internet access
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Chinese Citizens Will Have To Scan Their Faces To Get Internet Access And New Phone Numbers
Starting December 1, Chinese citizens will have to allow telecommunications carriers to scan their faces when signing up for internet access or to get a new phone number.
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More Than Half The World Will Be Online By The End Of This Year, UN Estimates
Before we set foot into 2019, 3.9 billion people or about 51 per cent of the global population will be using the internet, according to estimates by ITU, the United Nations agency for information and communications technology.
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SpaceX’s Ambitious Internet Satellite Project Is Set To Launch This Weekend
With the inaugural launch of the super-powerful Falcon Heavy rocket now in the books, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is ready to set his sights on an ambitious project known as Starlink. On Sunday, SpaceX will launch two experimental mini-satellites – the first batch of what Musk hopes will eventually comprise a 4000-satellite constellation providing low-cost…
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Study: The Internet Has Finally Become TV
In the next five years, more than 50 per cent of the world’s population will have internet access, and 80 per cent of internet traffic will be devoted to video, says a new study by Cisco. But it’s not just billions more dinky YouTube videos that will suck up all that bandwidth. It’s our shifting…