SpaceX Wins FCC Approval To Deploy 7,518 Satellites
SpaceX won permission to deploy more than 7,000 satellites, far more than all operating spacecraft currently aloft, from U.S. regulators who also moved to reduce a growing risk from space debris as skies grow more crowded. From a report: Space Exploration Technologies has two test satellites aloft, and it earlier won permission for a separate set… Read More »
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 12:01 pmThe US Military is Making Balloons That Hover at the Edge of Space, Indefinitely
DARPA, the US military's research arm, is currently testing a wind sensor that could allow devices in its Adaptable Lighter-Than-Air (ALTA) balloon program to spot… Read More »
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 11:23 amThe Internet Has a Huge C/C++ Problem and Developers Don't Want to Deal With It
What do Heartbleed, WannaCry, and million dollar iPhone bugs have in common? From a report: One bug affects iPhones, another affects Windows, and the third affects servers running Linux. At first glance these might seem unrelated, but in reality all three were made possible because the software that was being exploited was written in programming… Read More »
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 10:40 amHow Podcasts Became a Seductive -- and Sometimes Slippery -- Mode of Storytelling
An anonymous reader shares a report: Podcasting has offered advertisers a new means of reaching demographically targeted consumers. Many podcasts feature extended endorsements, read by the host, that often include a discount code for a product or service. For listeners accustomed to a separation between advertising and editorial, the blurring of… Read More »
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 10:00 amYouTube King PewDiePie Surrenders Crown To Indian Record Label T-Series
YouTube is about to crown a new king. T-Series, one of India's largest record labels, will become the most-subscribed channel on the world's most popular video site in the next couple weeks. At the beginning of the year, the company had 30 million fans, fewer than half of the following for No. 1 PewDiePie, the Swedish video-game geek and jokester… Read More »
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 9:20 amChinese Telecoms Giant ZTE is Helping Venezuela Build a System That Monitors Citizen Behavior Through a New Identification Card
The "fatherland card," already used by the government to track voting, worries many in Venezuela and beyond. From a report: In April 2008, former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dispatched Justice Ministry officials to visit counterparts in the Chinese technology hub of Shenzhen. Their mission, according to a member of the Venezuela delegation,… Read More »
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