Charles Verhoeven, the Quinn Emanuel partner representing Samsung in this part of the trial, took the witnesses on an increasingly uncomfortable tour of the fine points of phone design, pointing out a series of small but noticeable differences between iPhones and Samsung designs.

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This pending move back to planetary science from earth sub-orbit comes on the heels of improvements in pointing systems and instrument technologies that will allow ground-based controllers to fine-tune balloon payloads to include one-meter class optical and infrared telescopes.

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