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How to Make Your Phone Last Forever: 6 Simple Tips (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Thu, 12/21/2023 - 09:45Earth to the FCC: Elon Musk’s Starlink Works
It is clear that nobody at the Federal Communications Commission has used the Starlink service. We have a cabin in the woods in rural South Carolina that is in an internet desert. It gets no wired internet, no wired telephone service and weak and spotty cellphone service, with no prospect of improvement. I recently subscribed to the Starlink standard service. The equipment arrived promptly, setup was quick and easy, and the signal is rock solid, with no weather interruptions. Download speed is as fast as the wired internet service at our home in town.
How TikTok Brings War Home to Your Child (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 12/21/2023 - 06:24A Phone That Lasts a Decade? Sounds Too Good to Be True (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 12/19/2023 - 15:14102 million people eligible for Google’s lawsuit settlement
Tens of millions of U.S. consumers will get a payout as Google shells out $700 million to settle an antitrust lawsuit brought by state prosecutors over the high fees it charges app developers. Google will pay $630 million into a fund that will be divided among an estimated 102 million eligible consumers across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, according to the settlement terms for Utah et al v. Google.