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Mediacom Xtreme Connect is available to households enrolled in the SNAP and Medicaid programs, as well as others.
Operators hope AI will make networks more energy efficient, but consumption by AI data centers could massively outweigh those benefits.
A researcher who just resigned from ChatGPT developer OpenAI is accusing the company of not devoting enough resources to ensure that artificial intelligence can be safely controlled. "These problems are quite hard to get right, and I am concerned we aren't on a trajectory to get there," ex-OpenAI researcher Jan Leike claimed in a tweet on Friday.
Investors are interested in buying TikTok so that it can avoid a US ban. But even if ByteDance accepts, a takeover will be far from simple.
Gogo, which sells Internet services to airplane passengers, initially hoped to begin offering 5G in 2021. Now the company is warning that the launch might not happen until 2025.
We know that a 100% clean energy requires more electricity transmission lines. Now, the federal government has taken sweeping action to modernize and build out the grid.
May 13 (Reuters) - SpaceX is building launch facilities, office buildings and even a shopping center in rural Texas, as billionaire Elon Musk's space venture rapidly expands its rocket and satellite business across the Lone Star state. But a Reuters review of Texas property records shows that SpaceX and its contractors can be far slower to pay builders and suppliers than they are to break ground. Unpaid bills and finger-pointing among contractors, Reuters found, have led many construction-industry businesses to file liens against SpaceX properties in efforts to get compensated.
America’s energy system has a problem: Solar and wind developers want to build renewable energy at a breakneck pace — and historic climate legislation has fueled their charge with financial incentives worth billions of dollars. But too often the power that these projects can produce has nowhere to go. That’s because the high-voltage lines that move energy across the country don’t have the capacity to handle what these panels and turbines generate. At the same time, electric vehicles, data centers, and new factories are pushing electricity demand well beyond what was expected just a few years ago. As a result, the U.S. is poised to generate more energy — and, crucially, more carbon-free energy — than ever before, but the nation’s patchwork system of electrical grids doesn’t have enough transmission infrastructure to deliver all that renewable energy to the homes and businesses that could use it. Indeed, this transmission gap could negate up to half of the climate benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act, according to one analysis.
WASHINGTON, May 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department and TikTok on Friday asked a U.S. appeals court to set a fast-track schedule to consider the legal challenges to a new law requiring China-based ByteDance to divest TikTok's U.S. assets by Jan. 19 or face a ban. TikTok, ByteDance and a group of TikTok content creators joined with the Justice Department in asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to rule by Dec. 6 to be able to seek review from the Supreme Court if needed before the U.S. deadline.
The entire OpenAI team focused on the existential dangers of AI has either resigned or been absorbed into other research groups, WIRED has confirmed.
Tech companies are scrambling to offer satellite cell service for ordinary phones.
What good is AI if you don't have a planet to use it on? Microsoft released its 2024 Sustainability Report on Wednesday, and it's mostly bad news. Last year, Microsoft's emissions went up 29%, and it used 23% more water, primarily due to "new technologies, including generative AI."
Six years since the founding of the O-RAN Alliance, the original concept has barely made an impression on the global market.
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$100 billion in U.S. | Industry leaders warn of a middle-mile gap that will stand in the way of rural broadband access, despite massive investments.
In an astonishing move, Google cut a check to the U.S. government over an antitrust case, in the hopes of avoiding a jury trial. And it argues such jury trials are unconstitutional.
On Friday, following the departure of several high-profile OpenAI employees, a Vox story revealed that OpenAI employees are required to sign a restrictive off-boarding agreement. Now, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says some part of the agreement should have never happened and it’s "one of the few times I’ve been genuinely embarrassed running OpenAI." The agreement includes both nondisclosure and non-disparagement provisions that forbid departing employees from criticizing OpenAI for life; they can't even say they signed an NDA. Not signing the agreement or breaking it means former employee lose all their vested equity in the company.
Google is rethinking its most iconic and lucrative product by adding new AI features to search. One expert tells WIRED it’s “a change in the world order.”
5G private networks are helping industrial customers make big productivity and cost savings gains, a new report finds.
FREDERICKSBURG, Virginia, May 13 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen underscored the importance of investing in rural areas during a visit to Fredericksburg, Virginia on Monday to tour a broadband infrastructure project funded by the $1.9 trillion COVID-era American Rescue Plan. Yellen toured a recently completed Comcast (CMCSA.O), opens new tab high-speed internet installation site in Stafford County, where nearly 700 homes have secured broadband services as a result of funds from President Joe Biden's ARP legislation and its $10 billion Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund (CPF).
Loaded with ever more renewables, the grid will need to store a whole lot of energy. Enter: a new kind of magic school bus—one that can both charge and give power back.
KSTP 5 reports... The new labels show the provider’s name, the plan’s name and the base monthly price for internet service, along with any additional one-time or recurring fees — like installation charges, modem rental fees and other equipment-related fees, which must be separated from the base price. The new labels are mandated by the…
Twitter is fully X.com now. Given its transformation since Elon Musk bought it, that may be a small mercy.
Plus: Three arrested in North Korean IT workers fraud ring, Tesla staffers shared videos from owners’ cars, and more.
BRUSSELS, May 16 (Reuters) - Meta Platforms' (META.O), opens new tab social media sites Facebook and Instagram will be investigated for potential breaches of EU online content rules relating to child safety, EU regulators said on Thursday, a move that could lead to hefty fines. Tech companies are required to do more to tackle illegal and harmful content on their platforms under the European Union's landmark Digital Services Act (DSA), which kicked in last year.
SpaceX's Starlink is introducing a major price increase to its global roaming plan, which allows users to access the satellite internet service worldwide. On Thursday night, several Starlink "Mobile - Global" plan subscribers received an email from SpaceX notifying them about the price increase. The company previously charged US users $200 per month for the service, but now the price is doubling to $400 per month.
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