As more than 23 million households nationwide lose pandemic-era federal aid to pay for internet services, some states and localities have expanded their broadband initiatives and programs to help fill the gap.

For anyone excited about the possibilities of U.S.-China science collaboration, the new semiconductor at Georgia Tech is a perfect example of how globalized research drives progress.

In January, physicist Walt de Heer produced the world’s first functional graphene-based semiconductor, developed mostly at a joint Georgia Institute of Technology-Tianjin University lab. He dubbed his breakthrough a “Wright brothers moment,” the birth of a next-generation material that could undergird the electronic devices of the future.

For some worried about the risks of U.S.-China collaboration, however, it’s a blinking red light.

Federal regulations protect us only from the thermal risk from short-term exposure to radio-frequency radiation (RFR). The federal limits ignore the preponderance of peer-reviewed science that has found harmful biological or health effects from exposure to non-thermal levels of RFR on humans and wildlife.

Cell towers were the largest source of environmental RFR exposure in a six-nation study my colleagues and I published in the journal Environment International. For a summary of research on cell tower health effects see my saferemr.com website.

SpaceX's Elon Musk said the company's Starlink satellites were "under a lot of pressure" from the incoming radiation.

A report by publisher analytics firm Chartbeat and digital intelligence platform Similarweb finds referral traffic from Facebook to publisher websites has declined 50% over the past 12 months.

TikTok plans to start labelling images and video uploaded to its video-sharing service that have been generated using artificial intelligence, it said on Thursday, using a digital watermark known as Content Credentials.

A new broadband service from Comcast comes with a sales pitch that looks like the work of a different company: no data cap, no hardware fees, no contract, and no prices that balloon after a promotional term.

But the Philadelphia cable giant’s Now Internet, available as of Thursday throughout its service footprint after trials in Hartford-New Haven, Houston, and Miami, doesn’t replace its Xfinity-branded broadband. 

Instead, Now Internet is a prepaid offering with slower download speeds than most Xfinity plans, which usually start at 300Mbps and top out at 1.2Gbps or 2Gbps except in fiber-upgraded pockets of Comcast’s network, where subscribers willing to pay $300 a month can get 10Gbps—as well as cheaper and simpler pricing. 

The construction for Garfield County’s Broadband Initiative has officially been completed, as the project — aiming to provide more reliable internet access to all parts of the county — reaches phase three.  Last month

Is Starlink earning enough money to keep the business going? One analyst firm thinks so; it projects that SpaceX's satellite internet business is now "self-sustaining," with Starlink revenues projected to reach $6.6 billion this year. 

The estimate comes from Quilty Space, which developed a model that calculates Starlink's earnings potential since SpaceX, a private company, doesn't publicly reveal revenue and profits. Quilty estimates that Starlink has reached “free cash flow positive,” meaning it’s making enough money to cover all its operating expenses and investments, with some cash left over. 

A few months ago, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ordered Apple to change its app store rules. They didn't. Now she's very angry. Plus, the Antitrust Division is gearing up to go at Big Medicine.

On Tuesday, near the back of the cavernous Washington Convention Center, past booth after colorful booth of federal agencies looking for AI solutions and a dizzying array of tech companies trying to pitch them, a Defense Department official had a message for startup founders, venture capitalists and the assembled national security crowd: Let’s bet on some winners.

Doug Beck, Director of the Defense Innovation Unit, was speaking at a two-day AI expo that drew more than 7000 people to talk about technology, defense and China — and sell ideas to each other.

Startup WeLink was founded with the goal of using wireless to provide fiber-like Internet services. Roughly six years after its founding, the company still believes it can reach that goal.

Silicon is so important for electronics and computing that it’s become synonymous with technology – even getting a valley named after it – but the stuff still has its flaws. Now, scientists have created a way to make super-pure silicon chips that could pave the way for more stable quantum computers.

'ACP is now at risk,' said Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and 'we know how crucial the internet is.'

Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile must pay a $10.22 million fine as part of a settlement reached over the deceptive advertising of “unlimited” data plans.

Alachua County Public Works has seen an explosion in permit requests for fiber optic installations over the past year, meaning expanded internet options for residents. 

The county has no control over who gets to install fiber in its right-of-way, and Aaron Burke, interim construction inspector superintendent, said permitting around 300 miles of fiber installation has been a big lift. 

Besides permitting the work, Alachua County also sets parameters to ensure the safety of public and private assets. Burke and his team of three other inspectors ensure compliance with the county’s rules.  

Hello, and welcome to this week’s installment of the Future in Five Questions. This week I interviewed the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s director Arati Prabhakar, who’s led the Biden administration’s hyperactive response to the artificial intelligence boom. Prabhakar discussed the White House’s “human choices”-centric approach to regulating AI, the relationship between her career in tech policy and “Groundhog Day,” and why there’s still room for the administration to “go big” even after its sweeping executive order. An edited and condensed version of the conversation follows.

'Our bill gives Big Tech a choice: Work with Congress to ensure the Internet is a safe, healthy place for good, or lose Section 230 protections entirely,'

Apple is reportedly nearing a deal with OpenAI that would bring ChatGPT to the iPhone.

The two are hammering out details of an agreement that would bring the chatbot to iOS 18, according to Bloomberg, which cites people familiar with the matter. Apple is reportedly also in talks with Google to potentially use its Gemini AI in the iPhone, but no deal has been finalized.

Leaders gathered at Broadband Communities Summit 2024 to discuss how to successfully gather local support for constructing a publicly owned network.