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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Smartphone Startups Handle Calls With Wi-Fi to Push Service Pricing to $5 per Month

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As reported by Slashdot : two companies, Republic Wireless and FreedomPop, that reduce cellphone costs by relying on strategically place...

Clever Vehicles

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The way we go online in our cars makes no sense. As reported by MIT Technology Review : Most of us are now used to having the Internet ...
Tuesday, February 17, 2015

New Map Shows America's Quietest Places

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As reported by ScienceMag : Craving some silence? Head (quietly) toward the blue regions on the map above. Based on 1.5 million hours of...

Proposed FAA Rules Would Limit Commercial Drone Use

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As reported by the New York Times :In an attempt to bring order to increasingly chaotic skies, the Federal Aviation Administration on Su...

OpenStreetMap Gets Routing

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As reported by OpenStreetMap Blog : Good news for OpenStreetMap: the main website now has A-to-B routing (directions) built in to the h...
Friday, February 13, 2015

NoFlyZone.org Puts a Drone Geofence Around Your Home

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As reported by Geek.com : The sky is increasingly filled with drone aircraft, but what about your personal airspace? Are you doomed to...

Starting this Week, Wireless Carriers Must Unlock Your Phone

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As reported by C/NET : The days of carriers locking down devices to keep customers in place are officially dead. Starting now, all...
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