“I don’t feel necessarily safe in this space. If I was focused on larger problems, I think I’d be safer,” said Di Iorio.

Billionaire American businessman Jeff Bezos and his three crewmates engaged in a crash course of training on Sunday in preparation for his company Blue Origin's inaugural flight to the edge of space planned for Tuesday. The mission would represent the world's first unpiloted flight to space with an all-civilian crew. Blue Origin, which will have none of its staff astronauts or trained personnel onboard, expressed confidence at a briefing on Sunday.

Think about the future of transportation, and you might envision the old animated show "The Jetsons," with everyone flying around in personal spaceships. Josh Giegel wants to start from scratch. The chief executive and co-founder of Virgin Hyperloop foresees us zipping between cities in minutes, a future not as far off as you may think.

Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings will buy video game company Sumo Group in a deal that values the British firm at 919 million pounds (USD 1.27 billion), the companies said on Monday.