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"In at least five of the 16 African countries where the service is available, a monthly Starlink subscription is cheaper than the leading fixed internet service provider," reports Rest of World.
"Starlink, launched in 2019 by Elon Musk's SpaceX, has become the leading satellite internet provider in the world."
Now available in more than 100 countries, Starlink can also be a relatively affordable option for users trying to log on in countries with limited internet service providers... A Rest of World analys
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AI training data market to grow enormously. Despite current US dominance, the APAC is predicted to be the biggest market. Companies look further afield for better-quality data. The snappily-titled AI Training Dataset Market by Dataset Creation (Data Collection, Data Annotation, Synthetic Data Generation), Dataset Selling (Off-the-Shelf Datasets, Dataset Marketplaces), Data Modality (Text, Image, Video, Audio,... Read more » Read more ›
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It's all but confirmed that Samsung will be releasing not three, but four Galaxy S25 smartphones at the first Unpacked event of this year. Samsung will add a "Galaxy S25 Slim", which should fit somewhere between the S25+ and the S25 Ultra in terms of price, at least. Slim design, as the name suggests Unlike the rest of the Galaxy S25 family members, the S25 Slim hasn't leaked in images.... Read more ›
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Those who aren't deployed will be stationed at the US Digital Service, a White House branch that provides IT consulting services to federal agencies. Read more ›
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He's 70 and thinks he would've had to continue working if he'd stayed in the US. Some older Americans are still punching the clock because they can't afford to retire. Read more ›
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The Flash's big solo movie clearly wanted people to watch it, which they didn't. Muschietti thinks it should've tried harder. Read more ›
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As BioWare charts Mass Effect's future, the former Commander Shepard thinks its OG cast deserves a TV spotlight. Read more ›
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A Dutch pension fund sold its entire stake in Tesla over disapproval of CEO Elon Musk's pay package and working conditions at the company. Read more ›
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Blue Origin's New Glenn spacecraft will make its maiden flight on Monday. It's the company's first rocket designed to reach orbit. Read more ›
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The Flash director Andy Muschietti believes he knows exactly why the DC film failed so spectacularly. Read more ›
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The Meta CEO is remaking himself — and his company — in the image of Donald Trump. Read more ›
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Long live Resident Evil 4, the game that changed its own franchise, the survival-horror genre, and all of gaming. Read more ›
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Microsoft Outlook is an email platform featuring calendars, contacts, file-sharing, and more. Microsoft folded MSN and Hotmail into Outlook years ago. Read more ›
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A third-generation Apple Watch SE will be released later this year, and it will have a "new look" of some kind, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In his Power On newsletter today, Gurman mentioned the redesigned Apple Watch SE as one of many new products that Apple plans to launch in 2025, but he did not share any specific design details at this particular time. In September, Gurman said the... Read more ›
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The flora had previously concealed vast fortification walls and stone structures beyond an inner fortress. Read more ›
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As a "special government employee," Musk would be subject to less stringent conflict of interest standards than regular federal workers. Read more ›
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The Palisades Fire has burned through more than 23,000 acres and is 11% contained as of Sunday, according to Cal Fire. Read more ›
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Four and a half years after it was announced, EA's free-to-play skate sim, Skate, is finally ready for playtesting on consoles. Read more Read more ›
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The next Captain America outing has gone through "a lot" of rewrites and reshoots, and more publicly than usual. Read more ›
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Asking teachers to adopt new tools without removing old requirements is a recipe for burnout. Read more ›
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Microsoft plans to invest $3 billion to expand its artificial intelligence and cloud Azure services in India, turning to the world's most populous nation to fuel its revenue growth engine. From a report: The firm, which has been operating in India for more than two decades, will also train an additional 10 million people in the country with AI, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said at an event in Bengaluru Tuesday.... Read more ›
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Scientists have discovered that quarks and gluons inside protons are quantum entangled, challenging traditional views of proton structure and revealing a more complex, dynamic system influenced by strong interactions. Space.com reports: Entanglement is the aspect of quantum physics that says two affected particles can instantaneously influence each other's "state" no matter how widely separated they are -- even if they are on opposite sides of the universe. Albert Einstein founded... Read more ›
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OpenAI has shut down the developer behind a viral device that could respond to ChatGPT queries to aim and fire an automated rifle. Futurism reports: The contraption, as seen in a video that's been making its rounds on social media, sparked a frenzied debate over our undying attempts to turn dystopian tech yanked straight out of the "Terminator" franchise into a reality. STS 3D's invention also apparently caught the attention... Read more ›
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VLC media player, the popular open-source software developed by nonprofit VideoLAN, has topped 6 billion downloads worldwide and teased an AI-powered subtitle system. From a report: The new feature automatically generates real-time subtitles -- which can then also be translated in many languages -- for any video using open-source AI models that run locally on users' devices, eliminating the need for internet connectivity or cloud services, VideoLAN demoed at CES.... Read more ›
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Microsoft is pushing users to upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 ahead of the operating system's end of support in October 2025. The company's consumer chief marketing officer Yusuf Mehdi declared 2025 "the year of the Windows 11 PC refresh," positioning PC upgrades as more crucial than TV or phone purchases. The Verge adds: Mehdi believes that "Windows 11 is available at a time when the world needs it... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa has said Meta's decision to end factchecking on its platforms and remove restrictions on certain topics means "extremely dangerous times" lie ahead for journalism, democracy and social media users. The American-Filipino journalist said Mark Zuckerberg's move to relax content moderation on the Facebook and Instagram platforms would lead to a "world without facts" and... Read more ›
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticized Apple's innovation record and business practices in a Joe Rogan podcast interview on January 10, claiming the iPhone maker has not "invented anything great in a while" and is "just sitting" on its flagship product 20 years after Steve Jobs created it. Zuckerberg accused Apple of using arbitrary App Store rules and 30% developer fees to offset declining iPhone sales. He also said Apple blocks... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader shares a report: The six biggest banks in the US have all quit the global banking industry's net zero target-setting group, with the imminent inauguration of Donald Trump as president expected to bring political backlash against climate action. JP Morgan is the latest to withdraw from the UN-sponsored net zero banking alliance (NZBA), following Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs. All six... Read more ›
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BleepingComputer's Sergiu Gatlan reports: "Today, the White House announced the launch of the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark, a new cybersecurity safety label for internet-connected consumer devices. The Cyber Trust Mark label, which will appear on smart products sold in the United States later this year, will help American consumers determine whether the devices they want to buy are safe to install in their homes. It's designed for consumer smart devices,... Read more ›
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"What if they ban TikTok and people keep using it anyway?" asks the New York Times, saying a pending ban in America "is vague on how it would be enforced" Some experts say that even if TikTok is actually banned this month or soon, there may be so many legal and technical loopholes that millions of Americans could find ways to keep TikTok'ing. The law is "Swiss cheese with lots... Read more ›
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