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Somehow 5G Paranoia Is Only Getting Dumber

December 4, 2020

We’ve made it repeatedly clear that 5G now exists in some kind of alternate reality, untethered from this complicated mortal plane. One one side, you’ve got telecom giants, hardware vendors, and some politicians busy pretending that 5G is a revolutionary game changer, something you just sprinkle around to create near Utopian smart cities, smart vehicles, and miracle cancer cures. On the other side

An Innovative Framework That Will Help the IoT Industry Scale Into the Billions

December 2, 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) is on an explosive growth trajectory. According to Transforma Insights, the number of IoT-connected devices is projected to increase to 24.1 billion worldwide by 2030. That’s almost a three-fold increase from 2019. Much of this growth will be fueled by the coming 5G revolution, which will enable businesses and consumers to take advantage of a wide range of increasing

Docker support deprecated in Kubernetes will break your clusters says CNCF ambassador Its only the runtime says Docker

November 29, 2020

Admins have until late 2021 to move away, but Windows containers need caution “Docker support is being deprecated in Kubernetes. You need to pay attention to this and plan for it. THIS WILL BREAK YOUR CLUSTERS,” said CNCF Ambassador Ian Coldwater on Twitter.…

Section 230 is Good Actually

November 22, 2020

Even though it’s only 26 words long, Section 230 doesn’t say what many think it does. So we’ve decided to take up a few kilobytes of the Internet to explain what, exactly, people are getting wrong about the primary law that defends the Internet. Section 230 (47 U.S.C. § 230) is one of the most important laws protecting free speech online. While its wording is fairly clear—it states that “No provi

Discovery home of Shark Week HGTV and Food Network enters the streaming wars with Discovery Plus

November 17, 2020

Discovery, home to HGTV, Food Network, and Discovery Channel’s annual Shark Week, is entering the streaming space with Discovery Plus. Discovery Plus will start at $4.99 with an ad-supported tier, along with a $6.99 ad-free option. CNBC first reported the news. The streaming service will launch on January 4th, 2021. The company aims to bring the service to more than 25 countries around the world

A Look at the Big Guys - Putting the Telecom Sector Into Perspective

November 4, 2020

You can’t put the telecom sector into perspective without looking at the performance of the biggest players in the industry. The pandemic has been an interesting year for both big ISPs and telecom vendors. Smaller ISPs should care about big ISP performance for many reasons. For many smaller companies, the big companies are the competition, and the big providers' strength or weakness can foretell s

Here are the best Amazon devices worth buying on Cyber Monday

October 28, 2020

It’s always advisable to wait until the holiday shopping season to buy Amazon devices. Aside from Amazon Prime Day, this is when Echo speakers, Fire tablets, Kindles and the like are almost guaranteed to hit all-time-low prices. Sure, the company has intermittent sales throughout the year — but rarely are Amazon’s own devices as cheap as they are on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Since the holiday

Enterprise hits and misses - Microsoft 365 raises a work surveillance debate and no one can accuse Salesforce of Slacking off

October 24, 2020

Enterprise hits and misses - Microsoft 365 raises a work surveillance debate, and no one can accuse Salesforce of Slacking off Jon Reed Sun, 11/29/2020 - 21:52 Summary: This week - Microsoft 365 provokes a work surveillance debate when new functionality details hit social media. Rumors have Salesforce taking a hard look at Slack - but why? Retailers hit the holiday home stretch,

Twitter round-up: Madhav Sheths tweet on key trends in the smartphones industry most popular tweet in Q3 2020

October 24, 2020

Smartphones lead as Verdict lists ten of the most popular tweets on telecommunications in Q3 2020 based on data from GlobalData’s Influencer Platform. The top tweets were chosen from influencers as tracked by GlobalData’s Influencer Platform, which is based on a scientific process that works on pre-defined parameters. Influencers are selected after a deep analysis [] The post Twitter round-up: Mad

Developer Successfully Virtualizes Windows for Arm on M1 Mac

October 21, 2020

Developer Alexander Graf has successfully virtualized the Arm version of Windows on an M1 Mac, proving that the M1 chip is capable of running Microsoft’s operating system (via The 8-Bit). Currently, Macs with the M1 chip do not support Windows and there is no Boot Camp feature as there is on Intel Macs, but support for Windows is a feature that many users would like to see. Using the op

The best robot vacuum and smart home deals you can get for Black Friday

October 20, 2020

Black Friday offers a number of good opportunities to up your smart-home game. Over the past couple of years, we’ve seen more good deals each year on things like smart light bulbs, robot vacuums and more during the holiday season. And that’s in addition to sales on the usual suspects when it comes to “smart” home tech — things like the Instant Pot and other small appliances. Instead of sifting thr

