With thousands of schools and preschools closed and many states under "stay-at-home" orders to try to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus, families are facing a tough situation: trying to work—possibly remotely—while ...
Social Sciences
Apr 14, 2020
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As the coronavirus pandemic forces the closing of more schools and workplaces, the health crisis has exposed the "digital divide" which allows some to stay on task remotely, with others left out.
Education
Mar 12, 2020
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Traffic congestion is one of the most significant challenges facing our cities. Melbourne's population is growing by around 325 people a day and is projected to overtake Sydney's within a decade. Identified as the most congested ...
Economics & Business
Sep 2, 2019
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A project that would bring high-speed internet across Kentucky will be delayed because company representatives say an "abundance" of squirrels have chewed through wiring.
Telecom
Jun 19, 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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There is a way around the notoriously sluggish internet in West Virginia. You just need a car and some time.
Telecom
Apr 15, 2019
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Access to broadband internet has a positive effect on fertility, overall life satisfaction and time spent with children. Since this effect is largely driven by higher-educated women, though, it risks creating another digital ...
Social Sciences
Apr 3, 2019
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For much of the past decade, fierce political battles over the internet have involved concerns that the fastest access would go only to those with the greatest ability to pay. In testimony last week in Washington, however, ...
Internet
Apr 1, 2019
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Sitting in the cab of a combine harvester on a soybean farm in Wells, Minnesota this summer, University of Virginia assistant media studies professor Christopher Ali was amazed as he looked down at the dashboard.
Internet
Oct 9, 2018
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Speed limits apply not only to traffic. There are limitations on the control of light as well, in optical switches for internet traffic, for example. Physicists at Chalmers University of Technology now understand why it is ...
Optics & Photonics
Jun 28, 2018
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