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SpaceX Gets Approval To Sell Starlink In India(2025-05-09 05:00:06)

schwit1 shares a report from Behind The Black: Almost immediately after India's government issued this week new tightened regulations for allowing private satellite constellations to sell their services in India, it also apparently completed negotiations with SpaceX to allow it to sell Starlink in I...
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NOAA Retires Extreme Weather Database(2025-05-09 00:00:04)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNN: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday its well-known "billion-dollar weather and climate disasters" database "will be retired," a move that will make it next to impossible for the public to track the cost of extreme weath...
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Apple Is Planning Smart Glasses With and Without AR(2025-05-08 20:00:10)

According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple has "made progress" on a chip for a product that could rival the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. The company is also reportedly working on glasses that use augmented reality. The Verge reports: The chip is apparently based on the chips Apple uses for the Apple...
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Microsoft Effectively Raises High-End Surface Prices By Discontinuing Base Models(2025-05-08 15:00:03)

An anonymous reader shares a report: When Microsoft announced new Surface devices earlier this week, we noted that there wasn't a lot of daylight between the starting prices of the new but lower-end devices ($799 for the 12-inch Surface Pro, $899 for the 13-inch Surface Laptop) and the starting pric...
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Ghost Students Are Creating an 'Agonizing' Problem For California Colleges(2025-05-08 10:00:08)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from SFGATE: When the pandemic upended the world of higher education, Robin Pugh, a professor at City College of San Francisco, began to see one puzzling problem in her online courses: Not everyone was a real student. Of the 40 students enrolled in her popular int...
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