The 5G home internet competition in the US is heating up with T-Mobile and Verizon offering some great incentives to attract customers. Follow the speed, pricing and all the details for each provider in our 5G home internet comparison. Update 5/31/23: T-Mobiles 5G Home download speeds have increased and are now between 72 and 245 … Read more
Short while? Here are the highlights: The global population of Internet users continues to grow, but the average time online has decreased slightly this year Even so, the use of social media continues to grow as those key networking and messaging channels are also growing to play a bigger role in brand research and discovery, … Read more
Photography by Marina Testino. All images courtesy of Austin Lee. Austin Lee was born the same year the internet as we know it was invented. In the years since 1983, both have become forces of innovation: Lee as an artist whose work occupies an uncanny valley between the physical and the virtual, and the Internet … Read more
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly AI newsletter. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week, AI insiders heatedly discussed an open letter signed by Elon Musk and various industry heavyweights arguing that AI poses an existential risk to humanity. They have asked the labs to … Read more
Dowson Tong, Senior Executive Vice President and CEO of Tencent Cloud and Tencent’s Smart Industries Group, recently spoke at the Boao Forum for Asia about the future of the Internet and its trends. Tong outlined three major trends that will shape the next generation of the Internet: AI-based, immersive, and integration with industries. He pointed … Read more
Image credits: Open AI OpenAI’s AI-powered viral chatbot, ChatGPT, can now browse the Internet in some cases. OpenAI today launched plugins for ChatGPT, which extend the capabilities of bots by granting them access to third-party knowledge sources and databases, including the web. Available in alpha for ChatGPT users and developers in the list of Waiting, … Read more
Receive free updates on Chinese politics and policies Well, I’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding last Chinese politics and politics news every morning. China has begun blocking plans to lay and maintain undersea Internet cables across the South China Sea, as Beijing seeks to exert greater control over the infrastructure that transmits … Read more
Last chance to see? Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images Last week, in a party vote, the Republican-controlled House Foreign Affairs Committee voted to advance a bill that would give President Biden the authority to sanction or ban TikTok. Over the weekend, Democratic Senator Mark Warner announced that, in cooperation with Republican John Thune, he would … Read more
Twenty-six hidden words in a 1996 telecommunications overhaul law allowed companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google to become the giants they are today. A case the US Supreme Court heard on Tuesday, González vs. Googlechallenges this law, namely whether the technology companies are responsible for the material posted on their platforms. Judges will decide whether … Read more
TOPIC ANALYSIS By Amy Howe on February 21, 2023 at 4.31pm Eric Schnapper argues before the judges for the Gonzalez family. Justice Neil Gorsuch was “under the weather” and participated in the argument from a distance. (William Hennessy) The Supreme Court on Tuesday debated the scope of a 27-year-old federal law that protects social media … Read more