AT&T and Verizon may have to delay 5G deployments another two weeks over airline safety fears

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US officials have asked AT&T and Verizon to further delay new 5G deployments so that the Federal Aviation Administration can have more time to determine where they might interfere with airlines. US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and FAA Administrator Steve Dickson sent a letter to the CEOs of the two telecoms on Friday requesting a delay of “no more than two weeks,” according to Reuters.

AT&T and Verizon had already delayed these deployments by a month over regulators’ concerns and planned to start the rollout on January 5th as a result. The two telecoms now tell Insider they are reviewing the latest request for a further delay. Buttigieg and Dickson write that, even with an additional delay, they expect 5G deployment will still…

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Author: Jacob Kastrenakes

10 Day Around Taiwan Roadtrip

  Submitted by: Bianca   From: No Map Nomads   Read more: Click here for full post  Overview: We took our van Delica, our dog Thula, and some vanlife packing essentials and took off for our round island Taiwan road trip. We gave ourselves 10 days to drive around the whole country of Taiwan. In planning our trip, …

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Winnie-the-Pooh and around 400,000 early sound recordings enter public domain

Cover art for A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh.

A. A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh, Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, and other books, movies, and compositions from 1926 enter into the public domain today in the US. The works are now “free for all to copy, share, and build upon,” according to Duke’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, which tracks which copyrighted materials will become public each year.

This year, the usual list of books, movies, and compositions comes with a sizable bonus: a trove of around 400,000 early sound recordings. A recent law, the 2018 Music Modernization Act, standardized how early sound recordings are handled under federal copyright law. As part of that, it set today as the date that copyright protections would end for “recordings first published…

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Author: Jacob Kastrenakes