What Will 6G Look Like in a Geopolitical Divided World

October 19, 2020

A recent session of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and the Australian Smart Communities Association (ASCA) masterclass on 5G, featured Dr. Ian Oppenheimer, the NSW Government’s Chief Data Scientist and one of the country’s most respected experts in radio technology. Ian is also the Chair of the scientific advisory board of the 6G Flagship organization, a global research organization based i

The Morning After: Black Friday deals on TVs SSDs and more

October 17, 2020

While many of us are on our Thanksgiving break, Engadget’s commerce editor Valentina Palladino and the rest of the team are focused on the days immediately following. We’ll have ongoing updates about Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals you might be interested in, including some of the best 4K TV offers available right now, discounts on Amazon’s Fire HD tablets and Kindle readers, plus an all-time

Microsofts Surface Pro 8 and Surface Laptop 4 appear in leaked images

October 16, 2020

Surface Laptop 4 and Surface Pro 8. | cozyplanes (Twitter) Microsoft’s next Surface Pro 8 tablet and its upcoming Surface Laptop 4 have appeared in leaked images online. Twitter user cozyplanes discovered the images at what appears to be an FCC-like filing, noting that the Surface Pro 8 may ship with LTE support. Both devices will likely launch early next year, and don’t appear to feature

Welcome to 2020s: Cloud goes down - smart doorbells robovacs stop working

October 16, 2020

As more and more companies, websites and net-based services rely on cloud computing, the risks have also increased dramatically. Yesterday, we saw what happens when such services go crashing down. Amazon is the dominant player in cloud computing, with its Amazon Web Services (AWS) having 45 percent market share, crushing the competition, most notably, Google and Microsoft. Yesterday, AWS experi

Amazon Web Services outage is affecting major sites and apps

October 11, 2020

If you’re having trouble with some websites and apps at the minute, you’re far from the only one. Amazon Web Services (AWS), which powers a huge number of internet services, is in the midst of an outage in one of its regions.DownDetector, which tracks issues affecting online services, saw a significant increase in AWS outage reports from users on Wednesday morning. The site saw similar spikes for

Best Black Friday SIM-only deals: The cheapest SIMs from Vodafone Three and EE

October 11, 2020

Jade Vincent 6 hours 3 min ago Black Friday 2020 has arrived which means the UK’s best mobile networks have released an avalanche of the finest SIM-only deals. This year, Vodafone, EE and Three have not disappointed with a line-up of SIM-only bargains boasting supercharged 5G, unlimited data and super low lifetime costs. See related Best laptop for

Prolonged AWS outage has taken down a big chunk of the internet

October 11, 2020

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon’s internet infrastructure service that is the backbone of many websites and apps, is experiencing a major outage affecting a large portion of the internet. “Kinesis has been experiencing increased error rates this morning in our US-East-1 Region that’s impacted some other AWS services,” Amazon said in a statement to

IPv4 Market and IPv6 Deployment

October 9, 2020

Preparing for this session has provided an opportunity to research how the IPv4 address market has affected the deployment of IPv6. To begin, we look at the total addresses transferred and the number of addresses transferred over time. There are a few spikes where a large number of addresses was transferred in a single transaction, most recently from APIDT.org. More broadly, the number of tra

OneWeb Is Out of Bankruptcy but Not Out of the Woods

October 9, 2020

OneWeb, which declared bankruptcy in May, has reorganized and emerged from bankruptcy. Bharti Global, an Indian telecommunication conglomerate, and the British government each own 42.2% of the new company, and most of the rest is owned by previous investors SoftBank and Hughes Network Systems. Hughes will continue work on ground infrastructure and marketing and the original joint venture with Ai

Podcast Episode: Control Over Users Competitors and Critics

October 7, 2020

Episode 004 of EFF’s How to Fix the Internet Cory Doctorow joins EFF hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien as they discuss how large, established tech companies like Apple, Google, and Facebook can block interoperability in order to squelch competition and control their users, and how we can fix this by taking away big companies' legal right to block new tools that connect to their platforms – tools

Augusts WiFi smart lock is $50 off for Engadget readers at Wellbots

October 6, 2020

If you’re in the market for a smart lock, August’s 4th-gen WiFi device is one of the best the company has ever made. Normally priced at $250, the smart lock is now on sale for $199 exclusively for Engadget readers when you use the code at ENGADGETLOCK checkout. We’ve seen this smart lock drop between $205 and $230 in the recent past, but this is the best deal on it we’ve seen in a while. As usual,