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Verizon | April 01, 2022

Verizon and Nova Credit launched a collaboration today that would provide immigrants to the United States quick access to the finest network and devices — something that has long been a difficulty for people without a credit history in the United States. Those moving to the United States for business, education, or personal reasons can opt-in to share their overseas credit history with Verizon as part of the application process, allowing them to take advantage of the advantages and flexibi...

DATA CENTER NETWORKING

Rockport | October 27, 2021

Rockport Networks announces the commercial availability of its new switchless network architecture that delivers industry-leading performance and scalability necessary for performance-intensive computing workloads including HPC, AI and ML. Addressing the longstanding data center chokepoints that are throttling innovation, the Rockport Switchless Network offers a completely new design, using breakthrough software and data-routing techniques to overcome congestion, delivering predictable performan...

Space | March 18, 2020

SpaceX's latest batch of 60 Starlink internet satellites made it to orbit just fine this morning (March 18), but the company's Falcon 9 rocket ride suffered a slight hiccup along the way. One of the nine Merlin engines that powers the reusable Falcon 9's first stage shut down too early during today's launch, said SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk. He vowed to get to the bottom of the issue, even though it didn't prevent the rocket from doing its job. Today's success "...

Gizmodo | March 15, 2020

As astronomers eagerly await the opening of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, anxious operators have run tests to see how well the system might work when low Earth orbit is cluttered with satellite megaconstellations, similar to the one being built by SpaceX. Unsurprisingly, the results were not good. New research from the Rubin Observatory Project Science Team (PST) shows that a megaconstellation consisting of 42,000 satellites will wreak havoc on the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST...