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Dish gets second chance to nab valuable wireless airwaves

Satellite TV provider Dish Network may still have a chance to get its hands on discounts to buy valuable wireless spectrum. A federal appeals court said Thursday that the Federal Communications Commission “acted reasonably and consistently” two years ago in the AWS-3 wireless auction when it decided to deny so-called designated entity discounts to two Dish affiliates, SNR and Northstar. …

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ARCore is Google’s Tango replacement. Can it catch Apple?

Google pledged last November that Tango, its 3D-sensing camera technology that can measure objects just by looking at them, would be the hottest thing since GPS. Nikhil Chandhok, Tango’s director of product, insisted it wasn’t just an experiment. “Many, many phone manufacturers” would build Tango phones in 2017, he said. Well, guess what? Turns out it was an experiment, one …

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