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‘Are You Dead?’ tops China’s paid app list
1+ hour, 52+ min ago (153+ words) The growing number of people who live alone in China have embraced the tool as an effective way to check in with loved ones. "Are You Dead?" tops China"s paid app list China"s new No. 1 paid app poses…...
Reddit sues Australia over social media ban for children
1+ mon, 11+ hour ago (147+ words) Canberra enacted the world's first social media age limit this week, blocking all under-16s' accounts. Reddit sues Australia over social media ban for children Reddit sued Australia's government over the country's social media ban. Canberra enacted the world's first social…...
Major Amazon Web Services internet outage affects hundreds of websites, companies
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (128+ words) A major outage at Amazon Web Services brought down much of the internet Monday, with major airlines, social media sites, and banks among those affected, as well as Amazon's own website. The problem stemmed from "Domain Name System" resolution errors,…...
DR Congo backs $400M satellite deal to tackle digital deficit
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (255+ words) DR Congo is betting on satellite internet to address one of the world's worst connectivity deficits, with only one in three Congolese connected to mobile internet. Starlink, which received regulatory approval to operate in DR Congo in May, is generally…...
Musk’s $19 billion spectrum deal turns heat up on telecom companies
4+ mon, 4+ day ago (218+ words) Elon Musk's Starlink struck a $19 billion deal Monday for EchoStar's spectrum licenses, edging out T-Mobile and positioning it as a potential competitor to the big three wireless carriers. Musk's deal came as a surprise to some industry observers, even after…...
Red Sea cables damage slows internet in Asia
4+ mon, 4+ day ago (275+ words) The Red Sea, responsible for 90% of Europe and Asia digital communications, has been the site of critical infrastructure attacks by the Houthis in Yemen. Red Sea cables damage slows internet in Asia Damage to two major undersea cables off the…...
How Starlink is stitching together a pan-African strategy in small bytes
7+ mon, 3+ week ago (524+ words) By the time Starlink, the satellite internet provider owned by billionaire Elon Musk's Space X, bumped up its monthly subscription prices in Nigeria by nearly 50% last week, most observers had been expecting the hike. Nigeria's regulators blocked Starlink's first attempt…...
TikTok users allege censorship, altered algorithms after Trump saved platform
11+ mon, 3+ week ago (171+ words) The company says there has been no change, but content creators claim they aren't seeing the kinds of videos that would typically be suggested to them. TikTok users allege censorship, altered algorithms after Trump saved platform After a 12-hour hiatus,…...