Elon Musk took the virtual stage at Mobile World Congress 2021, with the Tesla and SpaceX CEO speaking about his satellite internet venture Starlink. The high-speed broadband service is set to become available worldwide in August and expects to serve more than 500,000 customers, Musk said Tuesday. You can rewatch the entire presentation live on …
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Broadband use surged 30% to 40% during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, and even reached 60% in some areas, an industry group has concluded. Although the internet shouldered the load without much problem, you might consider upgrading your own network equipment to avoid issues. The broadband use increase began as people started working from home in March 2020, when …
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It’s becoming a regular thing: Once again, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey testified before Congress. This time around, it was about how their social media companies handled the 2020 US election, though the questioning also touched on tech addiction, encryption and antitrust. That was midday Tuesday; later in the day, President Trump fired the head of …
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Some signs that we’re finally living in the future: virtual reality headsets are finally a real thing, SpaceX routinely lands rockets vertically and data storage has become so cheap and plentiful I literally can’t remember the last time I worried about running out of space. Case in point: If you need to add an external hard drive to your computer …
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Microsoft is partnering with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to offer cloud computing in spacecraft and fleets of satellites through its Azure service, the tech giant said Tuesday. The move comes four months after Amazon announced that its Web Services unit is expanding into space. The company is also expanding its partnership with Luxembourg’s SES SA, which has a network of larger …
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Broke your ankle somewhere in Manitoba’s vast wilderness? Crashed your car on the highway somewhere outside Toronto? With location technology startup What3words, Canadians now have a new way to tell emergency responders exactly where they are — even if they don’t know themselves. And some emergency services in Los Angeles and Arizona have embraced the technology, too. What3words divides the …
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX has a month to convince officials at the Federal Communications Commission that its service is up to snuff to participate in an upcoming auction for government subsidies to deliver broadband to rural parts of the country. The agency said it has “serious doubts” that low-Earth orbit satellite providers, like SpaceX, will be able to meet latency requirements …
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Spotify continues to amp up its podcast push. On Tuesday, comedian Joe Rogan said his popular podcast, the Joe Rogan Experience, would be heading exclusively to Spotify. As part of a multi-year licensing deal, the show will be available on Spotify starting in September and become exclusive to the platform near the end of the year. The podcast, including the …
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SpaceX has prohibited employees from using the videoconferencing app Zoom, citing “significant privacy and security concerns,” Reuters reported Wednesday. As the novel coronavirus causing a surge in work- and learn-from-home activity, Zoom has quickly become the video meeting app of choice. An email sent to employees on Saturday said that all access to Zoom had been disabled. “We understand that many …
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Days after a report suggested that a billionaire activist investor wanted to replace Jack Dorsey as Twitter’s CEO, another company’s chief executive came to Dorsey’s defense. Tesla and SpaceX boss Elon Musk, a constant tweeter with more than 30 million followers — sent an affectionate tweet late Monday. “Just want say that I support @Jack as Twitter CEO. He has …
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