Newscan: Hurricane Ida takes out over half of all cell towers in its path in Louisiana

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Renaissance philosopher Sir Francis Bacon once famously opined that “knowledge is power.” It’s difficult to argue against this simple notion. Nevertheless, it does generate an important question: how is knowledge gained? The equally simple answer is that knowledge largely derives from an adequate supply of relevant information that can be parsed and contextualized to inform […]

Cell-tower-in-space connectivity provider Lynk this week announced commercial agreements with its first two mobile network operators (MNOs)—Aliv in the Bahamas and Telecel Centrafique in the Central African Republic—to let subscribers stay connected anywhere using a standard, unmodified mobile phone. Lynk CEO Charles Miller said that Lynk plans to begin providing services to Aliv and Telecel […]

Farm services provider New Cooperative recently suffered a ransomware attack that forced it to take systems offline. The attack follows months of high-level US government debate about how to address ransomware — and occurred days before US officials sanctioned the Suex cryptocurrency exchange. New Cooperative is a farmer cooperative with 60 operating locations across north, central, and […]