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An 18 carat-gold toilet made by an Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was put to public use at the Guggenheim museum in New York on the 15th day of September this year.

Sapphire ventures, a Palo Alto, CA. - based firm solely funded by German software giant SAP have secured $1 billion to invest, a $700 million growth fund and a $300 million early-stage tech fund. The independent firm since 2011 look out for companies that have at least $5million in revenue and have funded 14 companies including Box, Square and Apigee. It have also funded 33 acquired companies including LinkedIn. Sapphire ventures  writes initial checks to start up of between $10million and $ 25million.

A pilot, Alex Gevash and Tatik labs developed "Sky Guru". An App that can help ease the level of anxiety or psychological discomfort during air travels. Sky Guru uses a phone's built in sensor -  the microphone, gyroscope, compassion, accelerometer and barometer et ce tera, to dictate, analyze and explain happenings during a flight from turbulence to noises during take off and landing. The App works in airplane mode without the Internet or a GPS signal by using algorithms and mathematical modes.

Chan-Zuckerberg initiative founded by Facebook founder and his wife Priscilla Chan are one of the funders who invested $50 million in a math and science learning App by an Indian teacher named Byju Raveendran. The App launched in 2015 help students in grades 4-12 learn science subjects example physics, chemistry and biology. This personalized learning App that already has 250,000 subscribers so far, uses original contents and teaches it through a mix of video lessons, interactive activities and quizzes.

Astronomers discovered an Alien megastructure star KIC 8462852"Tabby's star".It's light curves i. e the amount of light it emits to the Earth,are currently been studied. The mysterious star light dims following a random pattern indicating that the strange blobs around it are planets with predictable rotations that creates specific patterns of dimming and brightening light. According to Tabitha Boyajian at this year's TED conference, the KIC 8462852 would be the alien civilization's host star, much like the sun is for Earth. The civilization would build a megastructure in front of the star to harness it's energy, creating the strange light patterns. She believes that a natural, non-alien explanation will be found but won't dismiss the possibility of aliens.

David Rosenberg founded Aerofarm,  the world's largest 69,000 square - foot indoor farm. The farm combines a technique called "aeroponics" for farming. This farm is aimed at producing 2million pounds and herbs such as lettuce, watercress, kale and basil. The farm has long row of LED tunes which she'd light at the  exact wavelength and intensity each plant needs to grow. In the farm light, air, humidity, nutrients and temperature are tightly controlled. There are no days or nights neither seasons, the end of one harvest begins the planting of another. Each plant is expected to yield between 22 and 30 harvest a year. Aero farm is set to open this September in Newark, New Jersey.

NASA launched the OSIRIS-REX space probe on the 8th day of September into space,for a seven years non-comparable mission to collect samples from 492meters roundish, dark and potentially dangerous asteroid called "Bennu" . The space is expected to spend two years flying through space in order to catch up with the asteroid. OSIRIS-REX took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on top of a United launch Alliance Atlas V411 rocket. In August 2018,the space probe is planned to arrive at Benny. Then in July 2020,the probe will release it's 3.35metres robot arms called "TAGSAM" which will make a 5seconds contact with Benny during which a blast of nitrogen gas from the Tags am will kick up rocks and dust and then pick up at least 60grams or 2kilograms samples of the dust and store it. The space probe is scheduled to head home in March 2021 and arrive back to Earth on 24th September, 2023.