AT&T and T-Mobile Claim Locked Phones Are Good, Actually
Mobile carriers argue that locking devices helps them lower costs. Consumer protection groups see it a little differently.
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SpaceX Has a Plan for Starlink to Hit Gigabit Speeds
Read more: SpaceX Has a Plan for Starlink to Hit Gigabit SpeedsElon Musk’s satellite internet company told the FCC that a few tweaks to its “orbital configuration and operational parameters” could result in nearly 10 times faster downloads.
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Amid Air Strikes and Rockets, an SMS From the Enemy
Read more: Amid Air Strikes and Rockets, an SMS From the EnemyAs Israel intensifies its attacks on Lebanon, eerie messages have been arriving on the phones of civilians on both sides of the border, with authorities in each country accusing the other of psychological warfare.
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The Affordable Connectivity Program Died—and Thousands of Households Have Already Lost Their Internet
Read more: The Affordable Connectivity Program Died—and Thousands of Households Have Already Lost Their InternetThe ACP provided affordable internet connectivity to low-income Americans. Since it expired in May, around 100,000 Charter subscribers have had to pull the plug.
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Class Action Lawsuit Alleges T-Mobile Broke Its Lifetime Price Guarantee
Read more: Class Action Lawsuit Alleges T-Mobile Broke Its Lifetime Price GuaranteeCustomers of the uncarrier want T-Mobile to pay up after switching their legacy phone plans for something more expensive.
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Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google
Read more: Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on GoogleNot too long ago, services like GOOG-411, 118 118 and AQA used actual humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge. Today’s search engines could learn something.
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The Affordable Connectivity Program Kept Them Online. What Now?
Read more: The Affordable Connectivity Program Kept Them Online. What Now?Millions of people relied on the federal Affordable Connectivity Program to stay online and access work, health care, and school. Now that the program has expired, some fear being cut off.
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Net Neutrality Returns to a Very Different Internet
Read more: Net Neutrality Returns to a Very Different InternetThe FCC voted 3-2 to restore net neutrality rules that had disappeared during the Trump administration.
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Smartphones Do or Don’t Harm Kids! So Which Is It?
Read more: Smartphones Do or Don’t Harm Kids! So Which Is It?Two new books offer radically different approaches to how people should think about smartphones and social media.
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The FCC Now Says Broadband Speed Should Be at Least 100 Mbps
Read more: The FCC Now Says Broadband Speed Should Be at Least 100 MbpsThe old broadband standard of 25 Mbps wasn’t cutting it anymore.
