Verizon turned on 5G in Memphis, Tennessee, on Thursday — its fourth new 5G city in four days and its 22nd altogether. Memphis’ rollout follows the same in Los Angeles on Monday, Des Moines, Iowa, on Tuesday, and Hoboken, New Jersey, on Wednesday. Verizon’s 5G network is already live in Dallas, Omaha, Atlanta, Detroit, Indianapolis, Washington, DC, Chicago, …
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What could make an experience like being among the first in the world to see Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker even better? Stepping out of the theater and getting to interact with the newly introduced red armor-clad Sith troopers in real time. At the afterparty for the film’s world premiere in Hollywood, California, attendees were able to get some …
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A human defeated a computer-piloted drone in the Drone Racing League’s first man-vs.-machine competition. But the programmers behind the AI-powered drone, Team MAVLab from the Netherlands, can take consolation in a $1 million prize for creating the fastest self-piloting aircraft this season. The Drone Racing League mostly involves human pilots, but this year it began its first computer-piloted drone competition, …
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The Federal Communications Commission said Wednesday that it plans to ditch a $4.5 billion subsidy program for 4G LTE in rural areas and instead launch a $9 billion fund to bring 5G wireless to hard to reach parts of the country. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said the new fund will help carriers pay for 5G deployments in sparsely populated, hard-to-reach areas …
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Amazon Web Services has announced three quantum computing services that’ll bring the super-futuristic supercomputing technology within reach of everyday folks, as reported Monday by CNET sister site ZDNet. During its annual AWS re:Invent conference, it unveiled Amazon Braket, the AWS Center for Quantum Computing and the Amazon Quantum Solutions Lab. AWS noted in its announcement that it had joked 10 …
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai issued a proposal Wednesday to dedicate slivers of the 5.9 gigahertz spectrum band to unlicensed Wi-Fi use and the use of Qualcomm’s cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) protocol. The move is considered somewhat controversial since it goes against recommendations from the US Department of Transportation. The Qualcomm technology promises to let vehicles wirelessly communicate with one …
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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi appears to be backtracking after calling the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi “a serious mistake.” During an interview with Axios on HBO that aired Sunday, Khosrowshahi defended the country’s investment in Uber. He said the murder of Khashoggi by the Saudi government was a mistake, similar to how a fatal accident involving one of Uber’s …
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Before 5G changes how people use technology, regulators and lawmakers want to make sure that the network update won’t lead to a cybersecurity nightmare. For all the advances it’ll bring in internet speeds and new devices, 5G could also be a gateway to more surveillance and cyberattacks. But even though the issues are apparent, the way to attack them is …
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Uber announced it laid off another 350 employees on Monday from several teams across the company. This is the ride-hailing service’s third round of layoffs over the past 10 weeks and brings the total number of people cut from its payroll to 1,185. Company CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said he intends for this to be Uber’s final round of layoffs. “Days …
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Since 2016, the human pilots of the Drone Racing League have competed to see who could whip a quadcopter around pylons and through hoops the fastest. On Tuesday, they’ll get a new challenge: the fully autonomous RacerAI, a drone programmed to fly itself. Nine teams of programmers from around the world have have been coding for months to come up …
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