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Apple replaces iTunes on Mac with three separate apps (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 06/04/2019 - 06:35The Chinese and non-Chinese internet are two worlds. Here’s what it’s like to use both (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 06/03/2019 - 06:27Meet Daniel Dale, the man with the Herculean job of keeping track of Trump’s lies (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 05/30/2019 - 11:57CNN's Jeff Zucker may be at war with President Trump, but the new bosses at AT&T don’t mind (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 05/29/2019 - 08:45A doctored video of Nancy Pelosi shows social media giants ill-prepared for 2020 (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 05/27/2019 - 20:15In policy switch, pay-TV providers Spectrum and AT&T say if you cancel early, they’re keeping your cash (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 05/23/2019 - 12:05
Trump’s fight with Huawei could threaten internet access in rural areas
In swaths of rural America, along roads where there are just a few farms or homes within a mile-long stretch, customers are so few that the likes of AT&T and T-Mobile don’t bother to build cell towers for coverage.
Jon Healey: T-Mobile and Sprint finally found FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s price (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 05/21/2019 - 06:34Here’s why your internet may be delivered by a drone someday soon
SpaceX’s plans are set to jump forward May 16 with a launch of 60 internet-beaming satellites. But don’t count out solar-powered, high-altitude drones — or giant balloons. Advances in solar-cell and battery technology have made those technologies more feasible. In April, Japanese telecommunications giant SoftBank said it would partner with Simi Valley drone maker AeroVironment Inc to build a drone capable of flying to the stratosphere, hovering around an area for months and serving as a floating cell tower to beam internet to users on Earth.