July, 2018

• 20 July

  AT&T adds three more cities to mobile 5G rollout plan

  

  AT&T is thinking big — and midsize — when it comes to its rollout plan for mobile 5G. The wireless giant said Friday it’s added Oklahoma City, as well as Charlotte and Raleigh, both in North Carolina, to the list of cities slated to get access to AT&T’s super speedy network this year. The three …

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• 20 July

  Facebook is officially building an internet satellite: Athena

  

  This May, sleuths at IEEE Spectrum revealed something exciting — Facebook appeared to be secretly working on an experimental satellite that could beam internet down to Earth using millimeter wave radio signals. Now, Facebook has confirmed to Wired and CNET that the satellite, dubbed Athena, is indeed a Facebook project — and that Facebook is a believer in satellite internet technology. …

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• 20 July

  FCC now taking comments on whether T

  

  If you have burning thoughts about the T-Mobile and Sprint merger, now’s your chance to voice them.  The FCC is accepting petitions from now until Aug. 27 to deny the $26 billion merger, the commission said Wednesday. Those petitions as well as less formal comments can be submitted on the FCC’s docket page.  Oppositions to the petitions are due by Sept. …

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• 20 July

  MacOS Mojave beta broke Chrome’s checkboxes. Here are two ways to bring them back

  

  Perhaps it’s a move to nudge me toward Safari and its fancy new favicons. Or maybe it’s just a bug. Whatever the case may be, the beta of MacOS Mojave has broken a small but important part of Chrome: Checkboxes. Without checkboxes, I can’t, for example, conduct my online banking in Chrome or use CNET’s content management system. Any web …

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• 20 July

  Today I learned: Duck.com redirects to Google, much to DuckDuckGo’s annoyance (update)

  

  If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be Google, right?  Until today, if you typed duck.com into your browser right now and smacked the enter key, you’d see google.com appear.  Weird, huh? Particularly considering that there is a search engine known for ducks, and it’s not Google at all — but rather, its privacy-first rival DuckDuckGo, …

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• 20 July

  Samsung laughs at Apple’s dongles in latest Galaxy S9 ads

  

  Samsung’s latest ad campaign for the Galaxy S9 is poking Apple where it hurts — right in the dongle.  (In other words, they’re making fun of the extra adapters and cables that Apple users increasingly need to access “legacy” devices like wired headphones, SD card slots and other cables.) While the ad is definitely a parody of the Apple Store …

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• 20 July

  Split, Unbreakable come together in Glass trailer

  

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• 20 July

  This robotic skin gets ‘goosebumps’

  

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• 20 July

  Acura RDX A

  

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• 20 July

  Ring’s budget home security system covers the basics

  

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