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Google Balloon Net – aka Project Loon
How can wideband internet service be provided to remote areas of the world separated from large cities by dense jungles, multiple mountain ranges, large expanses of desert land, sea water, or other obstacles? Of course, [...]
Facebook African Satellite
Facebook’s Facebook’s Drone Network project has seemed naive and unworkable to skeptics. Mark Zuckerberg also may have finally realized that, because he recently announced collaboration with Eutelsat to provide internet service to large parts of Sub-Saharan [...]
Facebook’s Drone Network
Facebook’s alternative to Google’s balloon network idea is an intercommunicating network of fixed-wing drone aircraft with wingspans like Boeing 737’s that can fly three months at a time to provide wideband internet service to remote [...]
One-Line Mona Lisa
How many lines would you need to draw a complex grayscale image of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa? The old NTSC (National Television System Committee) analog broadcast TV systems in the United States used 525 [...]
FCC Allows Wifi Router Hacking
After strong public push-back to proposed FCC rule changes that would have banned the installation of open-source firmware to improve WiFi router security, the FCC flipped and decided the U.S. public can hack their own [...]