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A NASA website providing status updates on each DSN complex showed no activity at the Madrid site Friday afternoon, while antennas at the California and Australia locations were communicating with several NASA spacecraft, such as Voyager 2 and Juno, exploring interstellar space and Jupiter, respectively. No activity at the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex on Friday afternoon. Credit: NASA No activity at the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex on Friday afternoon. Credit: NASA “The safety and well‑being of our personnel is our highest priority and our thoughts are with the families and neighbors who are also experiencing the impact of…

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The SpaceX Starship and Super Heavy v3 Booster lift off on its 13th test flight from the SpaceX launch complex in Starbase, Texas, U.S., July 24, 2026. Steve Nesius | ReutersSpaceX launched its massive Starship rocket Friday evening from its company town and launch facility in Starbase, Texas, in a 13th test flight and the first since the company’s record IPO last month. The rocket’s Super Heavy booster detached from the Starship spacecraft about two minutes into the flight, and made a controlled splashdown in the Gulf. The upper stage of the rocket made a “soft splashdown” in the Indian…

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Today, Anthropic rolled out Opus 5, the newest update for the model that has recently become a popular choice for coding and other software development tasks, among other things. While this is a noteworthy bump for Opus, it doesn’t seem to be an Opus 4.5-level breakthrough in agentic coding performance. A chart (made by Anthropic) with various benchmarks like Frontier-Bench and DeepSWE shows Opus 5 performing at about the same level or slightly ahead of the much-ballyhooed capabilities of Anthropic’s Fable model for coding tasks. It ostensibly beats Opus 4.8 and OpenAI’s competing GPT-5.6-Sol in just about every kind of…

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, July 24 (Reuters) – Major U.S. airlines will need to retrofit planes by the end of 2030 to address potential wireless interference after a new auction of wireless spectrum, but the carriers will be eligible for as much as $2.2 billion in government rebates to cover the costs, the Federal Aviation Administration said on Friday. The FAA is requiring all altimeters to meet next-generation performance requirements to address interference from 5G signals in spectrum that could cause inaccurate readings.   The rebates will be funded by some of the government’s proceeds of the C-Band wireless auction run…

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Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of UBER, speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 22nd, 2026. Oscar Molina | CNBCFor the past three years, Uber and Alphabet-owned Waymo have partnered to bring driverless rides to passengers in two major U.S. markets. That relationship is now undergoing some changes.To this point, Waymo has made its robotaxis available in Atlanta and Austin, Texas, exclusively through the Uber app. But an Uber spokesperson told CNBC by email on Friday that, “We have been notified by Waymo that they intend to launch the Waymo app in Austin and…

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People watch as the Doris Ocean container ship departs from the Port of Los Angeles, in Los Angeles, May 28, 2026.Mario Tama | Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump’s global “liberation day” tariffs were struck down in the courts, shattering the cornerstone of his trade agenda. Some trade experts say his newest duties — which have already caught their first legal challenge — could meet the same fate.The Trump administration on Friday imposed broad tariffs on goods from more than 80 countries, alleging they have failed to effectively prohibit the use of forced labor practices.The latest tariffs — which apply to trade…

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