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Podcast: One Thing Today in Tech
Episode: Elon Musk ‘making the rules’, ESA chief warns; Clearview’s face tech closer to US patent; Zomato invests in Curefit; Spider-Verse sequel’s first trailer out
Description: Elon Muskis being allowed to “make the rules” himself for the world’s space tech industry, Josef Aschbacher, European Space Agency’s new chief, warns in an interview with Financial Times. Musk’s private space company SpaceX and the satellites unit Starlink have won regulatory approval in the US to send up tens of thousands of satellites into low-earth orbits, to provide satellite-based internet connections around the world.
“Space will be much more restrictive [in terms of] frequencies and orbital slots,” Aschbacher said according to the Financial Times report, which is behind a paywall, but was also cited by other...