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SpaceX's Starship V3 deploys most advanced Starlink satellites then pulls off best re-entry yet with splashdown so soft it floated in the Indian Ocean | Fortune

SpaceX’s mammothStarship rocketblasted off Friday on another test flight stretching halfway around the world, this time…

Inside On's tech lab, where robots build running shoes in 3 minutes | Fortune

At first glance, the machine looks almost underwhelming. Inside a brightly lit laboratory at On’s Zurich…

Can Apple's incoming CEO bring back the product design mojo of the Steve Jobs era? | Fortune

Matthew Rogers remembers Apple’s scrappy days when, as an engineer fresh out of college, he could…

The Messi Test and how the Spaniards messed with it: what the World Cup final taught me about the jobs AI can't touch | Fortune

On Sunday, July 19, a technologically saturated sporting spectacle came down to an old-fashioned denouement: 37…

Trump administration admits it canceled $7.6 billion in clean energy projects 'based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient’s state' | Fortune

The Trump administration has acknowledged incourt documentsthat itcanceled $7.6 billion in grantsfor hundreds of clean energy…

NYC stabbing suspect charged with hate crimes over 2 attacks | Fortune

A suspect in two separate stabbings on New York City streets was arrested Friday on attempted…

Meet the Americans learning to go without after the biggest grocery inflation in 50 years | Fortune

What’s for dinner? Lately, at Apral Jack’s house, it’s whatever is on sale. Jack, 50, scouts…

The Trump administration is revamping the era of the ‘gentleman scientist.’ It’ll cost $200 billion | Fortune

The “Golden Age of Science” had no scientists. For nearly three centuries, discoverers like Darwin and…

Trump dismisses affordability as a ‘word made up by the Democrats’ while predicting oil will come ‘tumbling down.’ (It’s at $100 per barrel) | Fortune

President Trump told a cheering crowd at Wheeler High School in Marietta, Ga., on July 22…

The $39 trillion U.S. national debt isn’t as high as Japan’s and Singapore’s relative to economy size—and yet it’s still worse somehow | Fortune

Statistics don’t always tell the full story, and the U.S. national debt is evidence as to…