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Google CEO made nearly $200 million last year

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai received nearly $199.7 million in compensation last year, double the amount he made in 2015, according to a filing Friday from Google’s parent company, Alphabet( GOOGL , Tech30). Pichai’s base pay was a mere $650,000. On top of that, he received a stock award for $198.7 million. The company’s compensation committee attributed the lavish pay to Pichai’s promotion to CEO and “numerous successful product launches.” Pichai, a longtime Google executive, took over as CEO as part of a corporate restructuring in 2015. Larry Page, Google’s cofounder and previous CEO, shifted his focus to growing new businesses under the Alphabet umbrella. Related: Google cofounder’s ‘flying car’ makes its debut Under Pichai, Google has boosted sales from its core advertising and YouTube business, while also investing in machine learning, hardware and cloud computing. In 2016, Google unveiled new smartphones, a virtual reality headset, a router, and a voice contro...

Meet Steven Udotong; The First Black Student To Build A Nuclear Energy Fusor

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In this age where most countries are terrified by the word nuclear power or nuclear energy, 16-year-old Nigerian Steven Udotong who is a high school student from Southern New Jersey in the United States, has taking it upon himself to prove to the whole world that common knowledge based on the subject matter is not very correct. Steven Udotong believes that nuclear energy is an achievable alternate source of power and has started working on developing a nuclear energy fusor all by himself. in his words, the young engineer said.... "I grew curious after we flew by the topic of nuclear energy in my chemistry class last year. I decided to do more research and I soon learned that I could actually make a nuclear fusor. That sparked my interest. I want people to know that there are alternate methods for obtaining power and energy." "I want to examine more clean energy products and stop fearing the word “nuclear". Nuclear energy is a lot safer than peo...