Radio Pangaea: The Start of Something Big

US technology giant IBM said it would hire 25,000 people in the country over the next four years, a day before President-elect Donald Trump meets with tech industry leaders.  SpaceX has officially delayed its first crewed test flight of the Dragon capsule from 2017 to 2018.  The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the National Football League's estimated $1 billion settlement of concussion-related lawsuits with thousands of retired players to take effect.  A Shell-led consortium has won a bid to build a 700 megawatt wind farm off the southern Dutch coastline.  Russia appears to have snubbed a Japanese attempt at puppy-love diplomacy by declining a gift of a dog for President Vladimir Putin at an upcoming summit with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.  The number of people left homeless after an earthquake struck western Indonesia has soared to nearly 84,000. Stargazers discover priceless planet which has clouds of RUBIES and SAPPHIRES.  A biotech startup seeded with $225 million from German drug maker Bayer AG and San Francisco-based venture capital firm Versant Ventures will establish a research site — and possibly its headquarters — in the Boston area.