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The Federal Communications Commission has approved SpaceX’s request to deploy an additional 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites, allowing the company to launch 15,000 in all. It has also allowed SpaceX to upgrade its Gen2 satellites with “advanced form factors and cutting-edge technology,” to operate across more frequencies and to add more orbital shells to optimize coverage and performance. This approval will give the company’s fleet a boost and will allow it to offer internet and mobile services to more parts of the globe. The satellites will also enable SpaceX to offer “direct-to-cell connectivity outside the United States and supplemental coverage” within…

SAN FRANCISCO — Daniela Amodei has an energy that’s hard to place — warm, unhurried, immediately present. She swept into a sunlit room on the ground floor of Anthropic’s headquarters in December, sat down, and immediately apologized for her mug.”Is my, like, gigantic novelty mug going to be distracting if I have it?” she said. “I’ll defer to the wise camera people in terms of what’s in the shot.”It was a disarming kind of normal for someone operating at this level.Five years ago, she and her brother, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, led an exodus from OpenAI.They took a core group…

X may soon provide more insight into how its algorithm works. On Saturday, Elon Musk posted on the platform to say that the company “will make the new X algorithm, including all code used to determine what organic and advertising posts are recommended to users, open source in 7 days.”X’s recommendation algorithm has been the subject of investigations by France and the European Commission, the latter of which recently extended through 2026 a retention order that it sent to the company at the beginning of last year. And scrutiny into the platform, along with demands for accountability, have only increased…

Canada gets bad news on Dodgers star Freddie Freeman’s spot in WBC originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.Team Canada has the potential to have some big names on its roster at the World Baseball Classic.AdvertisementFreddie Freeman was supposed to be on the team. But then Canada got some bad news on Saturday.It was announced that Freeman has withdrawn due to personal reasons.Canada also announced that Jordan Romano won’t play.They did announce that Jameson Taillon, Liam Hicks and Tyler Black are on the team.Freeman had played in each of the…

The FCC approved SpaceX’s plan to launch an additional 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites on Friday. That brings the total number of satellites the company will have in orbit to around 15,000 worldwide. As part of the approval, the government is also waiving previous requirements that prevented overlapping coverage and enhanced capacity.SpaceX originally sought approval for 30,000 satellites, but for now, the FCC is only greenlighting 15,000. The company will be on a deadline, too. The government says 50 percent of the Gen2 satellites must be launched and operational by December 1st of 2028, with the rest to follow by December…

Photo: Clémence PolèsAll that began to shift in 1995, when the government monopoly finally ended, and private companies were allowed to export. But it wasn’t until 2006, when Tunisia launched its first national strategy to promote Tunisian olive oil, that things really started to change. Bottled exports were just 500 metric tons that year; today, they’re closer to 40,000. And now, Tunisia is the second-largest producer of olive oil in the world, with output estimated at 500,000 metric tons this year alone (Spain is number one, coming in at more than one million metric tons). On top of that, Tunisia…

I’m happy to report that Burtran’s claim was correct—its operation did not result in a spike of radioactivity. My entire apartment was measuring around 20 clicks per minute, or CPM—for context, 5-50 CPM is normal background. It’s when the number hits over 2,000 that the GQ GMC Geiger Counter Nuclear Radiation Safety Guide says to evacuate and report it to the government.Photograph: Lisa Wood ShapiroFilter FortitudeBurtran also claims that, with its beefed-up HEPA 14 filters, the Nano-Oxy “captures 99.995 percent of ultra-fine particles down to 0.1 micron, surpassing HEPA 13 efficiency by up to 90 percent.”HEPA is an acronym for…

Getty Images For their first home playoff game in eight years, the Chicago Bears have made the bizarre decision to wear a uniform combination that they’ve never won a game in. The Bears surprisingly revealed on Saturday that they’ll be going with an all-Navy look for their Saturday night playoff showdown against the Green Bay Packers. That means they’ll be wearing their Navy jersey with their Navy pants. It’s a combination that the Bears have only worn six times in franchise history and they’ve gone 0-6 in those games, including 0-4 against the Packers. First, let’s take a look at the threads. …

Ministeri adds that Chinese OEMs, ahead in software compared to Western makers in terms of autonomous driving tech, he believes, weren’t on show because right now they cannot launch any vehicles in the US. CES, therefore, is simply no longer “the right for stage for them.”Andy Palmer, former COO of Nissan and former CEO of Aston Martin Lagonda, goes further. “CES used to matter to carmakers because the industry was borrowing technological credibility from Silicon Valley. Today that relationship has flipped. Automotive tech is no longer an exciting novelty, it’s to be expected,” he says. “Electrification, software, and ADAS are…

President Donald Trump’s attack on Venezuela and threats to other countries, as well as concerns about affordability, exposed fractures within the congressional GOP this week at the start of a challenging midterm election year.Trump avoided defeat when most House Republicans declined to override the first of two vetoes of his presidency, which spiked a pair of nonpartisan infrastructure bills that would’ve benefited Colorado and Florida.But it was otherwise a less-than-stellar week for Trump on Capitol Hill, though Republicans are projecting confidence.”This isn’t an unusual situation, particularly coming into midterm elections, where you have senators that are in tough situations,” Sen.…