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Come Home With Memories, Not a Shocking Phone Bill

Baua Electric

There are two major options: You can get a data plan directly through your phone company or you can swap out your phone’s SIM card, a small chip that stores data about you and your carrier — on newer phones, you can use an app that does the same thing. Some exceptions: Cuba and the Maldives. Exceptions: Cuba and the Maldives.

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SpaceX preparing for third rideshare launch with dozens of small satellites

Teslarati

One week after SpaceX and the world’s first orbital launch of 2022, the company is a few days out from its second launch of the year – this time carrying dozens of small satellites for a variety of rideshare customers. Fairing recovery north of Cuba ~606km downrange. Let's do this! Planet (x11!) Booster LZ1 landing.

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Ham Radio Jamming, Wireless Industry Battlegrounds, and IoT in Space

Cars That Think

Companies experimented with new kinds of satellite networks, new ways of building cell towers, and new ways of creating holograms. Here are the highlights of what went down in telecom this year: Cuba Jamming Ham Radio? Companies will likely include NIST’s cybersecurity requirements in all of their devices, whether selling to the U.S.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

Focusing on private sector delivery, they argued that developing countries needed to ensure proper regulatory environments to create demand for technologies and that they needed to ensure intellectual property protection and enforcement to ensure that companies felt comfortable licensing technology.