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Apple must ease App Store rules, U.S. judge orders

Ericsson, Nokia benefit most from first-half 2021 telco network spend

Verizon adds 4 more mmWave cities, expands 5G Home service

GenXComm, an Austin TX-based private networking solutions, raised $20M in Series B funding.

GenXComm Raises $20M in Series B Funding | FinSMEs

Deutsche Telekom lifts T-Mobile US stake in SoftBank swap deal

Valorant leads the charge on enforcing Windows TPM to perma-ban cheaters' hardware

Facebook unveils its first smart glasses

All the Feels: NVIDIA Shares Expressive Speech Synthesis Research at Interspeech

Nvidia's New Voice A.I. Sounds Just Like a Real Person | Digital Trends

Emissions from computing and ICT could be worse than previously thought

We’ve been covering the Epic vs. Apple saga for over a year now—remember how it all started?

United Airlines and Delta are using data to make truly controversial decisions | ZDNet

Ericsson looks to blend in with new 5G radios for streetscapes

Opensignal clocks New York as fastest state for 5G downloads

SpaceX chief Elon Musk has stated that his Starlink internet service will transfer data close to the speed of light.

Starlink Will Transfer Data Close To 97% Of The Speed Of Light Says Musk

Apple's Upcoming AR/VR Headset to Require Connection to iPhone

I ported my AR Piano Learning App to the Quest using the new Passthrough API

Oculus Quest Apps Use AR To Teach You To Play Piano

Cloud-based VR education platform used to continue medical students' training in Japan

Carbon Robotics secures $27M for its autonomous field weeders

Gator Eats Drone

GM to halt production at nearly all North America assembly plants due to new chip problem

Vast Supply of Lithium Discovered in UK, It Is Renewable and Carbon Neutral

Since moving within the bounds of the EU, I’ve had the pleasure of pushing “reject all” to various websites’ cookie policies. While this is something I’ve grown accustomed to ignoring through my tenure on the internet in the good ol’ US of A, a surface-level jaunt into the worrying world of data collection has inspired me to rethink that apathy. 

Edge Roundup: August 30 — September 5, 2021

Qualcomm, ZTE Set New 5G Downlink Record With mmWave | Digital Trends

CTO Walter Goldenits said that the launch of 5G SA will depend on the use cases for the technology as well as the availability of devices

Deutsche Telekom to launch 5G SA in 2021 or 2022: CTO

Amazon Urges FCC to Deny SpaceX's Plan for Second-Generation Starlink

Fastest Mobile Networks 2021

High-speed fiber-optic internet coming to Pittsburg

The global market for cloud gaming will hit 23.7 million paying users and $1.6 billion n revenues in 2021, according to a report by Newzoo.

Newzoo: Cloud gaming will reach 23.7M paying users and generate $1.6B in 2021

The manual for Facebook’s Project Aria AR glasses shows what it’s like to wear them

The Co-founder of One of Gaming's Most Lauded Studios Believes XR is the Future

Alphabet’s drone delivery service Wing hits 100,000 deliveries milestone

The new A2Z delivery drone with freefall delivery mechanism has been specifically designed to meet the concerns of consumers.

A2Z Delivery Drone Designed to Meet Consumer Concerns - DRONELIFE

Waymo launches robotaxi service in San Francisco

Waymo will no longer sell its ‘Laser Bear Honeycomb’ lidar sensors to other companies

Well, the biggest tech headlines of the week undoubtedly belonged to the OnlyFans fallout—and I’m sure you all know why. But don’t fret! We’re here to report what you may have missed going on in the background, all assuredly SFW.  

Edge Roundup: August 23 — August 29, 2021

Critical IoT security camera vulnerability allows attackers to remotely watch live video - and gain access to networks | ZDNet

How hackers can use message mirroring apps to see all your SMS texts — and bypass 2FA security

Drone Delivery Is Live Today, And It’s 90% Cheaper Than Car-Based Services

Qualcomm unveils its first 5G-capable reference drone | Engadget

Boulder robotics company makes landscaping easy, autonomous

T-Mobile asks FCC’s permission to keep using unused 600 MHz

Cable TV Lost 1.1 Million Subscribers Last Quarter. They Went Here. | The Motley Fool

SpaceX's Starlink has an average download sped of 170 Mbps, and satellite visibility does not affect outages reveals new study.

