Inside House Democrats' DOGE-curious bloc
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December 2024
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration will host seven workshops for its Broadband Infrastructure Program, Connecting Minority Communities Program, Digital Equity, Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program, and Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program grantees from February to May 2025.
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration will host seven workshops for its Broadband Infrastructure Program, Connecting Minority Communities Program, Digital Equity, Enabling Middle Mile Broadband Infrastructure Program, and Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program grantees from February to May 2025.
AI is the frenemy of freedom
Two years ago, a New York company enforced an “attorney exclusion list” at its venues, including Madison Square Garden and Radio City Music Hall, sparking a civil rights clash. Using artificial intelligence-enabled facial recognition technology, MSG Entertainment identified lawyers from firms involved in litigation against the company and barred them from entering concerts, shows and ice hockey and basketball games. Naturally, being lawyers, they sued, denouncing the ban as dystopian.
Advancing the Speed of Wireless
Scientists at University College London recently achieved a speed on a wireless link of 938 Gbps. That’s over 4,000 times faster than the current average speed being delivered by T-Mobile, the current fastest cellular provider in the U.S. The team is researching techniques for multiplexing multiple radio transmissions into a coherent transmission. The scientists achieved the speeds by utilizing a huge span of spectrum between 5GHz and 150 GHz.
Senator Markey Reintroduces Legislation to Promote Network Resiliency, Energy Efficiency in Communications Networks
Sen Edward Markey (D-MA) today reintroduced the Generating Resilient and Energy Efficient Network (GREEN) Communications Act to sustainably defend communications networks against climate change and extreme weather disasters. The GREEN Communications Act would specifically:
Sens. Markey, Hirono and Rep. Adams Introduce Legislation to Promote Conservation and Preservation of Government and Historic Records
Sens Edward Markey (D-MA) and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii), and Rep Alma Adams, Ph.D. (D-NC) introduced the Public Archives Resiliency Act, which would authorize grants to promote preservation, climate resilience, adaption, and continuity of vital government records and protect other records of historical or cultural significance.
Podcast | Platforms need the news — but they’re killing it (Vox)
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Introducing ‘Fiberhoods’: untapped opportunities for broadband investments
Right now, fiber-to-the-home providers have a unique opportunity to become market leaders in small cities, large towns, and high population density rural areas where cable modem currently is the only option. We call these areas “fiberhoods” because they are neighborhoods large enough to support a privately funded fiber deployment but small enough that the incumbent cable provider is not motivated to upgrade on their own. The first company to deploy fiber to such a market typically captures the majority of customers in short order. The ideal fiberhood has: