going back to the lower-middle income national statistical office, this is going to be for the 2020 round of censuses the first time that many of these statistical offices have tried to conduct a completely digital census, or a census that has a very light paper trail. There are all of these risks that are associated with new technologies that introduce a lot of challenges for statistical offices.

At nearly $13 billion, the2010 Censuswas the most expensive countin U.S. history, and it cost the bureau $100 per household. The bureau requested $1.6 billion for fiscal 2017, and $778.3 million for the 2020 census.

To help cut costs on the upcoming census, the bureau is turning to the internet, rather than paper.

Unlike the 2010 census, which sent out enumerators the people whowill be out in the field actually conducting the survey with paper maps, the coming 2020 census, will use smartphones and tablets, saidDierdre Bishop, chief of the bureaus geography division.

Address listers and enumerators will be able to see case assignments on the screens, and have access not only to bureau maps, but imagery to help them get to where theyre going.

Bishop said Census expects about 143 million housing units in the U.S. by the time of the 2020 count.

Bishop said in 2010, the bureau hired more than 150,000 address listers to go around every block, validating the bureaus list of households.

It was one of the most laborious and expensive operations of the 2010 census, Bishop said.

Our goal is to count everyone once, only once, and in the right place, Bishop said. And in order to do that, we have to make sure that we have a very strong geographic foundation, we have to have a good address list.

The way the Census Bureau is balancing a good address list and its budget is by working with local and state agencies to get their address information, along with the Postal Service, and third parties for commercial data, Bishop said.

Census is also doing in-office canvassing using interactive review and a Block Assessment, Research and Classification Application, which was developed in-house.

This will allow us to focus field work, our most expensiveefforts, in only the areas where its absolutely necessary, where we cant find information through technology, Bishop said.

The application works by comparing satellite imagery from 2009, with very recent, current imagery, Bishop said. An analyst looks at a particular block and can label it stable, or unchanged. If they do see a change, they can drop a pin, which triggers a review by a more experienced analyst using additional resources to look at what has changed between the two images.

There is still 100 percent review of every census block, Bishop said. The interactive review phase for this address canvassing started in October 2015, Bishop said, with a goal ofcompleting half of all blocks in the nation by the end of fiscal 2016. Not only did Census meet that goal, it has already completed an additional 30 percent of block reviews for 2017.

Of the blocks reviewed, about 72 percent have no change from 2009, while about 17 percent are in review. Around 11 percent of blocks are on hold for better imagery, Bishop said. And the online reviews online take 62 seconds, Bishop said, compared to the 2.5 hours for in-person reviews of the previous census.

Bishop also pointed out that a decennial census is the largest peacetime federal mobilization.

As we look to the 2020 Census, because this is such a monumental task, I think right now one of our biggest challenges is getting congressional support and ensuring we have good funding to support the census, Bishop said. Then getting the right people in the door, to make sure that we get the job done on schedule.

Getting that support might notbe easy. In late 2016, members of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform expressed their concern for the bureau meeting its deadlines, protecting citizens personally identifiable information, and delivering on new technology.

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India is one of the best and worst places to launch a tech startup these days, a contradiction epitomized in a recent survey (pdf) of 170 entrepreneurs across 15 industries. Sixty-five percent of those surveyed said India is in the midst of a tech bubble, even as 63% said they were struggling to find funding.

For the past few years, India has been a hotbed of startup activity, even if a good portion of those ventures ultimately dont make it. Between June 2014 and July 2016, more than 2,280 Indian startups began operations; nearly 1,000 of them shuttered. While fail is less of a dirty word in tech than elsewhere, Indian entrepreneurs cite a range of factors in their struggle to find footing, including a lack of funding, lack of innovation, and an oversaturated marketplace. Most of the entrepreneurs surveyed by InnoVen Capital, an Asian venture-lending firm, said that finding cash was their biggest barrier to growth.

[Sixty-three percent] of respondents who attempted to fundraise in 2016 did not have a favorable experience, reads the companys February 2017 Startup Outlook report. The average startup had to pitch to more than six investors before securing funding.

(Only 18% of the companies whose leaders participated in the survey were backed by venture capital; a quarter were funded by angel investors and nearly half were self-funded.)

Among other obstacles, e-commerce and healthcare startups rated revenue growth as a top business challenge, while enterprise startups cited customer acquisition and customer churn. Artificial-intelligence startups cited trouble discovering and hiring talent. Many of those surveyed also called for India itself to foster a more entrepreneurial environment by, for example, increasing investment in digital infrastructure, allowing for more foreign investments, creating stronger intellectual property laws and making updates to public education.

The Indian government has made some strides on this front, including Startup India a plan to reduce taxes and bureaucracy, create incubators and sources of funding, and introduce patent reformsand Digital India, a campaign to improve online infrastructure and internet connectivity.

