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By Savyata Mishra and Jessica DiNapoli (Reuters) -Major retailers from Levi Strauss (NYSE:) to Costco (NASDAQ:) are preparing alternative shipping plans to ensure goods arrive in time for the peak holiday season as the U.S. East Coast and Gulf Coast ports strike drags on. Long lines of container ships queued…

If Boeing and NASA can’t get their spaceship together, SpaceX may have to come to two astronauts’ rescue. The downside is the duo will be stuck on the International Space Station for about eight months longer than planned.Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams launched into orbit aboard Boeing’s Starliner vehicle…

By James Pearson LONDON (Reuters) – Elements of Friday’s global IT outage, which grounded planes and hit services from banking to healthcare, have occurred before and until more contingencies are built into networks, and organisations put better back-up plans in place, it will happen again. Friday’s outage was caused by…