Month: September 2023
Bad news – your superfast gigabit fiber network is no match for… a pigeon with a flash drive attached to it?
Although we stopped using carrier pigeons close to 100 years ago, one YouTuber has found these birds are faster at transferring 3TB of data – at distances of up to 500 miles – than today’s gigabit broadband connections. Jeff Geerling, who runs a popular YouTube channel, attached three full 1TB…
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Airline fears around 5G may finally be over
The concern that 5G signals could cause massive flight delays appears to finally be over now that Delta has upgraded its airplanes to avoid interference. Reuters reported the airline has finished updating the radio altimeters in its currently in-service fleet. Other aircraft out for planned maintenance will also be outfitted…
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Google raises Nest Aware subscription prices up to $30 per year
Google is increasing the price of its Nest Aware and Nest Aware Plus subscriptions, which are required to get more than a few hours of footage history from Nest security cameras. Nest Aware prices have increased to $8 a month or $80 per year, up from $6/month or $60/year, as…
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Gizmodo’s owner shuts down Spanish language site in favor of AI translations
Gizmodo owner G/O Media shut down and laid off editors of its Spanish-language site Gizmodo en Español and is now using AI to translate articles. Matías S. Zavia, a writer at Gizmodo en Español, posted that the publication was shut down on August 29th and that it would now publish…
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What goes into designing a solar-powered Bluetooth speaker
After releasing two solar-powered pairs of headphones, you would have thought that it’d be simple for Urbanista to apply the same technology to a Bluetooth speaker. But with the Malibu, which is being shown off at IFA in Berlin ahead of its release later this month, Urbanista says it had…
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Meta may offer paid ad-free Facebook and Instagram in Europe
Meta could let users pay for Facebook and Instagram to avoid ads in their feeds, at least in Europe. The New York Times reports that Meta is considering a paid subscription to its social media products, an attempt by Meta to quell concerns by the EU around data privacy and…
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