Enlarge / A Starlink satellite dish. (credit: Starlink) SpaceX is asking Starlink customers to help the company win a regulatory battle against Dish Network. In an email urging users to contact the Federal Communications Commission and members of Congress, SpaceX yesterday said a Dish plan to use the 12 GHz spectrum band for mobile service…
Enlarge (credit: Douglas Rissing | iStock / Getty Images Plus) Retaliating TikTok users have created an online blitz of protest videos following the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade, and many of these videos claimed to be doxxing the five conservative judges who cast the votes denying the federal right to abortion. Vice reports that…
Enlarge (credit: areeya_ann | iStock / Getty Images Plus) With abortion access becoming more limited throughout the US, demand has spiked for emergency contraceptive pills that can help prevent pregnancy up to 72 hours after sex. This week, in an effort to maintain supply, Amazon joined retailers like CVS and Walmart by placing temporary limits…
Enlarge / The United Arab Emirates flag. (credit: Getty Images | Tim de Waele ) Amazon has started blocking LGBT-related products and search results in the United Arab Emirates to comply with a government demand in the country, which bans homosexuality. The new restrictions are spelled out in internal Amazon documents, according to The New…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | grinvalds) The Federal Communications Commission today said it closed a robocall loophole by requiring small phone companies to implement the caller ID authentication technology known as STIR and SHAKEN. Large voice providers were required to implement STIR/SHAKEN a year ago. But there was an exemption for carriers with 100,000 or…
Enlarge (credit: 400tmax | iStock Unreleased) More than a billion people worldwide have signed up for Google accounts, clicking through screens promising that “your personal info is private and safe.” This week, Google’s sign-up process came under fire when European Union consumer rights groups issued new privacy complaints suggesting that the opposite is true—that Google…
Enlarge / A Starlink satellite dish. (credit: Starlink) SpaceX has secured US approval to provide Starlink satellite Internet service on moving vehicles, ships, and airplanes. In an order released Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission granted SpaceX’s application to operate consumer and enterprise Earth stations in motion (ESIM) throughout the US. The FCC also approved a…
Enlarge / Tesla factory in Fremont, California as seen on April 20, 2022. (credit: Getty Images | Justin Sullivan ) Tesla is facing a new racial discrimination lawsuit filed by 15 factory employees who allege that Tesla’s “standard operating procedures include blatant, open, and unmitigated race discrimination.” Racial harassment and discrimination is “rampant” at Tesla…
Enlarge / MNT’s “Pocket Reform” is the same open hardware in a smaller enclosure. (credit: MNT) A few months ago, we reviewed the MNT Reform, which attempts to bring the dream of entirely open source hardware to an audience that doesn’t want to design and build a laptop totally from scratch. Now, MNT is bringing its…
Enlarge / HTC’s metaverse phone. (credit: HTC) HTC is somehow still making smartphones. The latest from the company is the HTC Desire 22 Pro, a 399 British pound (~$486) mid-ranger that represents the company’s first smartphone of 2022. HTC says this phone will somehow help you “enter the metaverse,” as “the phone to carry you into…