The “Internet of Things” essentially connects household products, industrial devices, vehicles, and much more to allow for advanced monitoring. Everyday products and machines can now be embedded with sensor technology to process data or interact with other electronic devices. For example, consumer-level IoT products include things like Amazon’s AMZN Echo “smart speaker,” wearable motion and […]
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Frontier demands $4,300 cancellation fee despite horribly slow Internet – Ars Technica
Getty Images | Bill Oxford Frontier Communications reportedly charged a cancellation fee of $4,302.17 to the operator of a one-person business in Wisconsin, even though she switched to a different Internet provider because Frontier’s service was frequently unusable. Candace Lestina runs the Pardeeville Area Shopper, a weekly newspaper and family business that she took over […]
Kentucky wants to pour another $20 million into its already over-budget internet plan – Courier Journal
CLOSE What is KentuckyWired, and why does the sate want it so bad? Louisville Courier Journal Story Highlights KentuckyWired was intended to bolster the state’s internet infrastructure by laying 3,200 miles of high-speed fiber optic cable. The project was supposed to be completed last year. So far, only 1,090 miles of cable has been installed […]
Unmasking the internet’s favourite novelist – ABC News
Posted February 23, 2019 06:23:08 Todd Noy was said to be a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a towering figure in the online fan-fiction community. His books were delivered around the world. But he may have never existed. Infographic: The hunt for a mysterious author drew Alexei Toliopoulos deep into an internet rabbit hole. (ABC: James […]
Virginia ‘Bigfoot’ Surfaces in Another Internet Photo – Our Community Now at Virginia
It’s a little blurry, but make no mistake: Bigfoot has been captured in another photo in Virginia. Details are a little scarce (like, really scarce), but a photo of a Virginia Bigfoot started circulating the internet this week after being posted on Squatchable. The time and location that the photo was taken are unknown, but […]
Shirtless Abraham Lincoln Statue At LA Courthouse Leaves Internet Thirsty – iHeartRadio
There are plenty of statues of Abraham Lincoln across the country that honor his amazing accomplishments like leading the United States to victory over the Confederacy in the Civil War and abolishing slavery with the Emancipation Proclamation, but few monuments pay attention to an important detail – the 16th president’s rock-hard body. It turns out […]
How ‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’ is a breakthrough for Disney diversity – Yahoo Entertainment
How is Ralph Breaks the Internet a breakthrough for diversity? Fify-one percent of the U.S. population is female. So are 51 percent of moviegoers. And still, studio films average 2.3 male characters for every female character. The Disney classics are no exception. Snow White has two named female speaking parts. Aladdin has one. The original Toy Story? Three. […]
TelOne Working With A Murambinda Company To Expand Internet Coverage – Good Model For Rural Connectivity – Technology Zimbabwe
Murambinda Works is a company from you guessed it- Murambinda, Buhera district. The company installed solar powered network towers on Nerutanga Mountain. The towers have a 40km radius. This can potentially connect businesses, government offices, clinics and about 80 schools within the rural district to the internet. This is as transformative a development as anything […]
NEO DevCon: Co-Founder Explains How Blockchain Is Developing Like The Internet – Crypto Daily
The co-founder of NEO, Da Hongfei has recently revealed that he believes the “whole world will [eventually] become digital.” The co-founder of NEO is a self-taught computer programmer who pointed out that cards never saw widespread adoption in China. Despite this, mobile payment apps like WeChatPay and AliPay are used by millions of the Chinese […]
Safety of digital platforms must amid rapid internet adoption: Ravi Shankar Prasad – Moneycontrol.com
Amid rapid digitisation and internet adoption, India must ensure that its digital platforms remain safe and have cybersecurity architecture built into their foundation, with safeguards such as involvement of security auditors, IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Friday. Prasad cited India’s growing digital clout in the global arena and its thrust on initiatives to […]