With an estimated net worth of $17.5 billion, Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen can afford some expensive toys. His 414-foot yacht, "Octopus," has to be one of the best billionaire toys around.

Australian-based Scenic started life as a coach tour operator in its motherland in 1986. Initially, the company offered multi ...

"Octopus" is believed to be the fourth largest yacht in the world only behind the ... club with M/Y Pelorus and M/Y Le Grand Bleu. Paul Allen who is rated the third richest US citizen and seventh ...

It was this advanced technology that a team finally used to locate the wreck, operating from his luxury yacht and exploration vessel, the Octopus, on behalf of Paul Allen. Allen announced the ...

Year after year, Paul Allen's party aboard his massive "Octopus" yacht is one of the hottest after-hour tickets of the Cannes International Film Festival. Models, socialites, and major players in ...

Bezos's Koru is the world's largest sailboat, Zuckerberg's Launchpad is a 387-foot behemoth, and Bill Gates's for-sale, ...

Their high-fidelity computational model is a milestone both in biology, where it can help explain the octopus's impressive capability, and engineering. "The computational model is a useful testbed for ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Add in the octopus’s small size (generally around eight inches), relatively short arms, bell-shaped body, pale coloring, and tendency to hover over the seafloor, and you’ve got a cephalopod ...

Blanket octopus pairs are some of the undersea world’s oddest couples. What’s so startling is the size difference: Males are about the size of a walnut—less than an inch long—but some ...

Bezos's Koru is the world's largest sailboat, Zuckerberg's Pathfinder is a 387-foot behemoth, and Bill Gates's for-sale, ...

Paul Allen and Larry Ellison were the ... The Microsoft and Oracle Corporation cofounders’ race to build boats—Allen’s Lürssen-built Octopus in 2003 and Ellison’s Bannenberg-designed ...