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Curiousmatic
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Washington Post
The world wide web still isn't all that worldwide.
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Techcrunch
Every time we return to or sign up for an Internet service (e.g. Facebook, Google, Gmail, YouTube, etc.), we rely on what UX experts call a "mental model" for navigating through the choices. A mental model is essentially a person's intuition of how something works based on past knowledge, similar experiences and common sense. So even when something is new, mental models help to make sense of it, u
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DW
Construction has begun on India's multi-billion dollar high-speed broadband network. With plans to connect 600 million rural citizens, the optical fiber network will be the largest of its kind.
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International Business Times
American, Chinese and domestic phone makers target the subcontinent as carriers upgrade to high-speed networks.
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Quartz
Hint: There’s nothing wrong with Africa’s internet connections.
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Financial Times
A new arms race in our skies threatens the satellites that control everything from security to communications
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The Hill
The idea: require federally funded highway projects to include broadband pipes.
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Arstechnica
Powered by radios in trees, homegrown network serves 50 houses on Orcas Island.
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Techcrunch
The number of Internet users in India is tipped to surpass 400 million by the end of this year, making it the second largest online population in the world behind only China, according to a new report from the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and market research IMRB.
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The Verge
There's only one set of presentation slides I look forward to every year, and that's Mary Meeker's annual Internet Trends report. In 2016, the highlight picked out by Meeker, partner at venture...
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ArsTechnica
Controversial copyright reform package also unveiled along with new "YouTube rule."
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Futurism
In a trial conducted by Nokia Bell Labs, Deutsche Telekom T-Labs and Technical Univeristy of Munich just achieved one terabyte transmission rate over fiber optics using realistic network conditions. The trials used a new modulation technique to make data transfer more efficient.
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Stratfor
The company is still a long way from realizing its plan to provide fast broadband service worldwide.
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Tech Republic
The future is still uncertain for Google Fiber, but it's pretty clear that the first iteration of the search giant's internet service has fallen short. Here's why it struggled to gain traction.
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Fast Company
The three new ViaSat-3s will deliver twice the combined network capacity of all the connected satellites in space.
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Stratfor
Submarine cables are decidedly uncool. But while they lack the flashiness of satellites, it's actually the world’s vast network of fiber optic cables that does most of the heavy lifting in keeping our information flowing from place to place.
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YouTube - Vox
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Techcrunch
Google is preparing to use light beams to bring rural areas of the planet online after it announced to a planned rollout in India. Alphabet’s X — the company formerly known as Google X — is working with a telecom operator in Indian state Andhra Pradesh, home to over 50 million people, to use Free Space Optical Communications […]
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Live Science
The Chinese satellite Micius has once again shattered records, this time enabling practical quantum encryption between Beijing and Austria.
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Physics
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Nature
Networks that harness entanglement and teleportation could enable leaps in security, computing and science. Networks that harness entanglement and teleportation could enable leaps in security, computing and science.
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CNET
If all goes well, Kenya's remote areas will get Wi-Fi from the sky.
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Singularity Hub
As the population of online users doubles, we’re about to witness perhaps the most historic acceleration of technological innovation known to man.
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The Guardian
Researchers say they have developed tiny readers that can detect information in light spirals
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Techcrunch
Entrepreneurs and tech executives are widening their gazes outside of developed nations for their next source of growth. Ubiquitous cheap phones and increasingly affordable phone plans such as Jio in India are helping another billion users join the internet. What do those users want though, and how are they the same and different than existing […]
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Wired
Critics argued that Article 13, and related legislation passed today by MEPs, risked infringing on freedom of speech
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The Verge
The European Parliament has voted in favor of the final text of the Copyright Directive, controversial new legislation that redefines copyright in Europe for the internet age. Articles 11 and 13 — the ‘link tax’ and ‘upload filter’ — were both approved by European politicians
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The Verge
3,236 satellites will provide internet from low Earth orbit
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CNBC
Adam Gilmour from Gilmour Space Technologies says private companies are looking to launch thousands of small satellites into space that can provide high-speed broadband anywhere on the planet.
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Wall Street Journal
The most reliable streaming providers have typically used cable to deliver content. But that’s all changing with the launch of new and better satellites that...
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Gerd Leonhard
Thanks to Incisive events for making this available. See more details about the event here: http://www.online-information.co.uk/static/programme-overviewMy...
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Physics
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Information Week
Global networks have subtly morphed from vertical to horizontal architectures, with east-west traffic now dominating north-south. The impact on industry will be profound -- are your providers ready?
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Physics
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Medium
That is exactly how the Web looked back in 1994 — right before it exploded. Two decades later, it’s beginning to feel like we might be at a similar liminal moment. Our new contender for the Next Big…
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The AWL
I was talking to someone who works on one of those half-dozen or so apps that we tend to associate with teenagers: the ones that were built around some novel concept that distracted us for a few years while they ...
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The Verge
So let's talk about ad blocking.
You might think the conversation about ad blocking is about the user experience of news, but what we're really talking about is money and power in Silicon Valley....
You might think the conversation about ad blocking is about the user experience of news, but what we're really talking about is money and power in Silicon Valley....
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Arstechnica
Researchers stuff the world’s current fiber capacity into a single link.
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Axios
Researchers may produce a 30-mile piece of a far more secure communications system.
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MIT Technology Review
The fast train from Paris to Rotterdam was an hour late leaving the Gare du Nord. When it finally deposited me in the Dutch city, I discovered that the onward train to Delft had been suspended because of maintenance work on the tracks. It took two circuitous bus journeys and a taxi ride before I…
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One Zero
Today, 30 years on from my original proposal for an information management system, half the world is online. It’s a moment to celebrate how far we’ve come, but also an opportunity to reflect on how…
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Discover
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Android Community
While some countries still struggle actually getting 3G or 4G connectivity from their service providers, apparently, the age of 5G is almost upon us. Well, that is, if you live in South Korea. A 12-man delegation from their Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning went to the meeting of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) […]
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BGR
As the sheer volume of data transmitted over the web continues to grow by leaps and bounds, there has been a lot of speculation regarding whether or not the fiber optic cables which form the underlying foundation of the internet will eventually max out. Well not to fear.
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Consilium
In the early hours of 30 June 2015, after 12 hours of negotiation, the Latvian presidency reached a provisional deal with the European Parliament on new rules to end mobile phone roaming fees and safeguard open internet access, also known as net neutrality rules.
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BGR
Next month during the Def Con hacker conference in Las Vegas, security researcher Ben Caudill will unveil a potentially game changing device called a ProxyHam. Without question, the promise of ProxyHam should leave proponents of Internet privacy and anonymity beyond excited.
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Washington Post
Behind the quiet Internet revolution you've never heard of
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BGR
Your prayers have been finally answered – that is, if you asked for Google to come to New York City with free Wi-Fi for all. Because that’s totally happening this year, and it's all part of Google’s grandiose plan to bring free Wi-Fi to the world.
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Computer World
The underutilized UHF band is perfect for wireless data and can carry for miles, not blocked by walls or trees.
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Science Alert
Expect to hear a whole lot more about Li-Fi - a wireless technology that transmits high-speed data using visible light communication (VLC) - in the coming months.
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Patent Yogi
Cell phone users do not like inadequate mobile device cellular phone coverage. However, cell phone companies find it difficult to optimize the spread of the cell phone towers as the number of customers registered to a particular cell varies throughout the day. …
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Wired
Engineering students have discovered a way to reflect Wi-Fi packets instead of broadcasting them.
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MIT Technology Review
In the gleaming but quiet headquarters of a startup called Starry—above the din of Boston’s Downtown Crossing—40 engineers are toiling to achieve a disruptive vision: delivering Internet access to apartments and businesses, cheaply and wirelessly, nearly 100 times faster than the average home connection today. The idea of gigabit-per-second wireless service to homes has been…
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The Motely Fool
In a recent speech, the FCC chairman probably kickstarted the 5G movement, but it will be some time before AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, or Sprint brings the service to consumers.
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Semiengineering
Preparing For 5G The fifth generation of wireless communications technology is proceeding without established standards and a lack of global consensus on spectrum use.
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CNET
Your next wireless boost is about more than faster movie-streaming. Qualcomm is buzzing about 5G as the key to our future connectivity.
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South China Morning Press
China’s chance to lead global innovation may lie with 5G mobile technology development
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ZDnet
Immediate actions under the Australian government's 5G directions paper include actively contributing to international standardisation efforts, making spectrum available, and modernising telco regulations.
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CNET
Next-gen networks will have vast capacity so your phone can handle data even in massive crowds. Help for self-driving cars will have to wait longer, though.
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YouTube - CNBC
5G is a new, faster network with the potential to completely transform the internet. So what makes it so revolutionary? CNBC’s Tom Chitty explains.-----Subsc...
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PC Magazine
5G hasn't launched yet, but Finland's University of Oulu just convened a research group about 6G wireless. Here's what they're thinking.
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Sussex U
Initial testing on the next generation of mobile technology with the capability of delivering 100 times faster broadband has been successful.
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Inverse
It's going to be an uphill battle.
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CNET
What happens when movies can direct themselves?
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Stratfor
The arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou for suspected sanctions violations at Washington's request complicates Beijing's ability to engage in trade talks, given the company's critical importance to the Chinese economy.
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The New York Times
RT America, a network known for sowing disinformation, has a new alarm: the coming ‘5G Apocalypse.’
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Search Engine Watch
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Sand Hill Road
It’s that time of the year again: Mary Meeker, the “queen of the internet”???, has done her analysis ??♀️ and her legendary Internet Trends Report is out for 2019! This time it comes in at 333…
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BBC
Banksy reckoned we would all be anonymous for 15 minutes, but is this even possible?
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Governing
Bay Street’s Innovation Corridor in Jacksonville, Fla., is just a ‘petri dish’ for the state to test out the ‘Internet of Things’ in everyday life. But it’s also a good idea of what the Florida future could look like.