In the InnoVen Capital survey, fintech CEOs noted their appreciation for policies promoting Digital Payment [and] the Unified Payments Interface, and entrepreneurs in the e-commerce, consumer, and logistics sectors rated the Goods and Services Taxit proposes to offers relief from Indias cascading tax system by subbing in a simplified tax structureas the most helpful government initiative of 2016. One in five entrepreneurs called for more tax-policy improvements this year.

Crowding is a different beast. Although entrepreneurs listed having a robust business model as the most important facet of improving investor sentiment this year, more than 20% of them also said that more exits would help. Seventy percent said they were open to an exit, and nearly two-thirds rated an initial public offering as the most preferred route.

While Indias entrepreneurs are finding inspiration from withindemonetization has done wonders for digital payments startup Paytmforeign tech majors like Google, Airbnb, Amazon, and Uber are still among [at least some] Indian entrepreneurs favorites. Tesla/SpaceX CEO Elon Musk also has lots of fans in the country.

Challenges or no, 94% of survey respondents said they would be looking to fundraise in 2017some $800 million between them. But theyll have to hurry: Nearly 20% believe that tech bubble is about to burst.

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Nearly every person, even children have smart phones. Most of the time, experts talk about kids spending too much time on their phones, but what about parents?

As parents we've all been there and felt guilty after spending too much time on our phones while the kids are around.

But there are things you can do to break free from the technology and create a happier family life.

Emily Yonke and her husband are both teachers. They are parents to two little boys. They understand how difficult it can be juggling kids, work and technology. Emily said she spends about an hour a day on the phone, talking with family or on social media.

After a while with Harrison, I started to realize I was on it too much, said Emily.

She noticed times where she wasn't in the moment. Its a guilt many parents feel, her husband did as well.

Why aren't we talking and winding down together? Why is it winding down on your phone? said Emily.

And the Yonkes aren't alone.

You say okay, is it good that for an hour every night, I'm like this on my phone when I have my children around me doing homework, asking me questions, and I'm totally tuning them out, said Dr. Lynn Wagner, an Integrated Lifestyle Physician with BayCare Clinic.

Dr. Wagner says she sees it every day, even in her own life.

I'll put my phone in the trunk, or make a pact when I get home, Ill silence my phone and not look at it, said Dr. Wagner.

She uses Facebook for her business and is constantly checking email from patients.

Dr. Wagner said technology can actually become an addiction.

The first thing they do when they wake up is go through their Facebook or social media, and check their e-mails, said Dr. Wagner.

Using your phone, being on social media -- the comments, the likes -- it gives you a high.

If you're happier on technology on Facebook, or social media platforms than you are in your own life, it should just be an awakening for you that something needs to change in your life, said Dr. Wagner.

So as parents -- even grandparents -- adults in general, what do we do?

It's not going away so I think it's learning how to work with it and make it work for you, said Dr. Wagner.

She explains the first step is do not feel guilty, it's okay. Then, take a look at your habits and then structure your time. Start small. Set aside maybe 30 minutes in the morning 30 at night and dedicate that time to your phone. Otherwise, its out of sight, out of mind.

That's exactly what they Younkes did.

We put them back in the office area over there just to not have it as a distraction with the children around, said Emily.

They came up with the rule about a month ago. Every night after work, their phones go in a box in the office.

At first, Emily says it was difficult.

We both break the habit once in a while, she said.

But now, it's normal and makes their family happier.

Being able to watch them and realize, they're more entertaining than technology is, said Emily.

Exactly what Dr. Wagner talks about -- life is more than technology.

Human connection is so critical for health, for well being, for having a long happy life, said Dr. Wagner.

Jena Richter Landers, a Social Media Specialist at UW-Green Bay also gave us some tips to cut out some technology. She suggests doing things the old school way. Instead of using your phone as an alarm, start using an alarm clock. That'll stop you from looking at your phone first thing in the morning and getting sucked in right off the bat.

She also said use a grocery list, instead of the notepad in your phone. That will stop you from picking up the device so frequently.

You can also delete apps so you physically have to open them in a browser and youll be aware of the choices youre making.

Landers also said you can take disconnected breaks while on vacation.

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Apples senior vice president of software and services, Eddy Cue, says that since most people are receiving their news online through devices, technology companies have a special responsibility to the people who depend on them to receive that news.

We wanted Apple News to be available to everyone, but we wanted to vet and be sure that the Apple News providers are legitimate, said Cue at the Code Media conference at the Ritz-Carlton in Dana Point, Calif., this evening. Were very concerned about all the clickbait and how that's driving a lot of the news coverage.

