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SpaceX's Starship Rocket is still in development in southeast Texas,

with major progress being made on key elements like the launch tower construction

and installation of the vacuum-rated raptor engines that will power the vehicle once it reaches space.

Elon Musk says that it could be ready to make its first

orbital flight attempt next month provided it gets the regulatory sign-offs it needs.

In other news Facebook and other tech giants love to tell you stories about how their products and services help one small business or another.

It's a way of both humanizing mega corpse and creating a smoke screen to avoid more lucid scrutiny.

Tech Watchdog Main Street against Big Tech is spending money to push back on the matter.

Review writers have another tool to turn their Twitter followers into newsletter

subscribers. Now when you tweet out your newsletter, readers will see a subscribe button

embedded in the tweet. When you share individual issues of your

newsletter, they'll look the same as if you shared an article from any other website.

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