Month: June 2022
Verizon and AT&T agree to delay airport C-Band 5G rollout until 2023
Audio player loading… Verizon and AT&T have agreed to delay some elements of their 5G rollouts around major airports in the US until July 2023, giving the aviation industry more time (opens in new tab) to address any potential risks caused by C-Band spectrum. Mid-range C-Band offer a compromise between…
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The archive saving home sewing history from the trash
Lara A. Greene keeps her antique sewing patterns in plastic tubs, stashed in the first-floor workshop of her old Victorian home so she can throw them out the window if her house goes up in flames. Greene has collected at least 10,000 patterns — possibly 20,000 — since the 1990s.…
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Nvidia RTX 4000 rumor sparks more fears over power usage
Audio player loading… Nvidia’s next-gen RTX 4090 flagship could have an eye-opening power usage, at least on the face of it according to the latest rumor – but there’s more to this than meets the eye (as well as some better news further down the RTX 4000 range). All this…
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Intel Arc A380 desktop GPU goes on sale – but you shouldn’t buy it
Audio player loading… Intel’s Arc A380 desktop graphics card has been spotted on sale over in China, in what’s an odd situation indeed – made all the more remarkable by the sky-high price. As VideoCardz (opens in new tab) reports, JD.com, a major retailer in China – which is the…
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Former Amazon employee convicted of Capital One hack
Audio player loading… An ex-Amazon Web Services (AWS) employee has been found guilty of multiple crimes in relation to one of the largest ever US data breaches. According to a CNBC report, former AWS engineer Paige Thompson was found to have used her position within the firm to hack into…
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The Morning After: Google uses Drake’s ‘Texts Go Green’ to explain RCS to Apple
Google has been trying to nudge Apple into adopting the GSMA’s RCS messaging protocol, from not-so-subtle jabs at I/O 2022 to lengthy Twitter threads from the head of Android. The latest tool from the makers of Android? Drake lyrics. The official Android Twitter account shared an “unofficial lyric explainer video”…
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