Credit: Unsplash / UmbertoComcast intends to bring multi-gig internet speeds to 34 cities throughout the United States by the end of the year and will afterward grow its reach to more than 50 million homes by the end of 2025. According to a press release, the internet provider has begun rolling out 2-gig speeds...
Royal Caribbean GroupThe SpaceX internet service for boats was released last month.Cruise ship giant Royal Caribbean has announced that it will equip its fleet with SpaceX's Starlink broadband satellite internet service. The dishes are designed to provide a "better onboard experience for guests and crews fleetwide" and will be installed on its Royal Caribbean...
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...
