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Starlink unveils airplane service—Musk says it’s like using Internet at home
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Starlink unveils airplane service—Musk says it’s like using Internet at home

Enlarge / An airplane with a Starlink Aviation terminal installed. (credit: Starlink) Close-up view of the Starlink Aviation terminal. (credit: Starlink) SpaceX is now advertising Starlink Aviation, promising 350Mbps broadband with unlimited data for each airplane it’s installed in. “Starlink can deliver up to 350Mbps to each plane, enabling all passengers to access streaming-capable Internet...

AI is changing scientists’ understanding of language learning
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AI is changing scientists’ understanding of language learning

Enlarge / Is living in a language-rich world enough to teach a child grammatical language? (credit: kate_sept2004 via Getty) Unlike the carefully scripted dialogue found in most books and movies, the language of everyday interaction tends to be messy and incomplete, full of false starts, interruptions, and people talking over each other. From casual conversations...

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Rent going up? One company’s algorithm could be why

Enlarge (credit: Busa Photography) ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. On a summer day last year, a group of real estate tech executives gathered at a conference hall in Nashville to boast about one of their company’s signature...

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Comcast wanted $210,000 for Internet—so this man helped expand a co-op fiber ISP

Enlarge / Fiber conduits being installed for Los Altos Hills Community Fiber. (credit: Los Altos Hills Community Fiber) Sasha Zbrozek lives in Los Altos Hills, California, which he describes as “a wealthy Silicon Valley town,” in a house about five miles from Google’s headquarters. But after moving in December 2019, Zbrozek says he learned that...