As first reported by Axios, trade groups representing some of the largest telecom companies, including AT&T and Verizon, are suing New York over a new state law forcing them to provide cheaper broadband plans for low-income families in the state. Earlier this month, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a bill that would require internet service […]
The pandemic is taking a heavy toll around around the world as we’ve seen in India in the last several days. One power couple is helping out in a significant way. Jen Rubio, the CEO of Away, and her husband, Stewart Butterfield, the founder of Slack, are helping make COVID-19 vaccines accessible to everyone. Amid […]
As the high-profile disputes about what content you can play on your iPhone rage on between Apple, Epic Games, Google, and Microsoft, a company called Backbone is focusing instead on making sure you get the most out of the games that are currently available. Like Razer did with its Kishi controller for iOS, and as […]
Twitter is adding a new prompt to users’ timelines to help promote the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination effort, providing users around the world with the “latest vaccine info” in their particular country. The new notice appears as a massive unmissable box at the top of users’ Twitter feeds on the iOS and Android apps, prompting users […]
Fitbit may be ready to launch a new fitness tracker soon, if images published by WinFuture are to be believed. The new tracker is apparently named Luxe and features a more fashion-centric design than Fitbit’s existing Inspire 2. It’s not clear when the Luxe will be released or how much it will cost, but I would not be surprised […]
NASA confirmed on Monday the historic first flight of a powered aircraft on another planet, the Mars helicopter Ingenuity. Engineers cheered and clapped during a live broadcast as data confirming the flight arrived from the distant planet to the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The helicopter performed “spinup, takeoff, climb, hover, landing […]
NASA picked Elon Musk’s SpaceX to receive $2.9 billion to build a lunar lander as part of the Artemis mission to send humans to the Moon by 2024, the agency announced on Friday. It’s a major vote of confidence in SpaceX from NASA — as no other company received money. The contract between NASA and […]
Apple has officially announced its “Spring Loaded” tech hardware event for April 20th, its first major product announcement of 2021. Unlike a lot of Apple’s events, its spring events tend to be a bit more scattershot: one year might see high-end iPads, another a more education-focused event, or a launch of a comprehensive service strategy. This year, rumors are pointing […]
Acting NASA administrator Steve Jurczyk said Friday that under President Biden’s budget request, the agency’s Artemis mission has a new goal: in addition to landing the first woman on the Moon, it will also send the first person of color to the lunar surface. So far, the only Earthlings to touch the Moon’s surface have […]
Google has officially announced a new Pixel phone, the Pixel 5A 5G. It’s done so in the same way it has announced a lot of recent Pixel phones: by reacting to a rumor. This time is a little less fun than usual, though, because the rumor in question is that the phone had been canceled […]