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Startup Halo will bring driverless car service to Las Vegas later this year on T-Mobile 5G

July 8, 2021
Driverless car startup Halo has announced a new service coming to Las Vegas later this year: a fleet of remotely operated electric vehicles, using T-Mobile’s 5G network. It’s potentially a big step toward fulfilling the promise of 5G remote driver tech, with a significant catch: the cars don’t operate solely on T-Mobile 5G. While it’s the primary network they’ll use (mid- and low-band…
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Asteroid-Hunting Space Telescope Gets Two-Year Mission Extension

July 1, 2021
. Asteroid-Hunting Space Telescope Gets Two-Year Mission Extension NEOWISE has provided an estimate of the size of over 1,850 near-Earth objects, helping us better understand our nearest solar system neighbors. For two more years, NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) will continue its hunt for asteroids and comets…
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Elon Musk counts on 500,000 Starlink users within the next year

June 30, 2021
SpaceX’s satellite internet network, Starlink, should have roughly 500,000 users within the next 12 months, Elon Musk said at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) conference on Tuesday. SpaceX’s current goal, Musk said, is to beam broadband internet to most of the planet by…
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My Favorite Martian Image: Jezero Crater’s ‘Delta Scarp’

June 23, 2021
. My Favorite Martian Image: Jezero Crater’s ‘Delta Scarp’ A Perseverance rover scientist’s favorite shot from the young Mars mission provides a new angle on an old and intriguing surface feature. Ask any space explorer, and they’ll have a favorite image or two from their mission. For Apollo 8’s Bill Anders…
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