Facebook gives a glimpse of metaverse, its planned virtual reality world

In the middle of a crisis, Facebook Inc. renames itself Meta

Do the Facebook papers spell doom for Meta – or is it too big to fail?

AT&T Brings 5G to Ford EV Manufacturing Facility

T-Mobile 5G speeds on 2.5 GHz see 40% boost  – Opensignal

Subspace has unveiled its parallel and real-time internet with a tech platform for gaming and the metaverse.

Subspace will launch its parallel and real-time internet for gaming and the metaverse

Roblox was down all weekend, and not because of Chipotle

Watch A Drone Screw in a Lightbulb Like a Scene Out of Interstellar

A.L.I. Technologies XTURISMO 富士スピードウェイお披露目会（2021/10/26）

Japanese UAV startup A.L.I. Technologies test flies a prototype drone motorcycle capable of top speeds of 100 kmh for up to 40 minutes.

Japanese startup test flies a one-person drone motorcycle

No end in sight for chip shortage as supply chain problems pile up

The global chip shortage is continuing to wreak havoc for the car giants

This week’s roundup is coming to your eyes a little later than usual (tis’ the season for ill-timed sickness, after all), but hey—can you think of a better way to kick off the weekend? If so, feel free to not enlighten me. 

Volkswagen research project 5G Insel - cloud-based control of robots

Volkswagen testing 5G for production on its way to smart factories; Wolfsburg, Transparent Factory in Dresden

DOD Begins Fielding 5G Communications to California First Responders

Decarbonizing industries with connectivity and 5G

Verizon has 150,000 fixed wireless access subs  | Light Reading

Comcast goes out of footprint with XClass TV  | Light Reading

Accenture acquires 60,000 Oculus Quest 2 headsets for training — VRWorldTech

Alphabet’s Wing is bringing its drone delivery service to Dallas-Fort Worth

Drone Delivery is Now a Reality // Mesa and Flirtey

Who we are — Flash Forest

Another week, another batch of headlines from the telecommunications (and telco adjacent) front! While this week’s roundup may be a tad scant, we’re looking forward to the inevitable influx of updates from “North America’s most influential connectivity event”: MWC Los Angeles.

T-Mobile is making its 5G home internet $10 cheaper

Field techs from Timberline Communications use an augmented reality app running on T-Mobile's 5G network to maintain the T-Mobile 5G network.

T-Mobile US uses a 5G-based AR application to maintain its 5G network

Dish's Dave Mayo pulls back the curtain on 5G buildout | Light Reading

Comcast has successfully tested 10G data transfer on its cable modem network. That's a step toward providing 10-gigabits-per-second speed.

Comcast successfully tests 10G cable modem network

Comcast 'making a lot of good progress' with DOCSIS 4.0 | Light Reading

Cablelabs Launches 10G Challenge to Support Innovators and Accelerate the Development of Applications for the 10G Network

Cable's broadband party could be ending, in a negative signal for Charter and Comcast

X-Rings: A Hand-mounted 360 Degree Shape Display for Grasping in Virtual Reality [UIST 2021]

Microsoft Shows Off Adaptive Shape VR Controller Prototype

Unofficial Quest App Store 'SideQuest' Raises $3M Seed Investment

World’s First Rooftop Drone Delivery Service | Wing

World's First Rooftop Drone Delivery Service Lands in Australia

VoloDrone first public flight

Volocopter's massive cargo drone lifts off in public for the first time

A Breath in the Sky: the Journey

Emerging from stealth mode, Unither Bioelectronics reveals it has made big strides in realizing its goal of using eVTOL aircraft to transport human organs.

First lung delivery by drone is ‘stepping stone’ for Unither’s eVTOL organ flights

GM reveals Ultra Cruise "hands-free" system that covers "95 percent" of driving scenarios

GM-backed Cruise targets 1 million self-driving vehicles by 2030

Get ready for another double-edition Edge Roundup! Two weeks of tech news is better than one, right? For brevity’s sake, we’re testing out a new (condensed) delivery this week. 

Facebook-backed consortium expands plans for world's longest subsea cable

Cox launches CBRS pilot with city of Las Vegas

Internet goes down for millions, tech companies scramble as key encryption service expires

Data centres could use 70% of grid by 2030 - expert

96% of third-party container applications deployed in cloud infrastructure contain known vulnerabilities: Unit 42 | ZDNet

Astera Labs, a fabless chip startup, nabs $50M at a $950M valuation to remove bottlenecks in high-bandwidth cloud applications

Nreal’s new AR sunglasses are made for binge watching TV

Honda announces plans to build electric VTOLs and telepresence robots | Engadget

Alphabet's Waymo and GM's Cruise get California DMV approval to run commercial autonomous car services

Between the leaking of the Pandora papers, the ongoing trial of Elizabeth Holmes, and of course, Mercury entering retrograde for the third and final time of the year—it’s been an eventful week!

Edge Roundup: September 27 — October 3, 2021

Huawei Executive’s Return to China: How the Deal Came Off

T-Mobile grows 5G fixed wireless internet footprint in four states

Federal program helps those impacted by pandemic get financial help for internet access

How Does the Internet Work? - Glad You Asked S1

Someone made a map of every Internet-connected cable under water

Report: Apple AR-VR Headset To Launch Second Half Of 2022

Facebook Enters &#8216;Metaverse&#8217; in Full Force as AR/VR Chief Takes Over as CTO

Vay – A new approach to driverless mobility

Startup's Autonomy Workaround: Some Other Person Will Drive Your Car Remotely 

Raven attacks drone delivering coffee | ABC News

Watch a raven take out a Google drone mid-air as the tech giant is forced to ground its home delivery service due to bird attacks

Welcome back to another weekly roundup of tech news! First up, we have to plug our CEO pelle’s panel discussion “Defining Edge For All Stakeholders: Where Is The Value, And What Groundwork Needs To Be Put in?” for the Edge Computing Expo this week.

Big Tech grapples with Russian internet crackdown during election

Rivals allege mass fraud as Russian pro-Putin party wins big majority

5G Open Innovation Lab adds new ag tech partner and names 12 startups in fourth cohort

T-Mobile's Newest Partner Could Propel Its Growth | The Motley Fool

John Deere foresees private 5G at its factories worldwide

Nokia CEO aims to catch next wave of 5G investment

It’s official: Parsec is now part of Unity | Unity Blog

We created holograms you can touch – you could soon shake a virtual colleague's hand

Walmart to test self-driving cars in multiple cities with Ford and Argo AI

Ireland raises privacy question over Facebook smart glasses

In a significant loss for global internet freedom, tech industry leaders Google and Apple both heeded censorship demands by the Russian government amidst the country’s recent parliamentary elections. 

Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite - #FreeFortnite

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?

Edge Roundup: November 1—7, 2021

2021-11-08

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