All of us in technology and services own a responsibility for it. We dont have all the answers by any means. We need to work on it, Cue said.

On Friday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said in an interview that fake news is killing peoples minds and called for a a massive campaign with technology companies to get to work to fix it.

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In the wake of North Korea's most recent ballistic missile test the Pentagon is strongly condemning the North Korean program as "a clear grave threat to our national security."

North Korea has continued to test a variety of mid-range and long range ballistic missiles in defiance of United Nations Security Council resolutions barring the development of such technologies.

North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency described the missile launched Sunday as a Pukguksong-2 missile capable of carrying a nuclear weapon. While that claim cannot be proven, the test indicated that North Korea is making progress in using solid booster rockets to launch its newer missiles.

Though the missile was never determined to be a threat to the United States, Davis said the U.S. military has the means of defending itself and its allies from a North Korean missile threat.

Here is a look at North Korea's ballistic missile technologies and the progress they've made in recent years.

What was launched this weekend?

A U.S. official told ABC News that, this weekend, North Korea launched a solid rocket fueled KN-11 missile that is described as an intermediate range missile than can travel 1,400 nautical miles.

It was the first land-based test of a missile designed to be launched from a submarine. It was successfully tested in an underwater launch last year on August 23, though not from a submarine.

According to the official, the KN-11 missile was airborne for 14 minutes on a vertical trajectory and a distance of 310 miles into the Sea of Japan.

The two successful launches indicate North Korea is making progress in developing solid rocket fuel technology, a more stable propellant than the liquid rocket fuel North Korea has used in its other medium and long-range missiles.

The use of solid rocket fuels means North Korea will need less time to prepare making it difficult for American satellites to track potential launches.

Improving Missile Technology

Early this year North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced that his country was close to testing an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). No such test has occurred yet, but the announcement marks North Korea's growing confidence in its missile programs. North Korea has stated publicly that its goal is to develop a miniaturized nuclear warhead small enough to be placed atop a ballistic missile capable of striking South Korea, Japan or the United States.

North Korea conducted 21 missile tests in 2016, the most significant being launch tests of the mobile launched Musudan mid-range missile and the KN-11 submarine launched missile.

The liquid fueled Mususdan was tested for the first time in 2016, but only one of eight launches was a success with the rest ending as spectacular failures.

The solid rocket fueled KN-11 is a missile designed to be launched from a submarine, but this weekend's test now shows the missile can also be launched from land. The success of the rocket fueled system advances North Korea's capabilities and could make future launches harder to detect.

The KN-08 and KN-14 missiles are larger mobile launched ICBM's potentially capable of reaching the continental United States, but North Korea has yet to test the missiles that have only been seen on parade in Pyongyang.

But North Korea has already demonstrated success in developing long-range rocket technology. Last February, the launch of an Unha 3 successful placed a satellite in orbit. American officials have said the satellite tests are used by North Korea to develop its long range ballistic capabilities.

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Johnston educators among presenters at technology conference News & Observer Two members of the Johnston County school system's Digital Learning Team presented at the 37th annual Future of Educational Technology Conference, or FETC, in Orlando, Fla. They were Amy Stanley, director of digital learning and innovation, and Pam ...

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Magic Leap C.E.O. Rony Abovitz.

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Despite raising more than $1 billion since its 2011 founding, augmented reality start-up Magic Leap still doesnt have much to show for itself. What the company promises, a concept called cinematic reality, described by C.E.O. Rony Abovitz as a combination of virtual reality and an acid trip, does sound magical. But unlike Microsofts virtual-reality headset, the Hololens, which is already available to developers for $3,000, Magic Leaps product is reportedly still years away from market. On Friday, Business Insider published a leaked photo of what appears to be a prototype of Magic Leaps technology, featuring a bulky backpack computer connected to a headset. The photo seemed to confirm an earlier report that Magic Leap is having a hard time shrinking down its technology to fit into a consumer-size device.

Magic Leap C.E.O. Rony Abovitz pushed back on the report over the weekend, explaining on his companys Web site that its technology is still in an early testing phase and promising fans that its eventual product will enable your digital and physical worlds to come together in a very personal, social, and magical way. The leaked photo, he claimed, did not show its prototype but rather a test rig used to collect spacial data for its machine learning.

Abovitzs explanation contradicts the report by Business Insider, whose source told the publication that the bulky, poorly constructed device shown in the leaked image was, in fact, the real wearable prototype, a more finished version of which would be shown to the Magic Leap board this week.

Magic Leap has long faced questions about its much-hyped technology and allegations that it has misled supporters and investors about its progress. Last year, former Magic Leap employees told The Information that Magic Leap had over-promised and would likely under-deliver. According to The Information, the technology behind Magic Leaps initial prototypenicknamed The Beast and described as a rectangular, shoulder-width box that people could look into and see computer-generated images projected over the real worldlikely wouldnt be used in whatever product the company releases commercially.

