Enlarge / Greg Wyler in February 2019 when he was at OneWeb. (credit: Getty Images | Washington Post) A company led by satellite-industry veteran Greg Wyler says it plans to launch about 100,000 small communication satellites into low Earth orbit. The company, E-Space, yesterday announced that it received a $50 million investment and that it will launch...
(Black PR Wire) Washington, Carver & Du Bois, 1900 As the 19th century came to an end and segregation took ever stronger hold in the South, many African Americans saw self-improvement, especially through education, as the single greatest opportun
The tech billionaire, who has been on the board of the company formerly known as Facebook since 2005, is backing numerous politicians in the midterm elections.
The deal, which was initially valued at $40 billion, encountered regulatory scrutiny, including an F.T.C. lawsuit.
The ranks of cryptocurrency speculators have swelled, with even obscure tokens minting the newly wealthy: at least on the blockchain.
As the largest computer networks continue to grow, some engineers fear that their smallest components could prove to be an Achilles’ heel.
Shani Orgad and Rosalind Gill discuss their book, “Confidence Culture,” which challenges the idea sold to women that self-esteem will set them free.
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Ars Technica) All too often, digital ads wind up improperly targeting the most vulnerable people online, including abuse victims and kids. Add to that list the customers of several digital-medicine and genetic-testing companies, whose sites used ad-tracking tools that could have exposed information about people’s health status. In a recent...
Enlarge (credit: Microsoft) In the interest of combating ransomware and other malware, Microsoft is planning a major change in how its Office software handles macros: when files that use macros are downloaded from the Internet, those macros will now be disabled entirely by default. Current versions of the software offer an alert banner on these...
Helium, a wireless network powered by cryptocurrency, hints at the practical promise of decentralized services.