Month: January 2018

January 19, 2018 at 12:40AM from ESPN via http://espn.go.com/

Internet activists just got some unexpected good news from an unexpected source. Last summer the Federal Communications Commission floated the possibility of lowering its threshold for connections to be considered broadband. Now it’s backing away from that idea. The FCC announced Thursday that it will […]

Diversity is good for business — not just from the ethical standpoint, but from the perspective of a company’s bottom-line, according to McKinsey & Company. As a follow-up to its “Why Diversity Matters” study in 2015, McKinsey analyzed over 1,000 companies across 12 countries, looking […]

Wikipedia picture of the day on January 19, 2018: Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris), east part of Utö, Haninge Municipality, Stockholm archipelago, Sweden. In the background the Baltic Sea, with some sea smoke. http://ift.tt/2DpMyBp

Blitz della polizia contro la mafia cinese: 33 le persone arrestate perché sospettate di far parte di un'organizzazione mafiosa che agiva in Italia e in vari Paesi europei. Le misure cautelari sono scattate oltre che in Italia anche in Francia e Spagna … by Livio […]

ununennium , n : The systematic element name for the (as yet undiscovered) chemical element with an atomic number of 119 (symbol Uue).

The Wikipedia article of the day for January 19, 2018 is Sonic Spinball. Sonic Spinball is a pinball video game developed by the Sega Technical Institute and published by Sega. It was originally released for the Mega Drive/Genesis in North America and Europe in November […]

Google’s Fuchsia OS On the Pixelbook Published on January 19, 2018 at 01:03AM An anonymous reader quotes a report from 9to5Google: Our early look at Fuchsia OS last May provided a glimpse into a number of new interface paradigms. Several months later, we now have […]

In the 2018 report, Pai’s office concedes that “Mobile services are not full substitutes for fixed services — there are salient differences between the two technologies.” Beyond the obvious difference that only one of the technologies is, you know, mobile the report points out that […]

Nokia looks to be plotting big phone announcements for MWC 2018 next month, right alongside the rumored Samsung Galaxy S9 and Huawei P11. The resurrected smartphone brand, run by HMD Global, has been “super busy” planning for the Barcelona mobile conference, according to a cryptic […]