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Dec 9, 2020 ETC
SpaceX Starship's highest test flight ends in crash-landing and explosion

Elon Musk emphasizes the dramatic 'successful ascent'

SpaceX launched its shiny, bullet-shaped, straight-out-of-science fiction Starship several miles into the air from a remote corner of Texas on Wednesday, but the 6 1/2-minute test flight ended in an explosive fireball at touchdown. It was the highest and most elaborate flight yet for the rocketship that Elon Musk says could carry people to Mars in as little as six years. This latest prototype — the first one equipped with a nose cone, body flaps and three engines — was shooting for an altitude

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Dec 9, 2020 Official
GM's Cruise to deploy fully driverless cars in San Francisco

No drivers, but for now no official passengers, either

General Motors' self-driving car company is sending vehicles without anybody behind the wheel in San Francisco as it navigates its way toward launching a robotic taxi service that would compete against Uber and Lyft in the hometown of the leading ride-hailing services. The move announced Wednesday by GM-owned Cruise come two months after the company received California's permission to fully driverless cars in the state. Like dozens of other companies testing the robotic technology, Cruise's se

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