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From emergency response to strategic planning: A Kilauea case study

When volcanoes erupt, the force of explosions and lava dramatically change the landscape, impacting the geography and the lives of those who live and work nearby. This is especially true on the southern tip of Hawaii, which is home to the world’s most active volcano, Kilauea. Responding to Kilauea’s 2018 eruptions, federal, state and local […]

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How and when you might connect your smartphone to a satellite

Today’s iPhones and Androids cannot communicate directly with satellites in space. Instead, they must connect to nearby cell towers on the ground. But that may soon change. A large range of companies – from tiny startups to some of the biggest corporations on Earth – are racing each other to connect regular smartphones directly to […]

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Waymo launches driverless rides in downtown Phoenix

Waymo has extended its fully driverless robotaxi service into downtown Phoenix. The self-driving tech company, owned by Google parent company Alphabet, has operated rides without human drivers in the Phoenix suburbs for some time. Now this new driverless venture into a busier area of the city – which is more complex in terms of potential traffic scenarios – is […]

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Newscan: Harmoni buys tower assets to create new company with 2,000 tower sites

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Harmoni buys tower assets to create new company with 2,000 tower sites FCC auction of 2.5 GHz spectrum closes, raising less than $428 million Fiascos with FAA, Ligado spur new look at receiver standards Scientists found an astonishing new material that behaves like nothing we’ve ever seen Dish […]

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Necessity indeed is the mother of invention

An adage regarding the stock market goes something like this: over any 20-year period, the market delivers a return on investment of about 10 percent, but every 20-year period—regardless of when it begins or when it ends—contains peaks and valleys that are driven by market conditions that change often, and often substantially. This adage just […]

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NASNA outlines ‘strong and urgent concerns’ about NG911 funding language in spectrum bill

Legislation before the U.S. Senate that would allocate as much as $10 billion in federal funds for next-generation 911 (NG911) deployment includes language that “will unnecessarily detract from and delay NG911 implementation,” according to a letter from the National Association of State 911 Administrators (NASNA). Under H.R. 7624—the version of the “Spectrum Innovation Act” approved […]

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2.5 GHz spectrum auction ends with just $428 million in bids

The FCC’s latest auction of midband spectrum ended after more than 70 rounds of bidding. However, the event generated winning bids of $428 million, an amount far below most analysts’ expectations. T-Mobile is expected to walk away with the bulk of the licenses up for grabs in the auction. However, the FCC has not yet […]

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Did Elon Musk just upstage Tim Cook’s big iPhone 14 surprise?

The world’s richest human being – Elon Musk, worth an estimated $265 billion – yesterday said he plans to start launching new satellites next year that can connect directly to existing mobile phones on Earth. Separately, the world’s most valuable company – Apple, with a market cap of $2.7 trillion – is widely expected to introduce a new iPhone next month that can […]

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Thousands of organizations remain at risk from zero-click IP camera bug

Some 2,300 organizations worldwide — many of them in the United States — remain at risk of major compromise via a known critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in Hikvision IP video cameras that was disclosed last year. The bug (CVE-2021-36260) is a command injection vulnerability that is present in the Web server of several Hikvision […]

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Europe working on cross-border 5G for driverless vehicles

There are an increasing number of European Union projects working on making 5G feasible to operate connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) across international and national borders. However, standardized connectivity and roaming charges remain as being among the greatest potential challenges in some markets. These issues could present themselves as being obstacles to the proper, efficient […]

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From emergency response to strategic planning: A Kilauea case study

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How and when you might connect your smartphone to a satellite

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Waymo launches driverless rides in downtown Phoenix

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Newscan: Harmoni buys tower assets to create new company with 2,000 tower sites

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Necessity indeed is the mother of invention

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NASNA outlines ‘strong and urgent concerns’ about NG911 funding language in spectrum bill

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2.5 GHz spectrum auction ends with just $428 million in bids

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Did Elon Musk just upstage Tim Cook’s big iPhone 14 surprise?

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Thousands of organizations remain at risk from zero-click IP camera bug

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Europe working on cross-border 5G for driverless vehicles

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Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority?

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