SpaceX is poised to launch a Swedish broadband satellite tonight (Jan. 3) on the company’s second mission of 2024, and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Ovzon 3 satellite is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station tonight during a 10-minute window that opens at […]
Russian authorities in the temporarily occupied territories (TOT) continue to force passportization of locals by creating additional restrictions for those who refuse a Russian passport, Ukraine’s National Resistance Center (NRC) reported on Jan. 2. Mandatory passport verification of internet users is the newest method of forced passportization and control over locals. Read also: Russians add […]
Rolanda Hayden may owe her job to a fast home internet connection — and a benefit from Washington that lets her afford it. The 56-year-old resident of mountainous Brevard, N.C., started receiving federal aid that helps low-income people pay for broadband internet while she was studying for her bachelor’s degree during the coronavirus pandemic. The […]
The ball hasn’t fallen yet, but we’re already able to discern some outlines of what 2024 will have to offer for investors. An improving economic environment will likely give consumers more confidence, and that will have ripple effects at many levels. One sector certain to reap gains: internet stocks. According to Wedbush, in a recent […]
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence officials have determined that the Chinese spy balloon that flew across the U.S. this year used an American internet service provider to communicate, according to two current and one former U.S. official familiar with the assessment. The balloon connected to a U.S.-based company, according to the assessment, to send and receive […]
Bull market or bear market? Or a trend-less market as seen for weeks until news late last month that political leaders on both sides of the U.S. chambers of Congress reached a deal to raise the debt ceiling? Regardless of what stage of the market cycle we’re in, some folks never tire of searching for […]
I’m continuing on the question I last started with: Should school age students have access to their phones during school hours? Teachers and principals in general say no. Most school districts and each building has a policy of one sort or another about use of smartphones or internet devices during class time; often that has […]
Coming up in the Black and largely Protestant City of Detroit, it felt like a revolutionary act to abandon the church and organized religion as I did as a teenager in the mid-1990s. But I had little recourse: As soon as I developed some adult-adjacent sense, I looked around and realized that the milk was […]
On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The operators of the telegraphs reported receiving electrical shocks, telegraph paper catching fire, and being able to operate equipment with batteries disconnected. During the evenings, the aurora borealis, more commonly known as the northern lights, could be seen as far south as […]
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Ian McEwan encouraged aspiring young writers to “disconnect from the internet for at least two hours a day” after being honoured by Britain’s King Charles at Windsor Castle. The novelist and screenwriter was recognised for his services to literature by being made a Companion of Honour at an investiture ceremony on Tuesday morning. McEwan said […]
Ukraine on Wednesday entered the second day of limited communications after its largest mobile phone and internet provider was hit by a huge cyberattack, Ukrainian officials and the internet provider said Wednesday. The company, Kyivstar, shut down all mobile and internet service Tuesday after experiencing what its CEO said was a Russian cyberattack. The Kyivstar […]