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The UK could greenlight direct-to-phone satellite services this year

Engadget

The regulator said the tech could also provide backup coverage during outages, offer service to ships and passengers in coastal waters without a connection and provide emergency 999 services (the UK's version of 911) in remote areas. Ofcom is opening a consultation period with stakeholders from now to May 20.

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“MyTerms” wants to become the new way we dictate our privacy on the web

Ars Technica

Author, journalist, and long-time Internet freedom advocate Doc Searls wants us to stop asking for privacy from websites, services, and AI and start telling these things what we will and will not accept. The websites, apps, or services you visit are the second party.

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Elon Musk wants to privatize Amtrak. It would make train travel worse

Fast Company Tech

Project 2025 called for the privatization of all sorts of government agencies and services, and Elon Muskwho has been helping enact that plansaid this week that the U.S. should privatize Amtrak specifically, calling the national passenger rail service a sad situation. Train travel in the U.S.

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NASA Signs Contract for Elon Musk's Starship, Even Though It's Never Launched Without Exploding

Futurism

The space agency announced last week that it had awarded SpaceX a "modification under the NASA Launch Services (NLS) II contract to add Starship to their existing Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch service offerings."

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Neutered: Federal court strikes down FCC authority to impose net neutrality rules

TechSpot

The Federal Communications Commission's long-standing effort to establish stronger oversight of the internet was dealt a decisive blow this week when the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the FCC lacks the authority to regulate wireless and home broadband services under the same set of rules that have traditionally.

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USPS Releases Nonprofit Stamp

NonProfit PRO

Postal Service issued Patriotic Block, a new nondenominated, nonprofit stamp intended for business mailings by authorized nonprofit organizations.

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Dust storm causes deadly highway pileup in Kansas. Here’s what to know

Fast Company Tech

We have a very low level of public awareness of a dust storm and what damage it can cause, said Daniel Tong, an associate professor of atmospheric chemistry at George Mason University who is among the authors of a 2023 paper on dust storm deaths. You couldnt see, said Jerry Burkhart, the fire and emergency services chief in Lamar, Colorado.

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