A sprawling Amazon Web Services cloud outage that began early Monday morning illustrated the fragile interdependencies of the internet as major communication, financial, health care, education, and government platforms around the world suffered disruptions. As the day wore on, AWS diagnosed and began working to correct the issue, which stemmed from the company’s critical US-EAST-1…
AT&T Users on T-Mobile Satellite: Data Signals Cross-Carrier D2D Demand New usage data shows AT&T subscribers are tapping into T-Mobile’s Starlink-powered T-Satellite more than expected, signaling a rapid shift in how carriers and customers think about direct-to-device connectivity. Early Adoption: Cross-Carrier Demand for D2D/NTN Speedtest intelligence indicates T-Mobile users account for the majority of direct-to-device…
The proliferation of difficult-to-treat bacterial diseases represents a growing threat, according to the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Antibiotic Resistance Surveillance Report. Wired: The report reveals that, between 2018 and 2023, antibiotic resistance increased by more than 40 percent in monitored pathogen-drug combinations, with an average annual increase of 5-15 percent. According to data reported…
Mint Mobile launches MINTernet: 5G home internet on T-Mobile Mint Mobile is expanding from prepaid wireless into fixed wireless access, introducing a 5G home internet offer that targets price-sensitive households and small offices with unlimited data and headline speeds up to 415 Mbps for as low as $30 per month. What Mint launched: MINTernet 5G…
Anyone who lives with pets (or people with long hair) knows how hair seems to migrate everywhere—even in places you thought you’d vacuumed already. The BISSELL PowerClean FurFinder stick vacuum is clearly built to fight that battle daily. It promises pet-and-hair-focused features: a tangle-free brush roll so you aren’t constantly snipping hair off the roller,…
Over five years ago, we introduced the concept of Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) in our NTN tutorial and wrote IEEE ComSoc article, “The Role of Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) in Future 5G Networks.” Since then, the landscape has seen remarkable transformations with advancements in standards, innovations in satellite connectivity, and progress in real-world applications. The 2024 Global…
Verizon is acquiring Starry, the ISP that delivers home internet using antennas and millimeter wave technology. The acquisition “advances” Verizon’s ability to offer high-speed internet in apartments, condominiums, and other multi-dwelling units, the company said on Wednesday. Starry made its debut in Boston in 2016, offering gigabit speeds via its unconventional approach to internet connectivity….
Talking about architecture, memes wouldn’t be the first thing that crosses your mind, right? Architecture sure is a serious business—until it isn’t. Student or professional, the life of an architect is full of workload with late-night revisions, crashing software, annoying clients, and a coffee-fueled body, but as the saying goes, it’s all part of the…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times: A lot of critical financial and government infrastructure runs on Cobol. The more-than-60-year-old mainframe coding language is embedded into payments and transaction rails, even though there are very few Cobol-literate coders available to maintain them. The big argument in favor of sticking with Cobol systems…
Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, wrote in a memo to staff on Wednesday that the company will cut about 600 jobs from its superintelligence lab, according to a report from Axios. Meta declined to comment, but told TechCrunch that Axios’ reporting is accurate. As Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and other companies race to build…