Have you ever imagined your smart phone or tablet without a touch screen? This could soon be the case if we run out of indium, one of the rarest minerals on Earth. Indium is used…
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam proposed the state use $700 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds to achieve universal broadband by 2024. The proposal, which would need to pass both chambers of the General Assembly, would…
Digital sports books are serious about disrupting Florida’s gambling laws by sponsoring a 2022 ballot measure to legalize sports betting – $20 million upfront serious. According to the state’s Division of Elections (DOE), the newly-formed…
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita said he is joining the attorneys general from three dozen other states in a federal lawsuit against Google, claiming the tech giant uses monopolistic practices to prevent competition. “An investigation…
On July 8, 2011, the space shuttle Atlantis took off from Cape Canaveral with a six-member crew and returned on July 21. It was the 135th and final mission of the U.S. space shuttle program…
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser is partnering with 36 other states and the District of Columbia in an antitrust lawsuit against internet giant Google. The lawsuit was filed this week in a California federal court and…
Critics of recent federal legislation pushing broadband deployment worry that a component of the bill dealing with mapping data will result in a patchwork approach to determining which areas of the country lack sufficient high-speed…
Michigan lawmakers passed laws in the past two years to eliminate red tape and limit government reach. The legislators established rules to ensure federal broadband money goes to private providers expanding in unserved areas while…
When did the idea of UFOs first emerge? The idea of aliens and that other worlds might be inhabited actually goes back to ancient times. The question was a matter of real debate among philosophers,…
Failure of a machine in a factory can shut it down. Lost production can cost millions of dollars per day. Component failures can devastate factories, power plants and battlefield equipment. To return to operation, skilled…