Category: TECHNOLOGY
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US Government Requests Two-Week Delay for 5G Deployment, Citing Aviation Safety
U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and the chief of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) have asked AT&T and Verizon Communications to hold off on the planned January 5 launch of a new 5G wireless technology due to safety concerns in aviation. In a letter published Friday through Reuters, Buttigieg and FAA Administrator Steve Dickson asked…
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Stoggles thinks protective eyewear can be fashionable, too
Wearing sunglasses is a way to keep the sun from our eyes. However, they have always been a part of fashion. Stoggles co-founders Max Greenberg and Rahul Khatri think that the brand’s style could also be applied to protective sunglasses. They were both working at another eyewear fashion company when the pandemic struck. With the…
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The 2022 McLaren GT is a fresh take on a classic recipe
Here’s why the phrase “daily driver sports car” exists: It’s because , in general, specially-designed performance cars have an inability to be used; they’re loud and uncomfortable, and they require perfect driving conditions. Furthermore, they frequently lack the features that we’ve become accustomed to and, if they’re added, typically, they’re subpar. These may seem like…
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Are Transcontinental, Submarine Supergrids the Future of Energy?
Bloomberg Businessweek writes about “a renewed interest in cables that could connect customers in one country with power-generated loads, even thousands of miles away in another” and possibly even transcontinental submarine Energy superhighways: Coal, fuel, or even nuclear vegetation may be constructed near the markets they serve, but the utility-scale solar and wind farms that…
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The Problems of Touchscreens In the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is the most crammed-with-digital-tech fighter jet in history, the result of a multi-decade, trillion-greenback layout procedure that has been famously messy. But the jet is out there, and pilots are flying it. One huge layout shift with the F-35 is that it gets rid of some of the small bodily…
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The Thinking Behind the 32GB Windows Format Limit On FAT32
The reason why the Windows UI has a 32GB restriction on the formatting of FAT32 volumes is due to the fact that retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer “stated so.” The confession comes “inside the trend of a sequence of anecdotes hosted on his YouTube channel, Dave’s Garage,” reviews The Register. From the report: In the…
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Torvalds: GPLv2 ‘A Big Part’ of Why Linux Spread, Companies Getting Involved ‘Hugely Important’
Five years ago, Linus Torvalds celebrated Linux’s 25th anniversary during an interview with ZDNet’s Steven Vaughan-Nichols. In the present, as Linux has celebrated its thirty-year anniversary Vaughan-Nichols interviewed Torvalds a second time and made a crucial philosophy-based point: Looking at the larger picture, Torvalds is now of the opinion that the time that began in…
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25 Gigabit Per Second Fiber Retail Broadband Service Demoed in New Zealand
25 Gigabit Per Second Fiber Retail Broadband Service: 25 gigabits of data per second, both uploading and downloading. CRN states that the wholesaler of broadband infrastructure, Chorus, showed these speeds in comparison to their current PON, a passive optical fibre network. The company has a passive optical fibre network [PON]. The test in Auckland attained…
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Best Virtual Reality Headset For Xbox One
Updated on May 10, 2022 Updated links for the Best Virtual Reality Headset for Xbox One. Are you looking for the best Virtual Reality headset for Xbox One? Your search is over here. Virtual Reality is a computer-generated simulation of a 3D artificial environment generated by computers. Virtual Reality headsets allow for a truly immersive…
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Programming in Rust is Fun – But Challenging, Finds Annual Community Survey
Participants in this year’s survey from the Rust community noticed an increase in their usage on a weekly basis and also issues, writes InfoWorld: Of those who were surveyed using Rust, 81% used the language at least every week, as opposed to 72% who participated in the last survey. Of all Rust users, 75% of…