Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | jetcityimage) Frontier Communications has agreed to stop charging its sneaky $7-per-month “Internet Infrastructure Surcharge” as part of a settlement with Connecticut Attorney General William Tong. Frontier also agreed to spend $42.5 million to expand fiber deployment in Connecticut, make a payment to the state, and improve customer service. Unfortunately for…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
The MOXIE instrument is lowered into the Perseverance rover in 2019. NASA/JPL-Caltech A trip to Mars will be difficult, to say the least. Although human spaceflight has become a regular occurrence in near-Earth space in recent decades, leaving our gravitational pull takes a lot of rocket power. And then leaving a planet like Mars to…
We’re nearly at the stopping point ahead of a long weekend here in the United States, but that doesn’t mean that the tech market has given up on making news. And the news is not good. In the wake of Snap’s layoffs and startup staff-cutting galore, you are likely not surprised that there is some bad…
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Google and its video sharing app YouTube outlined plans for handling the 2022 U.S. midterm elections this week, highlighting tools at its disposal to limit the effort to limit the spread of political misinformation. When users search for election content on either Google or YouTube, recommendation systems are in place to highlight journalism or video…
With virtual no sound, but considerable wrist pressure, the Huawei Watch D took my blood pressure while I sat in a booth at IFA 2022 in Berlin. That’s all, just some wearable technology performing a function typically the sole purview of those cuffs you wear in the doctor’s office. It felt halfway between uncomfortable and…
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump AP Photo Polls have shown most Democrats want a different presidential nominee in 2024. But Biden’s Democratic allies say Biden’s ability to defeat Trump can’t be overlooked. The idea of a Trump run is “weighing” on Biden, who will speak tonight on threats to American democracy. Rep….
Mary Peltola, the representative-elect for Alaska and former governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin. Ash Adams for The Washington Post via Getty Images, Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Peltola said Palin congratulated her after she beat Palin in a special House election on Wednesday. Peltola narrowly defeated Palin in a special House election in Alaska’s at-large congressional district….
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Having released a new premium Matebook X Pro model for 2022 just a few months ago, Huawei has refreshed its top-tier model again at IFA 2022. It’s very much a case of refinement with the latest MateBook X Pro, both in terms of design and power. Where the earlier model was built from aluminium alloy,…