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Today's top stories
[NASA gives its nod to NanoRacks for space station’s first commercial portal](
By Alan Boyle
NASA has accepted a plan from NanoRacks to provide the International Space Station with an air lock that would serve as its first commercial portal.
[‘AWS on premises’ provider Stratoscale acquires database-as-a-service company Tesora](
By Jillian Stampher
Cloud infrastructure startup Stratoscale is expanding its database services platform.
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[Shelf Engine raises $800K to help food retailers use artificial intelligence for optimized ordering](
By Taylor Soper
As his fresh salad and sandwich business started taking off a few years ago, Stefan Kalb realized he had a problem.
[Tech moves: Qumulo adds former AWS and Chef exec; Shiftboard adds to leadership team; and more](
By Clare McGrane
It’s been a busy year at Qumulo:  the data storage and data informatics company announced a new CEO in November, and capped $100 million in funding last summer.
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[Uber’s flying car project is taking off; company hires NASA engineer for Uber Elevate team](
By Jillian Stampher
Uberâs vision for a flying car just got a lot clearer.
[New court filing: Google, Uber, Microsoft and nearly 100 others back Washington state case vs. Trump](
By Monica Nickelsburg
Nearly 100 companies â including Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, Uber and other big technology brands â filed a brief overnight with the U.S.
[Amazon’s Super Bowl ad features a Prime Air drone delivery ordered with Alexa](
By Taylor Soper
Amazon again dropped the big bucks for Super Bowl advertising time to promote its digital voice assistant.
[Super Bowl drones: Intel uses 300 ‘quadcopters’ for halftime light show with Lady Gaga](
By Taylor Soper
Update:Â The drones â 300 of them â were indeed from Intel.
[T-Mobile goes on Super Bowl marketing blitz with four ads during the big game](
By Taylor Soper
You’ll see plenty of T-Mobile during the Super Bowl on Sunday.
[Elon Musk stirs up an epic tweetstorm over Donald Trump and America’s legal system](
By Alan Boyle
Tech wizard Elon Musk's fans hang on his every word when he tweets about SpaceX or Tesla â or about President Donald Trump and America's legal system.
[Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa offers a Super Bowl prediction â and it may surprise you](
By Taylor Soper
Alexa must like underdogs. Amazon’s virtual assistant, which powers the company’s Echo devices, is predicting a Falcons victory in today’s Super Bowl â despite Atlanta being a 3-point underdog to New England.
[Watch: Google’s Super Bowl commercial stars Google Home, its voice-activated smart speaker](
By Taylor Soper
Millions of people watching Super Bowl 51 today will get a taste of Google Home.
[Watch: ‘So-called judge’ hears arguments and rules on President Trump’s immigration order](
By Todd Bishop
A federal judge’s ruling on Friday, temporarily suspending President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration, is having an impact across the nation this weekend as some people who were blocked from entering the United States last week are once again able to travel to the country.
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[Elon Musk sees ‘progress’ on immigration after White House meeting with Trump](
By Alan Boyle
After sitting in on a business advisory meeting with President Donald Trump, billionaire Elon Musk says "there will be progress" on immigration policy.
[Federal judge’s ruling doesn’t block this key part of Trump’s immigration order](
By Monica Nickelsburg
Critics of President Trump’s immigration policy celebrated Washington state’s victory Friday, after a federal judge granted a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO), immediately halting implementation of key elements of the executive order’s travel ban.
[Microsoft tries to reinvent sports autographs, but can a digital signature replace good old-fashioned ink?](
By Taylor Soper
Microsoft wants to change how sports fans think about autographs.
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