Among the most feared events in space physics are solar eruptions, massive explosions that hurl millions of tons of plasma gas and radiation into space. These outbursts can be deadly: if the first moon-landing mission had ...
Space Exploration
Dec 23, 2015
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Apple, beset by falling iPhone sales, announced upcoming changes to its phone and computer software intended to highlight its increasing emphasis on digital services and to further position it as a fierce guardian of personal ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 3, 2019
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Anxiety has set in across the space industry ever since the world's richest man, Jeff Bezos, revealed Project Kuiper: a plan to put 3,236 satellites in orbit to provide high-speed internet across the globe.
Space Exploration
May 8, 2019
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have discovered key conditions that give rise to fast magnetic reconnection, the process that triggers solar flares, auroras, ...
Plasma Physics
Mar 2, 2018
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Jonathan Ng, a Princeton University graduate student at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), has for the first time applied a fluid simulation to the space plasma process behind ...
Plasma Physics
Sep 8, 2017
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A telecom company in the Netherlands has teamed up with the country's traffic safety authority to develop a bicycle lock that also blocks its mobile network, in a move aimed at protecting young riders who regularly pedal ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Jun 21, 2017
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Magnetic reconnection, a universal process that triggers solar flares and northern lights and can disrupt cell phone service and fusion experiments, occurs much faster than theory says that it should. Now researchers at the ...
Plasma Physics
Mar 31, 2017
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Google on Tuesday unveiled a new landline telephone service aimed at helping consumers stay connected in the Internet cloud.
Telecom
Mar 29, 2016
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Google on Monday opened its Project Fi mobile phone service to anyone in the United States using its latest model Nexus smartphones.
Telecom
Mar 7, 2016
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The top US telecom regulator proposed Wednesday to regulate broadband Internet service providers as "public utility" carriers, in a renewed effort to enforce "net neutrality" rules.
Telecom
Feb 4, 2015
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