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

Netflix apparently wants to break into the video game business. Experts say that's a bad idea.

Nvidia sold $155 million in crypto mining chips last quarter, but PC gaming remains its biggest market

Iran bans cryptocurrency mining for four months to stave off blackouts

Bitcoin Mining Council to report renewable energy usage

Massive bitcoin mine discovered in UK after police raid suspected cannabis farm 

Mondays are for media consolidation, apparently! Not long after it was reported AT&T and Discovery would be joining forces, Amazon announced that it has bought MGM for a whopping $8.45 billion. 

AT&T and Discovery to create new streaming giant

Virgin and O2's $44 billion telecoms merger cleared by UK competition watchdog

DT rumored to want majority control of T-Mobile US

Google is moving IT workloads between its data centers to boost its use of renewable energy, shifting the data processing for YouTube videos to locations where green power is plentiful. This approach creates powerful new opportunities to build climate-aware cloud applications.

Google Moving Workloads Between Data Centers to Use Greener Energy

Netflix in search of executive to oversee gaming expansion - source

Snap is buying its AR display supplier for more than $500 million

Snap’s new Spectacles let you see the world in augmented reality

A new report says that the drone delivery market is growing at a stunning 53% CAGR - as most retail customers favor same day delivery.

drone delivery market grows at 53% CAGR - DRONELIFE

The role for drones in Biden’s infrastructure plan | ZDNet

When COVID hit, these pilots changed course. Now, they're hunting pests in Victoria's High Country

GMC HUMMER EV powered by Android Automotive OS with Google built-in

Forget About Android Auto: Google Says Android Automotive Ready for Prime Time

We’re starting off this week with everyone’s favorite segment, the #StreamingWars. 

Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production

Samsung and Ericsson end legal battles and sign patent agreement | ZDNet

Ericsson adds C-band, mmWave, 5G CBRS radios for U.S. indoor coverage

Verizon chases $7-8B private wireless market

China Threatens Retaliation Against Ericsson if Sweden Doesn’t Drop Huawei 5G Ban 

FCC approves $7B broadband connectivity fund

This is a map of America’s broadband problem

I moved from NYC to rural Vermont and had to figure out how to get a strong, high-quality internet connection on my own. I tried it all — here's what works.

Google Cloud teams up with SpaceX&#8217;s Starlink for enterprise connectivity at network&#8217;s edge

Royal Mail to deliver to Scilly Isles by drone in first UK trial of its kind

Organ transplant is a race against time. And delivery drones are a transformative solution that can help us to save more lives.

Drone transports human pancreas for the first time - DroneDJ

Ready for a robot to deliver your packages? New Oklahoma law allows ground-based drones

Street light upgrade, high-tech housing, part of Rome&#8217;s plan to lure Amazon or Walmart for drone delivery

US fuel pipeline hackers 'didn't mean to create problems'

It’s Monday, meaning we’ve got more industry highlights coming your way! To kickoff this week, we need to touch on the tech that keeps much of the world spinning—semiconductors.

USPS gets ahead of missing packages with AI edge computing

Perfect Pizza Dough

Ajit Pai promised cheaper Internet—real prices rose 19 percent instead

STUDY: 40.2% of Consumers Would Consider Switching To Municipal Broadband if Made Available

Starlink can serve 500,000 users easily, several million “more of a challenge”

Don't Try to Pirate Movies on SpaceX's Starlink

What entertainment does Gen Z prefer? The answer isn't good for Hollywood

Stadia’s VP and head of product leaves Google

Riot Games and Konvoy Ventures back games publisher Carry1st in $6M Series A

Oculus Headsets Now Make Up 60% Of SteamVR

Olson, Chappy go back to back, thanks to VR 

Staggering approval for Alphabet drone among early customers | ZDNet

Wing's 1-Year-Plus Drone Delivery Trial Looks Like a Fantastic Success  - Core77

‘Gamechanger’: Uganda launches drone delivering HIV drugs to remote islands

It’s been quite the wholesome week of news!

Facebook’s “Oversight Board” upheld Trump’s post-POTUS platform ban (at least for the next six months), Elon Musk made his official comic debut on SNL (and it wasn’t thatcringey!), and President Biden waived COVID vaccine patents to boost its availability around the world. 

Opensignal&nbsp;is out with its latest studies on&nbsp;5G coverage and performance in the US. Through the first part of 2021, T-Mobile is still leading the 5G race when it comes to availability and average speeds. But AT&amp;T and Verizon were able to outperform the Uncarrier with their 5G games and video experiences. And a fascinating finding [&hellip;]

Latest OpenSignal report details just how rare mmWave 5G coverage still is - 9to5Mac

Ethiopia receives two bids for two telecoms operating licences

Gov. Mills announces broadband expansion plan

FCC to begin $50 broadband subsidy program May 12

New York requires $15 broadband for poor people, promptly gets sued by ISPs

FCC approves SpaceX change to its Starlink network, a win despite objections from Amazon and others

SpaceX Cleared to Use Starlink Satellite Internet on Starship Rocket

Amazon’s Bid to Recover JEDI Cloud Computing Contract Stays Alive

AWS on track to be bigger than IBM by Christmas, once Kyndryl is spun out

Cloud gaming service Shadow taken over by OVHcloud founder

Facebook Says Quest 2 Continues To Sell Beyond Expectations

Facebook acquires the developers of VR military simulator Onward

Drone delivery start-up Manna raises $25m ahead of major expansion

Girl Scouts of Virginia Skyline Council launch cookie delivery by drone

Toyota is buying Lyft’s autonomous car division for $550 million

We’ve made it to May! Or as I like to call it, the Friday of the year. Flowers are blooming, Summer’s around the corner (for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, at least), Vitamin D stores are steadily recharging, and an increasing number of us are privileged to have access to COVID vaccines.

Verizon expands 5G to more cities 

Telstra and TPG spend hundreds of millions on mmWave spectrum | ZDNet

What happened at Rogers? Day-long outage is over, but questions remain | CBC News

Elon Musk's SpaceX is close to winning FCC approval to fly more than 4,000 Starlink satellites in a lower orbit. But rivals say it could increase collision risks.

China is to oversee the construction and operation of a national satellite internet megaconstellation by coordinating the country’s major space actors. 

China is developing plans for a 13,000-satellite megaconstellation - SpaceNews

Why Games Developers Are ‘Fighting’ Internet Lag

Blacknut hands on - "Could be the solution for mobile & desktop cloud streaming"

Oculus Quest Updates May Aim VR For Chromebook Market

New rules allowing small drones to fly over people in U.S. take effect

What's next for U.S. drone regulations? Drone industry figure Lisa Ellman and Arjun Garg, former chief counsel for the FAA, comment.

What's Next for U.S. Drone Regulations? - DRONELIFE

Orca AI, which puts computer vision onto cargo ships, raises $13M Series A funding

It’s been a mellow week in the telecommunications space, but we’re here to break it down nevertheless! 

Edge Roundup: April 19 — April 25, 2021

Rogers Expands 5G Network in the West and Ontario and Powers Canada’s First 5G Drone Flight

Verizon signs deals with Crown Castle and SBA Communications 

Microsoft doubles down on cloud healthcare business with $16 billion Nuance buy

How Bad Is Your Internet? FCC Asks the Public to Use Its Speed Test App

Victory for municipal broadband as Wash. state lawmakers end restrictions

Televisa Surges After Forging $4.8 Billion Univision Deal

Here are the 7 big space companies in the race to build a global satellite-internet network

Fortnite-maker Epic completes $1B funding round

Facebook brings software subscriptions to the Oculus Quest

Domino's Pizza pilots driverless delivery with Nuro autonomous car in Houston

Intel’s Mobileye will launch a fully driverless delivery service in 2023

Cruise to Operate Autonomous Vehicle in Dubai

Chinese autonomous vehicle startup WeRide scores permit to test driverless cars in San Jose

Welcome back to another edition of the #EdgeRoundup! Let’s dive straight in to last week’s headlines:

Edge Roundup: April 12 — April 18, 2021

Supreme Court sides with Google in Oracle’s API copyright case

Supreme Court rules in Google's favor in copyright dispute with Oracle over Android software

Verizon adds more repeaters to its 5G repertoire

AT&T launches 5G Innovation Studio with Ericsson, Nokia

T‑Mobile’s Next Un‑carrier Move: #5GforAll | T‑Mobile Newsroom

Verizon CTO compares fiber to fixed wireless access

Lumen brags that its Quantum Fiber is better than wireless or cable

Elon Musk's Starlink internet exceeds 200 Mbps in new tests

SpaceX is spending $1,500 to make each Starlink terminal but customers will only be charged $499, its president says

SpaceX's Starlink: Overhyped and underpowered to meet broadband needs of Rural America, say analysts

Canada's Telesat takes on Musk and Bezos in space race to provide fast broadband

Monkey MindPong

Nvidia’s latency-reducing tech is live for all Overwatch players with the company’s GPUs

I made $22 Virtual Reality Gloves.

Tony Stark-wannabe creates haptic VR gloves for only $22 in parts

Microsoft is now submerging servers into liquid baths

In a 6-2 ruling, the US Supreme Court overturned a previous federal circuit decision deeming that Google’s use of elements of Oracle API constituted copyright infringement. 

