Francesco Durante, Sisal’s chief executive Paddy Power owner Flutter Entertainment has announced a deal to buy Italy’s Sisal from CVC Capital Partners Fund for €1.913 billion as it looks to expand its footprint in Europe. About 90% of Sisal’s earnings this year will be generated in Italy with the rest coming from regulated lottery operations in Turkey and Morocco. The ...

As humankind progresses, we will build more advanced robots capable of doing everything that man can do at a faster pace and in a more efficient way. To build robotic capability equivalent to human ability, we would also need robots to grasp a handful of objects from a pile. Tianze Chen, Adheesh Shenoy, Anzhelika Kolinko, Syed Shah, and Yu Sun ...

A Japanese H-2A rocket takes off from Tanegashima Space Center with the Inmarsat 6 F1 satellite. Credit: MHI The first in a new line of powerful dual-band satellites for Inmarsat’s communications network linking ships, airplanes, and other mobile customers successfully launched Wednesday aboard a Japanese H-2A rocket. The satellite, named Inmarsat 6 F1 or I6 F1, rode the most powerful ...