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Ken Howery: the tech mogul at the center of Trump’s Greenland ambition

Climate /

Surprise! Donald Trump’s big, audacious ambition to buy Greenland from Denmark has a tech angle. Ken Howery, named by U.S. President-elect Trump’s pick to be the next ambassador to the country (and thus chief broker of any deal), is one more part of the rich seam of tech people running through Trump’s upcoming administration.  Part […]

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‘I went to Greenland to try to buy it’: Meet the founder who wants to re-create Mars on Earth

Startups /

Last summer, a twin-propeller plane touched down on the gray-cratered terrain of Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. A 28-year-old deboarded, ready to march into the Nordic parliament building with a bold proposition: “I went to Greenland to try to buy it,” Praxis founder Dryden Brown wrote in a viral tweet later.  On the phone with

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