AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile formed a company on Oct. 1 to pool some of their airwaves so ordinary phones can reach satellites beyond tower range. Analysts read it as a defense against SpaceX, while a driver who loses signal on a back road this week has the same options as before.
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Disney, ABC and eight owned stations sued the FCC and Brendan Carr in Washington, asking a judge to stop an early license review before it becomes a hearing.
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The sprint number came from a company video of a three-month-old prototype. The listing is the durable fact: the first general-purpose robotics company on mainland China's market.
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The orbital compute startup added an extension to its Series A largely to buy launch capacity before Falcon 9 retires in 2028, according to CEO Philip Johnston.
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The commission's notice asks for outcome metrics instead of compliance filings, including a count of wrongly blocked calls, while insisting it creates no new requirements and naming no data set that holds that number.
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Sens. Mark Warner and Ted Cruz filed a bill giving NTIA 18 months to write voluntary telecom security practices, with an optional third-party certification. Adopting them stays each carrier's choice, nearly a year after the mandatory post-breach rules were scrapped.
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Google flies one server's worth of TPUs on 1 kilowatt of solar power on Oct. 1, its first hardware test for orbital AI data centers. The flight tests chip survival and cooling while SpaceX's and Blue Origin's far larger constellations still wait on FCC review.
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Judge Timothy Kelly, whom Trump appointed, sounded unconvinced by the national-security case for keeping CNN, MS NOW and Politico off the grounds, and said he would rule as soon as possible. The exclusion is about a week old.
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Trump posted the ban on Friday, and by Saturday morning CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters were being turned away from the White House grounds. Politico says the Secret Service kept its reporter's pass.
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The Shenzhen camera maker booked about $298.4m of memory procurement in the first half and stayed profitable by a hair. GoPro cited memory rises of 80 to 115 percent, cut 23 percent of staff and agreed to be bought.
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Asus is the biggest name so far through the Conditional Approval process that the Defense and Homeland Security departments run. Applicants hand over a component-level supply chain report and a time-bound plan to build the router in the US.
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Paramount says the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar will take its indirect foreign ownership to 49.5 percent. The FCC approved that. The purchase of Warner Bros. Discovery still waits on a March antitrust trial.
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In the same reporting area the FCC listed seven sites down from physical damage. That split tells product teams what an emergency mode is actually up against, and StellarLight's founder says energy independence is the harder half.
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Reflect Orbital won an FCC grant in July for a test satellite meant to reflect sunlight onto the night side of Earth. The review that cleared it covered spectrum. How much light lands on the ground fell outside it.
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An August 26 emergency order gives the Energy Department 120 days to define risk-based review of foreign transformers, inverters and their software. The hardware takes far longer to arrive.
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In CBRS at 3.5 GHz, Navy radar outranks paying licensees, who outrank everybody else, and a central computer system decides in real time who moves. A device shipping into that band has to obey without a person in the loop.
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Asus and Comtrend won the same conditional approval for their routers, but theirs expires on March 6, 2028. Buyers now have to check which series and which date cover the box they are ordering.
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IEEE Spectrum reports the ALOHAnet codeveloper died on 14 April at 91. The 1971 network let computers on separate Hawaiian islands transmit on one shared UHF channel with no central coordinator.
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AT&T Business will sell Amazon's Leo capacity through contracts its customers already hold, which settles who owns the ticket queue well before anyone can quote a price for the satellite layer itself.
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Three FCC filings add 18 antennas across Florida, Minnesota and Texas, about one percent of the more than 300 ground stations Amazon says its 3,232-satellite constellation needs, and the pace of that queue is what a buyer is really buying.
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- Banned, in stock, four-day shipping: DJI's blocked cameras arrive from Oregon
Product · August 20, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Invest · August 19, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Libraries push back on an E-Rate review that would hand pricing back to regional monopolies
Product · August 19, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Build · August 18, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Invest · August 17, 2026 · 1 publisher
- Orbital mirrors, priced in photons: magnitude -16.7 in the beam, dusk out to 34 km
Science · August 17, 2026 · 1 publisher
- The binding constraint on U.S. robotics is now the bill of materials, not the model
Product · August 17, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Product · August 16, 2026 · 1 publisher
- A million satellites on paper: read the filings, not Musk's 2029 deadline
Invest · August 15, 2026 · 1 publisher
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Product · August 15, 2026 · 1 publisher
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