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5G technology begins to expand beyond smartphones

The deployment of superfast 5G networks is supposed to usher in a new era for so much more than the smartphone—everything from enhanced virtual-reality videogames to remote heart surgery. That vision has been slow to come into focus, but the first wave of 5G-enabled gadgets is emerging.

Jeff Bezos arrives for Blue Origin suborbital spaceflight

The crew of New Shepard's NS-18 mission includes 90-year-old "Star Trek" veteran William Shatner, Blue Origin's vice president of mission and flight operations Audrey Powers, former NASA engineer and Planet Labs co-founder Dr. Chris Boshuizen and Medidata co-founder and Dassault Systèmes' vice chair for life sciences and healthcare Glen de Vries.