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Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Tuesday, May 6th. I'm Victoria Craig for the Wall Street Journal.

Three, two, one, ready for incorporation. Elon Musk's rocket building town gets the green light from voters to make a slice of southeastern Texas

its own self-governing municipality. What's it mean for SpaceX? Then a new era in freedom.

That's how our reporter describes the mood at token 2049, a cryptocurrency conference,

nay, party in Dubai, where industry insiders and their biggest fans gathered last week.

We'll take you there.

But first, 212 to 6. In favor.

That was the final tally of a weekend vote on whether to forge ahead in making Starbase its own fully functioning town.

It's a section of land near Brownsville, Texas,

where Elon Musk's rocket company, SpaceX, has launch facilities and production sites. It's where

the company builds the starship rockets for deep space missions, and there's also housing there

for people who work at those facilities. So what exactly does the vote mean for SpaceX,

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