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While most of us were gleefully chasing down the Northern Lights last weekend, the New York Times (via Yahoo News) reports on another side… The powerful geomagnetic storm that cast the northern lights’ vivid colors across the Northern Hemisphere over the weekend also caused some navigational systems in tractors and other farming equipment to break…
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.
Broadband Breakfast reports... Leaders representing several broadband providers across the state of Minnesota are publicly urging state lawmakers to drop Article 10 of the House Labor Omnibus bill, citing that it would increase costs, increase bureaucracy, and decrease investments for broadband deployment. The letter, which was sent to Democratic Gov. Tim Waltz, urged the state to make key…
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.
Microsoft must pay patent owner IPA Technologies $242 million, a federal jury in Delaware said on Friday after determining that Microsoft's Cortana virtual-assistant software infringed an IPA patent.
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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.
A federal judge has dismissed X Corp's lawsuit against Israeli company Bright Data, which allegedly scraped and sold publicly available data that users had posted to the social platform X, formerly Twitter.
UK trade group warns that purported plan could undermine "the financial sustainability of journalism."
There’s a new plan to revive the Affordable Connectivity Program, a pandemic-era initiative that provides low-income households in the US with discounts on high-speed internet access. A bipartisan group of senators, led by Sen Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) have proposed using a Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization measure as a vehicle for funding the ACP and other telecom programs for a combined $6 billion. The coalition includes Sens J.D. Vance (R-OH), Peter Welch (D-VT), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Steve Daines (R-MT), and Roger Wicker (R-MS).
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.
Starlink, the satellite arm of Elon Musk's SpaceX, warned on Saturday of a "degraded service" as the Earth is battered by the biggest geomagnetic storm due to solar activity in two decades.
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