Kenya becomes the second African country to launch 5G

Leveraging the 5G Network to Wirelessly Power IoT Devices

this energy-harvesting card can turn 5G networks into wireless power grids

Zededa, a startup developing an orchestration platform for edge and IoT devices, nabbed an extension to its previous funding round.

Edge computing orchestration startup Zededa raises $12.5M

Samsung to double midband 5G radio bandwidth to 400 MHz

Verizon Communications has tapped Dreamscape Immersive to make virtual reality experiences in rich environments for 5G networks

Verizon taps Dreamscape Immersive for VR content for 5G

Microsoft earns contract worth up to $21.9 billion to make AR devices for the US Army

Quest 2 May Be Selling Thrice as Fast as the Best Selling VR Headset, PSVR

The Virtual Production of The Mandalorian, Season Two

Jon Favreau on The Lion King, Beyoncé & New Star Wars Series

The Mandalorian Making-Of Shows Oculus Quest 2 Used

AT&T lobbies against nationwide fiber, says 10Mbps uploads are good enough

Volvo and Aurora team up on fully autonomous trucks for North America

Polaris and Optimus Ride are co-developing "fully autonomous" low-speed shuttles

Order on an app from any one of a number of participating stores, and track the progress of your Flytrex drone delivery right to your door.

Flytrex Drone Delivery to Your Backyard - DRONELIFE

File this under “essential goods,” right next to COVID vaccines

New Cupcake Drone Delivery Service

Google ditches Mobile World Congress 2021, the world’s biggest phone show

Welcome back to another roundup of industry updates! This week served up major military contracts, a controversial fight against fiber, and another big push towards autonomous trucking. You’ll have to read on: 

Tech CEOs grilled over role in Capitol attack as protesters mock them with giant cutouts

Social media's great misinformation clean-up act

AT&T, Verizon hedge on 5G core timelines

Comcast investing $1 billion over 10 years in internet equity programs, with Chicago at the center of effort to bridge the digital divide

Akamai hits huge new 200 Tbps web traffic peak

The ‘Frankencloud’ model is our biggest security risk

Microsoft in talks to buy Discord messaging platform - sources

Why Microsoft wants Discord

Samsung’s new partnership offers another glimpse of a drone delivery future — in only one Irish town

Self-driving truck startup TuSimple files to go public

Official: Audi Won't Build Another Combustion Engine

We’re back at it with another week of tech news! Not much new to report, especially considering that the biggest story of the week was a cargo ship blocking the Suez Canal. 

Edge Roundup: March 22 — March 28, 2021

Nokia partners Google, Microsoft, Amazon to develop 5G solutions, use cases - ET Telecom

Verizon plans on price-gouging for faster 5G speeds

Telenet introduces Ericsson, Nokia, and Google Cloud as partners for the rollout of its 5G Network, the Engine for Future Mobile Innovation

Rogers-Shaw deal puts feds in a corner on dream of a fourth wireless competitor -  BNN Bloomberg

Nvidia is doubling the price of its GeForce Now cloud gaming service for new users

Eve Online coming to browsers thanks to cloud gaming with Eve Anywhere

Tencent, Sony, Square Enix invest in cloud gaming company Ubitus

Autonomous Drones Proved Themselves in Army Ammo Resupply Tests. Now, the XVIII Airborne Wants In

Ontario partnership to test first-of-its-kind autonomous truck technology

Chuck Schumer Has An Audacious Electric Car Proposal

Chuck Schumer wants to replace every gas car in America with an electric vehicle

Schneider Electric, Wattsense launch IoT offering for building digitalization

We’re keeping this week’s Roundup short and sweet—so let’s dive into the latest happenings in the broader telco world!

Edge Roundup: March 15 — March 21, 2021

“a bit rich calling cows stupid, when it's the humans that have daylight savings”

Daylight Saving Time - How Is This Still A Thing?: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Plans for an in-person MWC persist as Sony, Nokia and Ericsson bow out | Engadget

T-Mobile capex in 2021

T-Mobile CEO: Warren Buffett 'sees the value' in 5G

Verizon, T-Mobile get ready to rumble with cable

AT&T promises fiber-to-the-home expansion in 90 metro areas this year

Schools look skyward for internet, building their own cell towers

How Roblox Became A $30 Billion Company

How indie game makers turned Roblox into a $30 billion company

What do Stadia's struggles mean for game streaming?

Report: Nearly 10,000 People at Facebook Are Working on AR & VR

Facebook Already Working on Quest 3 & 4, Zuckerberg Talks Key Features for Future Headsets

StonX Cookie Body-Tracking Demo 2

Swedish teen's start-up brings us the most affordable VR full-body tracking ever

FAA's final drone rules start taking effect April 21st | Engadget

Waymo simulated real-world crashes to prove its self-driving cars can prevent deaths

Edge Roundup: June 7 — June 13, 2021

2021-06-14

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