“We had no internet anywhere in the booking. So parents would have to walk their kids down to I-25 to park, and the kids would have to do their homework on their cell phones,” said Herman Sanchez, Santo Domingo Pueblo Tribal Administrator, of accessing online learning during the early stages of the COVID -19 pandemic. … Read more
Governor Roy Cooper’s press office 9 minutes ago FILE- An Internet router and switch are displayed in East Derry, NH, June 19, 2018. President Joe Biden is expected to announce his administration’s plans on Monday, June 26, 2023, to distribute billions of dollars budgeted by Congress to bring the Internet to every household and small … Read more
Image credits: New York Stock Exchange / Stock Photo / Getty Images DigitalOcean, the cloud hosting company, announced today that it has agreed to acquire Paperspace, a New York-based cloud computing and AI development startup, for $111 million in cash. Yancey Spruill, CEO of DigitalOcean, says Paperspaces infrastructure and tools, when integrated with DigitalOceans products, … Read more
Eight years after New York first rolled out its Broadband for All plan to bring Internet access to homes across the state, some rural residents still lack reliable broadband Internet access. A $670 million federal cash infusion announced last week could change that. New York’s $1 Billion ConnectAll Initiative is the state’s latest way to … Read more
Everett Collection The silver lining for the Independence Day bomb Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, its first five days at the $82 million box office isn’t nearly as bad as Paramount/Skydance Terminator Genisys. That sequel that launched just before July 4, 2015 left a lot of methane in the air with $42.4 million … Read more
NEWPORT How difficult is it to represent the Biden administration in Kentucky’s rural and red boroughs? It’s actually not that bad, said US Commerce Secretary and former Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo, at least when you’re there to dole out more than a billion dollars in federal funding for broadband Internet. Raimondo participates in a … Read more
In 2022, Abhay Parasnis, former CTO of Adobe, founded Typeface, a generative AI startup focused on enterprise use cases. With it, he hoped to leverage the generative AI that was just starting to become trendy at the time to deliver personalized content for brands at scale. The typeface, thanks in part to the excitement for … Read more
Image credits: Jian Fan/Getty Images David Lazovsky and Preet Virk, technologists with backgrounds in semiconductor engineering and photonics, came to the joint realization several years ago that TO THE and machine learning workloads would quickly run into a data movement problem. Increasingly, they predicted, it would become difficult to move data to and from computing … Read more
Even with Iowa on the line for $415.3 million from the Biden administration to expand high-speed Internet access, part of a record $42.5 billion being rolled out nationwide, experts they wonder if it will be enough to connect homes without broadband services and juice speeds for those with slow access. An estimated 1.3 million homes … Read more
This story has been updated. Connecticut to receive more than $144 million in federal funding to help expand state’s broadband networks and ensure, for the first time, that every home and business in the state has access to reliable, high-speed Internet . The federal grant is part of a larger $42.45 billion national program that … Read more