Enlarge / Jaime Santos-Menéndez, a Havana-based documentary filmmaker, has a much different workflow than creatives in the United States. (credit: Cassandra Brooklyn) As countless Cubans have proudly told me over the years, “Cubans invent.” They use creative workarounds to get by in an environment with limited access to outside resources. Glass beer bottles are sawed […]
If the Internet was a patient, its health would be so poor that it risks not only its own wellbeing but that of everyone around it. This characterization comes from the mouth of Mozilla executive director Mark Surman, who was summarizing the nonprofit’s annual Internet Health Report. The report, released on Thursday, relies on knowledge […]
Expand / / A OneWeb receiver. (charge: OneWeb) The UK has now entered the {} race to develop into a international satellite Internet supplier after taking charge of failed distance startup OneWeb together with Indian billionaire Sunil Bharti Mittal. Even the low-Earth-orbit-satellite operator emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Friday and will now find an […]
Expand / A Falcon 9 rocket establishes a Starlink assignment in January 2020. (charge: SpaceX) SpaceX yields to its launching pad at Kennedy Space Center on Monday because of its twelfth launching of usable Starlink satellites. The assignment is scheduled to lift off from Launch Complex-39A in 10:22am ET (14:22 UTC). Weather conditions will be […]