Broadband for America’s Future Starts with Anchors
The Federal Communications Commission adopted the ambitious National Broadband Plan in 2010, laying out a policy framework meant to end the connectivity gap over the decade.
November 2019
Want to boost your grades? Get off Facebook, researchers say (USA Today)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/11/2019 - 15:17Google plans to give slow websites a new badge of shame in Chrome (Vox)
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Google’s Secret ‘Project Nightingale’ Gathers Personal Health Data on Millions of Americans
Google is teaming with one of the country’s largest health-care systems on a secret project to collect and crunch the detailed personal health information of millions of Americans across 21 states. The initiative, code-named “Project Nightingale,” appears to be the largest in a series of efforts by Silicon Valley giants to gain access to personal health data and establish a toehold in the massive health-care industry. Google launched the effort in 2018 with Ascension, the country’s second-largest health system.