Musk: Starlink will hit 300Mbps and expand to “most of Earth” this year
Enlarge / A stack of 60 Starlink satellites launched in 2019. SpaceX Starlink broadband speeds will double to 300Mbps “later…
Diablo II Resurrected tops BlizzCon announcement flurry
Enlarge / Long rumored, finally confirmed. Blizzard Blizzard’s latest BlizzCon event sees the longtime PC game maker at perhaps its…
Apple faces development hurdles with MagSafe battery pack accessory
This is the current MagSafe charger, which is sold separately from the iPhone 12. Samuel Axon The MagSafe charger attached…
The digital divide is giving American churches hell
Enlarge Leon Neal | Getty Images For Clay Scroggins, preaching on Zoom was never part of the plan. As lead…
Nvidia wants to buy CPU designer Arm—Qualcomm is not happy about it
Enlarge / Some current Arm licensees view the proposed acquisition as highly toxic. Aurich Lawson / Nvidia In September 2020,…
State lawmakers override veto, become first in nation to tax online ads
Enlarge / None of these companies are keen to hand over a slice of their revenue to Maryland. Malik Evren…
Report: NASA’s only realistic path for humans on Mars is nuclear propulsion
Enlarge / NASA originally studied nuclear thermal propulsion in the 1960s. Here is concept art for the Nuclear Energy for…
Frontier raises sneaky “Internet Infrastructure Surcharge” from $4 to $7
Enlarge Getty Images | Peter Dazeley Frontier Communications is raising its sneaky “Internet Infrastructure Surcharge” from $4 to $7 later…
Kombucha tea is trendy, but it has also inspired new “living materials”
Enlarge / Brewing kombucha tea. Note the trademark gel-like layer of SCOBY (symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast). Olga Pankova/Getty…
Open source video player VLC will get a new UI this year with 4.0 launch
Enlarge / An orange traffic cone has long been the logo and symbol for VLC media player. News website Protocol…