Starlink Study Reveals Mind-Boggling Facts About Service Outages

Nvidia expects GPU supply constraints for the ‘vast majority’ of 2022

Intel enters the PC gaming GPU battle with Arc

I would like to spare you all the redundancy of “welcoming you back to another edition of the Edge Roundup,” but alas, here I am doing it anyway. If anyone can shed insight on the fickle art of crafting consistently compelling blog intros, this is an open call to do so.

Edge Roundup: August 16 — August 22, 2021

Verizon and AT&T plan post-pandemic 5G marketing blitz, even as consumer use cases remain unclear

T-Mobile to shut Sprint's LTE network by June 30, 2022 | Engadget

T-Mobile sees 2 categories of fixed wireless opportunity

The FCC finally made a new broadband map of the US

CenturyLink vs. Comcast Xfinity: Which is better for your home internet?

Speed Tests Show Starlink Is Now Nearly As Fast As Broadband

The US is ready to pay for broadband like the essential service it is

AT&#038;T Completes DirecTV Spinoff; Satellite Operator Unites Its Internet-Delivered Bundles Under New Brand DirecTV Stream

WSJ News Exclusive | Lumen Technologies to Sell U.S. Telecom Assets to Apollo for $7.5 Billion

Skydio Dock Tease

An enginner for China's online delivery giant drone 10 hours to use a JD delivery drone to get food to workers stranded by the recent flood.

JD Delivery Drone Used to Deliver Food to Flood Victims - DRONELIFE

There's a market for autonomous drone deliveries between ships – and Volansi just demonstrated it's up to the task with three cargo flights.

Volansi completes first-ever autonomous ship-to-ship drone delivery

Corvus One - The World's Best Indoor Intelligence Platform

Warehouse drones take flight

Let’s save the introduction and just jump right into it, shall we? Roll the news!

Edge Roundup: August 2 — August 8, 2021

Verizon, Samsung fire up 5G vRAN trial with Massive MIMO on C-band

Vodafone wants U.K. government to propel 5G private networks

Altice USA outlines new Stream box strategy for broadband subs

SpaceX's Starlink Reviewed: How is it after 4 months?

The Coalition - Character Rendering Test on Unreal Engine 5

New Unreal Engine Renders Even More Realistic Grizzled White Men

Facebook pauses sales of the Oculus Quest 2 due to face irritation concerns

AI Drone faster than Humans? Time-Optimal Planning for Quadrotor Waypoint Flight

Autonomous quadrotor beats two human pilots in a drone race | Engadget

Toyota is quietly pushing Congress to slow the shift to electric vehicles

Argo AI can now offer the public rides in its autonomous vehicles in California

Tesla rewrote its own software to survive the chip shortage

Apple's iPhone hot streak is going to run into the global chip shortage

Intel will make Qualcomm chips in new foundry deal

We’ve already hit August, and I’m a little unsettled by it. If you’re with me on that—feel free to assuage the summertime sadness with another rundown of the week’s newest in tech news. 

FCC finalizes program to rip and replace Huawei, ZTE telecom equipment in the U.S.

Ericsson inks its largest-ever deal with Verizon in $8.3 billion 5G plan as it faces headwinds from China

Dish and AT&T sign wireless network deal worth at least $5 billion

AT&T beats wireless subscriber additions estimate on 5G demand

Verizon expands FWA business offering to 42 cities

California's upcoming open fiber network could make fast broadband more accessible | Engadget

Amazon bought Facebook’s satellite team to help build Starlink competitor

GCI strikes $150M satellite deal with Intelsat to expand capacity for rural areas

Steam Deck: Valve Talks Hardware Power, Controller Comfort, and More

Steam Deck Is Valve's Answer To The Switch, Out In December

Stadia introducing 70% revenue share for Pro subscription

Facebook brings cloud gaming to Apple devices with a web app

Amazon patents trucks that unleash and direct fleets of delivery drones 

Tesla has officially launched its Full Self-Driving subscription package for $199 per month, or $99 for those who have previously bought the now discontinued Enhanced Autopilot package.

