Amazon has a plan to deliver internet from space using 3,236 small satellites in low Earth orbit. It’s called Project Kuiper. In April, the company signed a multibillion-dollar contract — the largest rocket deal in the history of the commercial space industry — for launches of its Kuiper satellites with three different entities: Jeff Bezos’s […]
T-Mobile launched its 5G home internet service around this time last year with the promise of a low $50 monthly rate, easy setup, and data speeds at least as good as traditional broadband internet. In reality, it’s kind of a mixed bag. This year, it’s hoping to tempt more people away from traditional internet providers […]
Getting a tattoo is a big decision, but one man’s choice has gained viral attention online this week after his bad tattoo was shared online. In a post on Saturday on Reddit’s r/funny subreddit, user u/traatraa shared the bad tattoo picture with the caption: “So my nephew got a tattoo…” With more than 51,000 upvotes […]
A Starlink satellite in space. Credit: SpaceX/Wikimedia Commons CC0 Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites officially brought high-speed internet services to Greece on Thursday. Although the company’s plan to provide internet via satellite was approved by Greece in fall of last year, Starlink internet was made available on Thursday. The Starlink project involves a fleet of flat-paneled […]
The next iteration of the internet, so-called web 3.0, will have the ability to automatically execute transactions using digital currency. Will that digital currency be private stablecoins or a Federal Reserve digital currency (FRDC)? My guess is that web 3.0 will run on a hybrid digital currency that includes a new type of bank deposit […]
There was something wonderfully apt about the notion of the band Twenty One Pilots appearing on the original motion picture soundtrack for Top Gun: Mavericka movie about a naval aviator. So, when lead singer Tyler Joseph revealed that the electro-pop duo had been fired by Tom Cruise from the project in a massive and unexpected […]
Mr. Walden eventually enrolled at San Francisco State College (now University) and received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1964. His interest in computing grew from a course he took in numerical analysis that involved working on an IBM computer. After college, he went to work for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Lincoln Laboratory as […]
Internet commenters were appalled after one woman described her husband’s reaction to a reckless driver nearly striking their kids and dog. In a viral Reddit post published in r/AmITheA**hole, Redditor u/Puzzlehead_Gate562 (otherwise referred to as the original poster, or OP) said she turned the driver in to the authorities, but was reprimanded and insulted by […]
The Federal Trade Commission today said it “has moved to stop Internet service provider Frontier Communications from lying to consumers and charging them for high-speed Internet speeds it fails to deliver.” Frontier was sued by the FTC in May 2021, and on Thursday, it agreed to a settlement with the FTC and district attorneys in […]
Starlink’s internet-from-SpaceX service has gone mobile with a new Portability feature. For an additional monthly fee, Starlink subscribers can now take their “dishy” anywhere on their home continent that provides active internet coverage. That opens up connectivity to remote places that will likely never be covered by 5G — a potential boon to the increasing […]