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Why the Apple Watch is being banned — and how Apple can avoid it (Vox)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 12/19/2023 - 15:13US lawmakers push DOJ to investigate Apple following Beeper shutdowns (Vox)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Mon, 12/18/2023 - 15:20Expedia wants to use AI to cut Google out of its trip-planning business (Vox)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Mon, 12/18/2023 - 14:00Twitch immediately rescinds its artistic content policy (Vox)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Fri, 12/15/2023 - 13:24Threads launches for nearly half a billion more users in Europe (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 12/14/2023 - 06:17United States Digital Service head Mina Hsiang wants Big Tech’s best minds to help fix the government (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 12/13/2023 - 06:33The old, pre-Elon Twitter was a workplace full of idealists who believed they were making the world a better place (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 12/13/2023 - 06:32The quiet plan to make the internet feel faster
There is a plan to almost eliminate latency. It’s a new internet standard called L4S that was finalized and published in January, and it could put a serious dent in the amount of time we spend waiting around for webpages or streams to load and cut down on glitches in video calls.
Homes need to be built for better internet
It turns out that the “smart homes of the future” cannot run on Wi-Fi alone thanks to the materials we’ve been using to construct our homes cheaply and quickly for decades. Over the last several years, more engineering and architecture firms have started including ethernet wiring in their building plans, but that’s as far as the digital infrastructure of a home usually goes. What’s forgotten is not only where the pre-built internet hub is placed inside the building but also what materials are used for construction.