Not everyone is concerned that Magic Leap hasnt yet finalized its prototype, despite working on its device for about six years. Andreessen Horowitzs Benedict Evans, who says he has seen Magic Leaps technology, joined Abovitz on Twitter over the weekend to defend the start-up. There are a bunch of great people at great companies working on A.R., he tweeted. No one is shipping a final product yet. Evans, whose firm invested in Magic Leap during its Series B fund raise, also dismissed critics of Magic Leaps technology, and added that gloating about any negative news (real or fake) about a start-up is just as bad as uncritical praise. Maybe worse.

Andreessen Horowitz partner Kyle Russell also tweeted a picture of the iPhones prototype, to argue that even Apples flagship device appeared unsightly in the initial phases of its development process.

Unlike the iPhone, however, Magic Leap has been hyped for years by the tech press and by Magic Leaps own marketing team, without plans to launch any time soon. In 2015, the company published a marketing video on YouTube called Just Another Day in the Office, offering a mind-blowing, first-person demo to show off its tech. Magic Leap, which is valued at $4.5 billion, later conceded that its too-good-to-be-true video was just a collection of special effects, created by Weta Workshop, a team based in New Zealand. The video, former employees told The Information last year, was aspirational, and intended to mislead the public about the companys progress.

Sundar Pichai, Googles C.E.O., was born in Chennai, India, immigrating to the U.S. to attend Stanford in 1993.

Alphabet president and Google co-founder Sergey Brin was born in Moscow and lived in the Soviet Union until he was six, immigrating with his family to the United States in 1979.

Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, was born and raised in South Africa. He obtained Canadian citizenship in 1989 and briefly attended college at Queen's University in Ontario. He transferred to University of Pennsylvania, in part because such a move would allow him to get an H-1B visa and stay in the U.S. after college.

Safra Catz, who served as co-C.E.O. of Oracle, was born in Israel. She resigned from her executive role in December after joining Donald Trumps presidential transition team.

Trump supporter Peter Thiel, who has expressed support for the presidents executive action restricting immigration from several predominantly Muslim countries, is an immigrant himself. Before he co-founded PayPal and made one of the earliest large investments in Facebook, Thiel moved with his family from Germany, where he was born. In 2011, he also became a citizen of New Zealand, adding a third passport to his growing collection.

Born in Hyderabad, India, Microsoft C.E.O. Satya Nadella came to the U.S. to study computer science, joining Microsoft in 1992.

Garrett Camp helped co-found Uber. He was born in Alberta, Canada, and now resides in the Bay Area.

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Sundar Pichai, Googles C.E.O., was born in Chennai, India, immigrating to the U.S. to attend Stanford in 1993.

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Alphabet president and Google co-founder Sergey Brin was born in Moscow and lived in the Soviet Union until he was six, immigrating with his family to the United States in 1979.

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Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, was born and raised in South Africa. He obtained Canadian citizenship in 1989 and briefly attended college at Queen's University in Ontario. He transferred to University of Pennsylvania, in part because such a move would allow him to get an H-1B visa and stay in the U.S. after college.

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Safra Catz, who served as co-C.E.O. of Oracle, was born in Israel. She resigned from her executive role in December after joining Donald Trumps presidential transition team.

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The founder of eBay, Pierre Omidyar, was born in France to Iranian parents. He immigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s.

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Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang moved from Taiwan to San Jose, California, in 1978, at the age of 10.

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Brothers John Collison and Patrick Collison, twenty-something college dropouts who emigrated from Ireland, co-founded Stripe, a $9.2 billion payments start-up.

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Adam Neumann, raised on an Israeli kibbutz, moved to the U.S. in 2001, after briefly serving in the Israeli army as a navy doctor. Now hes the chief executive of the $16.9 billion New York-based WeWork, which sublets space to individuals and companies.

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The co-founder and C.E.O. of health insurance start-up Oscar, Mario Schlosser, came to the United States from Germany as an international student, receiving his M.B.A. from Harvard.

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Trump supporter Peter Thiel, who has expressed support for the presidents executive action restricting immigration from several predominantly Muslim countries, is an immigrant himself. Before he co-founded PayPal and made one of the earliest large investments in Facebook, Thiel moved with his family from Germany, where he was born. In 2011, he also became a citizen of New Zealand, adding a third passport to his growing collection.

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Born in Hyderabad, India, Microsoft C.E.O. Satya Nadella came to the U.S. to study computer science, joining Microsoft in 1992.

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Garrett Camp helped co-found Uber. He was born in Alberta, Canada, and now resides in the Bay Area.

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