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Rivian Automotive, the electric-vehicle startup backed by Amazon inc. and Ford Motor Co., is looking to go public as soon as September at a valuation of about $50 billion and perhaps more, according to people familiar with the matter.

The company’s timeline for an initial public offering and its potential value might change, and a listing could happen later in the year or even slip to 2022, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing private information. Rivian has been speaking to bankers about its plans, one of the people said.

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A website launch is an exciting and anxious event. It’s the culmination of weeks, months or years worth of hard work. And a website launch checklist helps you keep that event on the rails.

No matter how experienced we are at doing something, there’s always a chance that we’ll make a mistake. So, in this article, we’ve pulled together a checklist of tasks that web designers and developers should consider when launching a new site.

By following this checklist — or, even better, by using these recommendations to create your own checklist — you’ll have a documented process to follow for every site that you launch.

If you’re a web designer or developer, a smooth website launch reassures your client. It shows that you know your stuff. But when a launch doesn’t go smoothly? Watch out. You’d be surprised at how quickly you can burn through goodwill.

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Imagine that you can control earthquakes or tsunamis to generate the energy we need. Or even terraform the planets of the solar system. These are just a few things that can happen if human civilization sets out to move into the future.

So, can we humans get to that same point? Or the possible advances that can happen.

And what makes us think whether or not we can progress to a specific point.

All global civilizations can be classified into what is called Kardashev.

It is responsible for measuring the ability of a particular civilization to use the energy that is available for a specific scale ranging from 1 to 3.

At present, humanity is not reaching Type 1 civilization. This is because we do not use all the forms of energy that Earth can provide us. We only use wood, coal and oil. But there are more possibilities. So what aspects of humanity would change if they evolved into other types of civilizations?

So being a Type 1 civilization usually means having control over all the elements that provide energy on earth. This implies that we can say goodbye to fossil fuels because they are limited and unsustainable.

To change this, we can use wind, sunlight, or water to alleviate the energy needs we have. Since energy is accessible, we may not have to pay the electricity bill that you consume. So in a type 1 civilization, we are going to use energy continuously. This is something very essential, it could even resemble oxygen. With this, we can start using natural disasters to use it to our advantage. Tsunamis themselves can produce energy or earthquakes are used to be terraformed in different parts of the world. With humans, complete control over the planet’s energy sources, we can then control the weather.

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Tesla Inc.’s $1.5 billion splash on Bitcoin and its plan to accept the digital currency as payment is shooting crypto prices to record highs Monday. But fans have a question for Elon Musk: What took him so long?

The world’s richest person and Tesla chief has long been a cryptocurrency supporter. Just last Thursday he sent Bitcoin alternative Dogecoin to the stratosphere when he tweeted an illustration of himself thrusting its canine mascot to the sky.

But Tesla's latest announcement represents more than just another endorsement. It’s giving Bitcoin a stamp of legitimacy that its early adopters have been craving. Crypto has for long been derided as a made-up asset with no innate value, and it has perhaps most famously been used to buy pornography and drugs on the darker corners of the internet.

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In 1933, U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passed 15 major pieces of legislation and 76 laws during his first 100 days in office. By today’s standards—given, you know, Congress inability to pass new laws—those numbers sound mind-blowing. But part of the reason FDR was able to be so productive was because the U.S. was in crisis. He was dealing with the Great Depression, and that sense of emergency allowed him to take swift action with the aim of pulling the country out of economic chaos.

President Joe Biden is also dealing with crises at the beginning of his term. “[Biden] has to address difficult questions few presidents have had to deal with, ranging from an unprecedented pandemic and ensuing economic collapse to hostile opposition in the House, and particularly in the Senate, which has no agenda other than stopping his,” said Michael Gerhardt, the Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of North Carolina,

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Maybe you’ve heard: The pandemic is killing cities, fueling a rush to spacious houses in the suburbs. But beyond pricey New York and San Francisco, real estate demand is booming in downtowns across America.

From Pittsburgh to Detroit and Phoenix, condos and townhouses within stumbling distance of bars and restaurants are hot. Like the families now upgrading to bigger suburban homes, young white-collar workers are taking advantage of record-low mortgage rates and flexible remote-work policies to move to desirable cities with relative affordability.

Home prices in urban U.S. markets rose 15% in the three months through late January, slightly ahead of the annual pace in suburbia, according to data from brokerage Redfin, based on geographic designations developed by the Census Bureau. It’s a shift from early in the pandemic, when prices were lagging behind outer areas or even falling, a sign that Covid-19 vaccines are helping to fuel demand as nightlife makes its return.

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The ideas being floated by some Democratic lawmakers have long been on the wish lists of consumer advocates, who argue they would prevent financial firms from preying on retail investors and curb the excessive speculation that’s transformed the stock market into a casino, rather than a place where companies raise money to grow their businesses. But industry executives counter that policy revamps often have unintended consequences and that a transaction tax would ultimately increase trading costs for all shareholders.

The January tumult -- sparked by readers of Reddit’s WallStreetBets chat room and users of Robinhood Markets’ popular trading app -- will be examined by the House Financial Services Committee at a hearing next week and the Senate Banking Committee is planning to follow. While getting a rules overhaul through a bitterly divided Congress won’t be easy, here’s an overview from analysts, consumer advocates and other experts on what might be on the table:

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To judge by the Reddit-fueled rollercoaster ride in shares of GameStop Corp., AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. and silver, you might think investing is supposed to be exciting, the financial world’s equivalent of a stadium packed with screaming Super Bowl fans. And financial planners are killjoys — diversify holdings, don’t chase hot stocks, don’t try to time the market. Where’s the fun in that? The sense of being part of something bigger?

The advice may not seem quite so fuddy-duddy now that GameStop's shares have fallen rudely back towards earth. That said, investors who have entered the stock market for the first time in the past year or so do remain part of something greater: They have written themselves into financial history books, for better or worse. One unfortunate fact that history shows us, however, is that we humans have a long pattern of not really learning from our mistakes.

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Super Bowl LV, coming this Sunday evening in Tampa, Florida, is going to be weird. Partly that’s just because everything has been weird for months, including sports events that are now an uncanny mix of fake crowd noise and cardboard-cutout fans, with players sidelined and schedules rejiggered by Covid infections. It’s particularly hard to imagine how this ultimate spectacle of togetherness — not just in a crowded stadium but in many thousands of crowded living rooms — will translate to this endless and isolated Covid-19 winter.

All of which is making things complicated for the real stars of Super Bowl Sunday: the advertisers.

This is probably the riskiest Super Bowl for advertisers since the 2002 contest, played just months after 9/11. Once again, there’s the matter of getting the tone right in a troubling moment that viewers simultaneously seek to treat with respect and as an escape from our grave reality for a precious few hours. “It’s a tough year to do an ad,” one marketing expert told the Associated Press.

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Rich Paul is the founder of Klutch Sports and he’s also the leader of the UTA’s sports division. He’s one of the most well-known figures in the sports world, and he’s been at the forefront of negotiating hundreds of millions of dollars in active deals. He’s a prolific agent who has an estimated net worth of $100 million. This is a huge fortune, but how did he come to be so incredibly rich? We looked into his career to attempt to learn more about his journey and where he made the bulk of his money and here is what we learned.

Forbes has ranked Rich Paul as number 19 on its list of the top Sports Agents for 2019. This is quite the distinction with the hundreds of agents out there working. When it comes to the world of professional basketball, he’s had a decent share of clients with a total of 23 of them as of the end of 2019. He has negotiated a total of $814 million in contracts through the Klutch Sports Group.