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Rancho Palos Verdes City Council discusses cell service challenges
2+ hour, 3+ min ago (542+ words) That's why the Rancho Palos Verdes City Council this week discussed potential ways to boost wireless telecommunications with providers like AT&T and Verizon, and to "help expedite or streamline the process, to encourage and incentivize carriers to install wireless…...
Social media ‘addicting the brains of children,’ plaintiff’s lawyer argues in landmark trial
1+ week, 1+ day ago (702+ words) By KAITLYN HUAMANI and BARBARA ORTUTAY, Associated Press Technology Writers Instagram's parent company Meta and Google's YouTube face claims that their platforms addict children through deliberate design choices that keep kids glued to their screens. TikTok and Snap, which were…...
Apps to boycott US goods gained traction in crisis over Greenland
1+ week, 2+ day ago (765+ words) The creator of the "Made O'Meter" app, Ian Rosenfeldt, said he saw around 30,000 downloads of the free app in just three days at the height of the trans-Atlantic diplomatic crisis in late January out of more than 100,000 since it was…...
TikTok faces app deletions, censorship claims and glitches in days after its ownership change
3+ week, 1+ day ago (444+ words) By BARBARA ORTUTAY, AP Technology Writer Censorship claims, technical problems and a report of a surge in app deletions are just some of the challenges TikTok is facing as it adjusts to a'new ownership structure in the United States'that was…...
Letter: Golden State Fiber is no boondoggle
3+ week, 4+ day ago (178+ words) Johnny Kampis" op-ed casts open-access municipal broadband in a negative light while implicitly defending a telecom monopoly model that has failed rural Californians. Johnny Kampis" op-ed casts open-access municipal broadband in a negative light while implicitly defending a telecom monopoly…...
California’s government broadband gamble will cost taxpayers
4+ week, 17+ hour ago (253+ words) Golden State Fiber is the latest example of California governments gambling with taxpayer money: forty counties, $111 million in bond financing, and a government-run broadband network. History suggests this bet will end the same way most do'over budget, underperforming, and on…...
Trump Mobile’s golden phone remains nowhere to be found
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (408+ words) By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, Associated Press Technology Writer A golden phone that President Donald Trump's family business promised to release last year remains mysteriously under wraps as the technology industry serves up a glut of new gadgets at CES in Las…...
Spectrum offers $25,000 reward for information after cables cut in Jurupa Valley
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (358+ words) Thieves " possibly hunting for copper to recycle for illicit profit " damaged Spectrum fiber optic cables in western Riverside County on Saturday, Jan. 3, briefly cutting service to some customers of the company's television, internet and phone services. Spectrum, which on Dec....
‘The past gives comfort’: Finding refuge on analog islands amid deepening digital seas
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1161+ words) By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, Associated Press As technology distracts, polarizes and automates, people are still finding refuge on analog islands in the digital sea. The holdouts span the generation gaps, uniting elderly and middle-aged enclaves born in the pre-internet times with…...
South Africa eases affirmative action regulations on Starlink and others that Musk said were racist
2+ mon, 6+ day ago (198+ words) The policy change published in a government gazette allows foreign companies seeking licenses to operate in South Africa's communications sector to instead invest in "equity equivalent" programs to meet affirmative action criteria, like skills training or other means of supporting…...