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Starlink competitor AST SpaceMobile plans orbital launch for next week
AST SpaceMobile announced that its network of five commercial satellites is scheduled to launch into low-Earth orbit on September 12 from Florida's Cape Canaveral.
AST SpaceMobile is taking another step toward its goal of providing a space-based mobile communications network — one that would turn any standard smartphone into a satellite phone, no additional hardware required. The company's five BlueBird satellites are equipped with communications arrays that aim to provide standard off-the-shelf smartphones with the same voice, data and video speeds as a broadband tower. A man is facing fraud charges after being accused of uploading hundreds of thousands of AI-generated songs to streaming services and using bots to play them billions of times.
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