Tesla launches its Full Self-Driving subscription package for $199 per month

Cigarette butts have finally met their nemesis: BeachBot, an AI-enabled robot

Microsoft-powered autonomous beach-cleaning robot is here to clean our shores

EV startup Rivian announces $2.5 bln funding round led by Amazon, Ford

SuperAnnotate Raises $14.5 Million To Help Automate The Computer Vision Pipeline

Polis Miri lupus mesin bitcoin bernilai RM5.3 juta

Viral video shows Malaysian police destroying 1,069 bitcoin mining rigs with a steamroller

Annnd we’re back with a special, jet lag-fueled double header of an Edge Roundup! Your’s truly has undergone a bit of a relocation, which has thrown a bit of a wrench into our typical operation. But the show must go on!

Edge computing processes data at the point of transmission with less data sent to the cloud. Explore top companies now.

Top Edge Computing Companies of 2021 | IT Business Edge

Biden’s executive order puts net neutrality back in the spotlight

Halo’s Driverless Cars Use The Nation’s Largest & Fastest 5G Network | T-Mobile

Halo and Las Vegas Launch Driverless Car Service Powered by T‑Mobile 5G | T‑Mobile Newsroom

What’s better than a superhero?

Verizon demos THOR, its new vehicle for frontline rapid humanitarian response

Apple Reportedly Storing Over 8 Million Terabytes of iCloud Data on Google Servers

Russian operator MTS revealed plans to boost its enterprise cloud proposition following the RUB5.2 billion acquisition of GDTs Energy Group.

MTS strikes $70M Russia data centre deal

Hiber has raised $15 million in a second round of funding for its user-generated content platform on the web.

Hiber raises $15M for user-generated games created with phones

Osso VR | Collaborative Training (2019)

Osso VR raises $27 million to turn surgery into a video game

Cheat-maker brags of computer-vision auto-aim that works on “any game”

Why not start off this week’s Roundup with a healthy serving of self-promo? We’re excited to have been named amongst IT Business Edge’s “Top Edge Companies of 2021.” 

Test and space: Barcelona telecoms bash lifts 'hybrid' trade fair hopes

IBM lands Verizon, Telefonica pacts as hybrid cloud, edge computing, 5G meld | ZDNet

MobiledgeX resurfaces with new investors, operator engagements

T-Mobile has offered its free Test Drive program to trial the network for years now and that used to mean giving the Uncarrier a go through a hotspot device. Now T-Mobile is offering a super seamless way for iPhone users to give it a real test for 30 days without any strings or actually having [&hellip;]

T-Mobile cleverly brings free 30-day Test Drive program to iPhone XS and later via eSIM - 9to5Mac

FCC opens floodgates for $7.2B Emergency Connectivity Fund

Here's where the FCC's $3.2B Emergency Broadband Benefit fund is going

Facebook adds Ubisoft games to its cloud gaming service as part of huge US expansion | Engadget

Indonesia becomes key mobile gaming nation in South East Asia

Laser tag and paintball are so last century. Virtual reality with friends is staging a comeback

Using OpenSky for Commercial Drone Operations

Google’s Wing launches free app to help drone pilots obey US regulations

Nixie system uses drones for more efficient water sampling

Even though a digital keynote by Elon Musk ended up drawing the biggest crowd—Mobile World Congress pulled off a relatively successful in-person industry event amidst heightened COVID restrictions. 

“I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted

Microsoft says its customer support tools were compromised by the SolarWinds hackers

Why Windows 11 is forcing everyone to use TPM chips

Retail’s evolution depends on edge computing

Optimum is dramatically reducing cable internet speeds to be better "aligned with the industry"

Elon Musk obtains permission to offer internet in Mexico for 10 years

To succeed, cloud gaming needs to disappear

Cloud gaming has spread out into several monetization models. An inflection point is coming, providing a great oppoturnity for this tech.

