The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has declined Starlink's application for $885 million in federal subsidies to provide satellite internet to broadband consumers in rural areas. The FCC points out the SpaceX-owned firm's $600 dish and states that Starlink "failed to demonstrate" that it "could deliver the promised service."The financing is part of a wider $9.2 billion...
The commitments by telecoms firms include allowing customers struggling with bills to move to cheaper packages without charge or penalty. Credit: Rui Vieira/PAThe UK's broadband and biggest mobile companies have agreed on a strategy to help consumers struggling to pay bills amid the cost of living crisis, including moving to permit switching to cheaper deals...
The researchers' method: introducing ripples in 2D material, molybdenum disulfide to achieve two orders of magnitude enhancement in carrier mobility at room temperature, allowing electrons to move faster through the material. Credit: Dr. Wu Jing, A*STAR, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering.Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are semiconducting materials with thicknesses on the atomic range, which...
A report states that Tesla and Honda's self-driving cars had 363 accidents in a year.We were assured a very near future where autonomous machines would be serving our demands and vehicle ownership would be rendered unneeded: robots would rapidly and effectively deliver our orders, and we might squeeze in a couple of more hours...
Examples of abnormal signals. Shown are raw data, log-spectrogram, and obtained coefficient distribution per level for two abnormal measurements of the slider rail 0 at SNR 0 dB. Credit: DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2106598119Sounds offer crucial info regarding how well a device is running. ETH scientists have now developed a new machine learning strategy that detects whether...
NIST communications researchers traveled to downtown Boulder, Colorado, to verify their channel model for evaluating high-frequency wireless network designs. Credit: ZDNET.As Wi-Fi is deployed in cities and at greater frequencies, it may rely on an abundant urban resource: streetlight poles.To guarantee these networks work well, scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology...
Credit: whichcar.According to one of the industry's top leaders, the transportation sector has been praised as one of the largest parts of Australia's regional economy to lead us through our post-COVID-19 recuperation period.The Australian Automobile AssociationThe Australian Automobile Association (AAA) has called for transportation to become among the leading sectors in Australia's financial restoration...
Credit: Adrienn TomorReaching a clinic, going to school, the marketplace, or work, for many people in rural Tanzania depends on safely traversing a river.Around 40 million people reside in remote areas of the East African country, among the world's poorest economies.High steel and reinforced concrete costs and a fast-growing population suggest the national...
A 3D illustration of fiber optic cables. Credit: Christoph Bergstedt / iStockWe are in for an information revolution. Engineers in Japan demolished the world record for the fastest internet speed, reaching a data transmission rate of 319 Terabits per second (Tb/s), according to a paper presented at the International Conference on Optical Fiber Communications...
5G means fifth-generation cellular network technology, and the technology allows wireless communication. For example, from your cellphone to a cell tower, which conducts it to the internet. 5G is a network service offered by telecommunications providers and is not the exact same thing as the 5 GHz band on your Wi-Fi router.5G presents an...
