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From where I stand, changing direction on Connexion now would be snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. The biggest problem with Connexion, the city of Fort Collins’ broadband service, is that the deployment wasn’t further along before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. Demand for Connexion has risen dramatically since COVID. With demand comes revenue with a short […]

It turns out, late night TV is home to a true pancake artist. Fallon tagged fellow late night host Jimmy Kimmel in his Instagram post, likely because Kimmel has been making edible pancake art for his family for years and it’s good — really good. Unlike Jimmy Fallon’s unrecognizable Elsa, Kimmel has produced near-spitting images […]

London, August 24 Scientists in the UK claim they have achieved the world’s fastest internet data transmission rate, a speed which would make it possible to download the entire Netflix library in less than a second. The researchers from University College London (UCL) in the UK achieved a data transmission rate of 178 terabits a […]

Several school districts may be picking up where they left off in March when many schools in the country suddenly shut down due to concerns over coronavirus. Now, as people approach the beginning of the school year, teachers, administrators and families are adapting to an unusual first day of school, and many schools have a […]

School districts are going virtual this year. But for for students and teachers who live in rural areas, logging on could be a difficult task. SUFFOLK, Va. — Getting ready for a new school year is always a lot of work, but this year there’s added stress because of the coronavirus pandemic. Like a lot […]

With no Wi-Fi or reliable internet access during the COVID-19 pandemic, Susana Encarnacion of New London had some trouble during doctors’ appointments for her 9-year-old son, Jeremiah, who has asthma and attention deficit disorder. The stay-at-home mother, who moved to New London from the Dominican Republic 16 years ago, said she and her husband used to have […]

OSWEGO — It has been two years since Spectrum Cable made a promise to increase high-speed internet access to underserved areas in New York State and still nothing has been done. In 2018, Spectrum had promised New York it would expand cable to underserved areas if the state would approve its merger with Time Warner […]

getty Tim Wu’s articles and publications are always worth reading: a professor at Columbia Law School, a lawyer, an expert in technology and its effects, and the creator, among other things, of the term net neutrality. In short, his views are not to be taken lightly. His article in The New York Times, “A TikTok […]

Photo Illustration by Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 — Microsoft is killing off their 25-year-old browser, Internet Explorer. Microsoft announced this past week that they will be […]

As the coronavirus pandemic gained traction in the United States, internet searches for key words related to panic attacks and acute anxiety spiked. Google searches for anxiety symptoms from mid-March to mid-May were the highest they’ve been in the history of the search engine, according to researchers at the Qualcomm Institute’s Center for Data Driven […]