Cloud gaming monetization keeps evolving

Digitising Rural Land Records, One Drone At A Time 

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Edge Roundup! Security-focused headlines were heavily featured, so let’s dive right in with the latest updates.

Lina Khan, progressive tech critic, sworn in as FTC chair

50 groups urge Biden to fill FCC opening to reinstate net neutrality rules

Sen. Manchin paves way for a telehealth revolution

U.S. FCC votes to advance proposed ban on Huawei, ZTE gear

Starlink dishes go into “thermal shutdown” once they hit 122° Fahrenheit

Amazon's Luna cloud gaming service is now open to all Prime members

Riot Games has launched multiple efforts like its Valorant Game Changers Series to make sure women succeed in esports.

How Riot Games will ensure that Valorant&#8217;s esports stars include women

Walmart eyes drone delivery future with investment in DroneUp

I just watched McDonald's new AI drive-thru and I've lost my appetite | ZDNet

Qualcomm reportedly offers to invest in Arm as regulators threaten to block Nvidia's $40 billion acquisition

It’s official: Antitrust and anti monopoly vanguard, progressive tech critic, and associate professor at Columbia Law School Lina Khan is now helming the FTC. 

Senate passes bill to boost US tech industry, counter rivals

US drops Trump order targeting TikTok, plans its own review

UScellular, Nokia, Qualcomm stretch 5G mmWave 10 km in new record

We tried home internet from a popular cell phone carrier. Here's what we learned

NY can’t force ISPs to offer $15 low-income broadband plans, judge rules

2.31 million U.S. households sign up for broadband subsidy -FCC

Record labels sue another ISP, demanding mass disconnections of Internet users

$1 billion piracy ruling could force ISPs to disconnect more Internet users

Google to build new undersea cable to connect Latin America and the U.S.

Microsoft prepares cloud gaming service for Japan launch

Blacknut and POST Luxembourg first to extend 5G Cloud Gaming service to iOS mobile devices | Blacknut Business Solutions

Facebook just bought the Fortnite of VR

What would you pay for autonomous driving? Volkswagen hopes $8.50 per hour

Police in Malaysia use drones to detect high temperatures amid Covid surge

Scientists at U.K.-based AI lab DeepMind argue true artificial intelligence will emerge from sticking to the principle of reward maximization.

DeepMind says reinforcement learning is &#8216;enough&#8217; to reach general AI

What better way to kick off Monday than with a healthy dose of tech industry news? In this Roundup we’re covering record breakthroughs, lawsuits, expansions, acquisitions, new ideas and inventions—so yeah, pretty much everything we’ve come to expect from a “normal” week. 

Walmart will give 740,000 employees a free Samsung smartphone

Greater Share of iPhone 13 Models Expected to Support Ultra-Fast mmWave 5G

T-Mobile in ‘early innings’ of rural distribution game

Intel reiterates chip supply shortages could last several years

In a recent interview, the CEO of EA said that multiplayer was one of the biggest issues facing Google Stadia, but cloud gaming is the future.

EA CEO says multiplayer is the biggest Stadia problem - 9to5Google

Quest 2 Propels VR Headsets On Steam To All-Time-High

Delivery, drones and DHL

I broke off a tiny piece of the world with a self-flying drone

Cruise can now give passengers rides in driverless cars in California

Now you can call a Waymo driverless taxi right from Google Maps

Pentagon report clears use of drones made by top Chinese manufacturer

The network from Amazon may not be bad in the ways you imagine. But one privacy expert worries about abuse from stalkers.

The privacy concerns with Amazon Sidewalk, explained | Popular Science

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Edge Roundup! What better way than to kick off with the latest from one of the U.S.’ “most innovative retailers.” 

Amazon buys MGM for $8.45 billion

Intel Report Outlines How Edge Computing Can Drive Business Innovation

Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors

Edge Roundup: September 20—26, 2021

2021-09-27

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