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Leaders gathered at Broadband Communities Summit 2024 to discuss how to successfully gather local support for constructing a publicly owned network.
Starlink, the satellite arm of Elon Musk's SpaceX, warned on Saturday of a "degraded service" as the Earth is battered by the biggest geomagnetic storm due to solar activity in two decades.
Meta Platforms is urging a federal appellate court to reconsider a recent 2-1 decision allowing Facebook advertisers to proceed with a class-action fraud lawsuit over inflated metrics.
Elon Musk's X has policies to take down harmful content when it chooses but should not be allowed to overrule Australian law in deciding what can be viewed there, a lawyer for the cyber regulator told a hearing into video of a bishop being stabbed.
May 10 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge dismissed a lawsuit in which Elon Musk's X Corp accused an Israeli data-scraping company of illegally copying and selling content, and selling tools that let others copy and sell content, from the social media platform. U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco ruled on Thursday that X, formerly Twitter, failed to plausibly allege that Bright Data Ltd violated its user agreement by allowing the scraping and evading X's own anti-scraping technology.
Rural America has lost over half a million farms in the past 40 years, increasing the need for connectivity to support the nation's agriculture.
Great Plains Communications has announced a new fiber network expansion that will reach over 5,000 homes and businesses in rural and urban stretches of Nebraska.
Verizon said it's now supporting neutral host networks. But the company isn't doing so in the same way as T-Mobile and AT&T, which has prompted some concerns among companies in the sector.
Lawmakers had hoped to use the bill as a vehicle for securing funding for the program.
One of the important changes in the FCC’s recent order to reinstate Title II regulations is the transparency rules that have been put back into place. Transparency rules were first required in the 2010 Open Internet Order. That Order required ISPs to “publicly disclose accurate information regarding the network management practices, performance, and commercial terms…
Tesla’s gigafactory in Germany will temporarily pause production as a group of protesters encamped in the surrounding forest have ramped up their efforts to stop the company’s expansion.
A new bipartisan amendment would attach funds for the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) and rip-and-replace program to a broader must-pass FAA bill. There is now 'a material chance' the ACP gets extended, said Blair Levin.
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On Tuesday, near the back of the cavernous Washington Convention Center, past booth after colorful booth of federal agencies looking for AI solutions and a dizzying array of tech companies trying to pitch them, a Defense Department official had a message for startup founders, venture capitalists and the assembled national security crowd: Let’s bet on some winners. Doug Beck, Director of the Defense Innovation Unit, was speaking at a two-day AI expo that drew more than 7000 people to talk about technology, defense and China — and sell ideas to each other.
Microsoft must pay patent owner IPA Technologies $242 million, a federal jury in Delaware said on Friday after determining that Microsoft's Cortana virtual-assistant software infringed an IPA patent.
The Biden administration is poised to open up a new front in its effort to safeguard U.S. AI from China and Russia with preliminary plans to place guardrails around the most advanced AI models, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
A cryptocurrency nonprofit has launched a new political action committee (PAC) to raise money from its 440,000 members for crypto-friendly politicians, and is endorsing a bipartisan slate of candidates running in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
Ad industry groups said the law includes "the most onerous and restrictive approach to data privacy in the United States to date."
Hiawatha Broadband Communications, Inc, (HBC) announces Multi-Gig Flight Fiber Internet is now available in Farmington, MN.
Blind and low-vision people have experienced remarkable gains in information literacy because of digital technologies, like being able to access an online library offering more than 1.2 million books that can be translated into text-to-speech or digital Braille. But it can be a lot harder t
According to a report just released by the Pew Research Center, there are now 64 million American living in multigenerational homes. Pew’s definition of a multigenerational home is one that has adults of different generations over 25 years old living under the same roof. The age was set to 25 to exclude college students living…
According to The Wall Street Journal, T-Mobile is looking to buy $2 billion worth of UScellular in a deal that could be announced this month. Verizon, meanwhile, is considering a deal for some of the rest.
Every time I read something about the broadband industry, there's some mention of speeds, and most of the conversation revolves around meeting "minimum" threshold levels. Even though that's an important and worthwhile discussion, I want to bring to your attention something different when you think a
The company will be ponying up a few billion to bring the facility back from the dead.
The ACP provided a broadband subsidy for millions of Americans. Now Congress has a plan to reinstate it.
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