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The CEO of America’s most powerful surveillance company spent $200 million on places nobody can find him

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Palantir CEO Alex Karp has assembled a $200M+ real estate portfolio centred on seclusion, from a 3,700-acre Colorado monastery to a Miami compound. The privacy-obsessed lifestyle contrasts sharply with the surveillance software his company sells to governments.

Alex Karp, the co-founder and chief executive of Palantir Technologies, has quietly assembled a real estate portfolio worth more than $200 million across a reported 20 properties worldwide. The common thread is seclusion: a former monastery in the Colorado mountains, a rural compound in New Hampshire, and a pair of mansions on a gated Miami island.

Karp, whose net worth stood at $14.4 billion as of early July according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, has said he never learned to drive because he was once “too poor” and is now “too rich.” The fortune that funds his acquisitions comes from Palantir, whose revenue hit $1.63 billion in...

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'Play Harder': Garmin has stealthily scheduled its own YouTube live event, presumably to launch the Fenix 9…

* Garmin has scheduled a YouTube live event * Titled 'Play Harder', it's scheduled for 25 August at 12:00pm BST (4am PT / 9pm AEST) * It's likely to be the launch of the Garmin Fenix 9 Garmin has scheduled a live event on YouTube, without much

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China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight

Chang'e 7 didn’t meet unspecified ‘launch requirements’ China’s Manned Space Agency (CMSA) on Sunday cancelled a planned Monday moonshot launch. The mission plan for Chang'e 7 calls for it to send a lander to a region near the Moon’s South Pole, in a

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Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring

Bingeing the boxed set of binary bafflement OPINION DVD is one of those technologies that dominated for barely a generation yet left a permanent cultural mark. It made high-quality video cheap enough for mass distribution, popularized the TV series boxed set, and encouraged its gluttonous consequence: binge viewing. Streaming and

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Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue to Reach $1.6 Trillion in 2026

Global semiconductor revenue is expected to reach $1.6 trillion in 2026, increasing 92% from 2025 revenue of $809 billion, according to Gartner, Inc., a business and technology insights company. In 2027, it is forecast to total $1.9 trillion. “The semiconductor industry is entering a fundamentally new phase of

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'Play Harder': Garmin has stealthily scheduled its own YouTube live event, presumably to launch the Fenix 9…

China calls off ambitious ice-hunting moonshot a day before flight

Software should work, and talking about it needn't be boring

Gartner Forecasts Worldwide Semiconductor Revenue to Reach $1.6 Trillion in 2026