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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey gives $10 million to Boston University's Center for Antiracist Research (USAToday)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 08/20/2020 - 15:205G networks are not shining. But with new phones from Samsung and Apple, could 2020 be 5G's year? (USAToday)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 08/17/2020 - 12:34After years of hype, 5G making progress in the US
AT&T announced that it had achieved nationwide coverage for its 5G network, joining T-Mobile, who reached that important goal Dec 2019. AT&T announced about a month ago that they have turned on a technology called DSS (Dynamic Spectrum Sharing), which allows 4G and 5G phones to use the same frequencies.
Video: Here's why access to the internet is not created equal, how COVID-19 made it worse (USAToday)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 07/27/2020 - 16:46Apple expands coding partnership with Black schools as tech firms grapple with lack of diversity (USAToday)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 07/16/2020 - 11:21Race and class divide: Black and Hispanic service workers are tech's growing underclass
A new and growing underclass is working inside some of the world's wealthiest companies. They push mops and clean toilets. They cook and serve gourmet lunches. They patrol suburban office parks. They ferry technology workers to and from their jobs in luxury shuttle buses. But they are not on the payroll at Apple, Facebook or Google, companies famous for showering their workers with six-figure salaries, stock options and perks. Instead they are employed by outside contractors. And they say the bounty from the technology boom is not trickling down to them.