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The 6 best live TV streaming services of 2023
If you're interested in going cable-free, you may want to switch to a live TV streaming service, which you can cancel at any time. There are even packages out there that let you stream sports and news online. That's great for anyone who wants to keep up with post-season NFL action and catch the Super Bowl without an expensive contract.
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Azure Went Dark
One little network configuration foul-up led to one huge Microsoft outage.
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Supreme Court Allows Reddit Mods To Anonymously Defend Section 230
Mods tell SCOTUS that Reddit's special formula depends on Section 230 immunity.
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Why Do All Websites Look the Same?
The internet suffers from a lack of imagination, so I asked my students to redesign it
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Best cloud storage apps in 2022, tested by our editors
Over the course of several weeks, we tested five different cloud storage apps to see which one is the best cloud storage app for you.
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Billions of people still lack high-speed internet. This S.F. company is building satellites to change that
Inside a warehouse at San Francisco’s Pier 70
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Communications system achieves fastest laser link from space yet
MIT Lincoln Laboratory, in partnership with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, built and designed a communications payload, TBIRD, which is demonstrating space-to-ground laser communications at unprecedented data rates.
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If Mastodon Existed In The 1980s...
Somewhere in a parallel universe, Mastodon already existed in the 1980s.
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Tumblr to add support for ActivityPub, the social protocol powering Mastodon and other apps
Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that’s today powering social networking software like Twitter alternative Mastodon, the Instagram-like Pixelfed, video streaming service PeerTube, and others.
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Apple silicon supports the ancient Intel 8080 through a secret extension
Apple revealed its first custom processor, the Apple M1, during an event in November 2020. The chip was met with high praise for cramming loads of power into a tiny space. Apple's M1 led people to wonder if SoCs were the future of computing. Due to switching to an ARM architecture, Apple had to figure out a way to allow M1 Macs to use programs that were designed with Intel-based Macs in mind.
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Mastodon, Peertube, Pixelfed: easily replace Twitter, Instagram and YouTube
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Why Egypt became one of the biggest chokepoints for Internet cables
When underwater cables congregate in one place, things get tricky.
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Record-breaking chip can transmit entire internet's traffic per second
The speed record for data transmission using a single light source and optical chip has been shattered once again. Engineers have transmitted data at a blistering rate of 1.84 petabits per second (Pbit/s), almost twice the global internet traffic per second.
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The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time
An obscure software system synchronizes the network’s clocks. Who will keep it running?
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The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet’s Time
An obscure software system synchronizes the network’s clocks. Who will keep it running?
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Comcast promises huge boost to cable upload speeds by end of 2023
Full Duplex DOCSIS expected in 2023 but won't be available to everyone at first.
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The Early Part of Internet History That People Don’t Talk About
The people who built the modem world in the 1980s laid the groundwork for millions of others who would bring their lives online in the 1990s and beyond.
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Flicking the kill switch: governments embrace internet shutdowns as a form of control
From Sudan to Syria, Jordan to Jaipur, the trend towards digital authoritarianism is deepening
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ARPANET pioneer Jack Haverty says internet is unfinished
When he retired with stuff left on his to-do list, he expected fixes would flow. They haven't
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The man who built his own ISP to avoid huge fees is expanding his service
A Michigan is expanding his fiber internet service from about 70 customers to nearly 600 thanks to funding aimed at expanding access to broadband internet
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