The Verge

MAY 19, 2021

Microsoft is finally retiring Internet Explorer next year, after more than 25 years. The aging web browser has largely been unused by most consumers for years, but Microsoft is putting the final nail in the Internet Explorer coffin on June 15th, 2022, by retiring it in favor of Microsoft Edge. “We Photo: Fairfax Media via Getty Images.

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GeekWire

MAY 14, 2024

Project Kuiper is Amazon’s $10 billion effort to build and launch more than 3,000 satellites that will offer high-speed internet access to tens of millions of people around the world. Amazon Photo) Project Kuiper is far behind SpaceX’s Starlink network when it comes to providing high-speed internet access from low Earth orbit.

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Network World

DECEMBER 17, 2024

ESA expects to launch the first IRIS satellites in 2029, and SpaceRISE, a consortium formed by satellite operators Eutelsat, Hispasat, and SES, said it expects to begin providing service in early 2030. IRIS wont be launching into a vacuum: There are several other players already offering satellite internet service. billion ($11.1

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GeekWire

JULY 13, 2021

Facebook has struck a deal to have more than a dozen of its wireless internet experts move over to Amazon to work on its Project Kuiper satellite broadband network, The Information reported today. A schematic shows the design for the phased-array antennas to be used for Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite broadband network.

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Network World

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Post-quantum cryptography Gartner predicts that by 2029, advances in quantum computing will make most conventional asymmetric cryptography unsafe to use. Asymmetric encryption is in almost all software, billions of devices worldwide, and most of the communications over the internet.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Project Kuiper is designed to provide affordable broadband internet access from above for tens of millions of people around the world who are underserved. The rest would have to be launched by 2029. .” The prototype satellites were launched into low Earth orbit from Florida on Oct.

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GeekWire

MARCH 3, 2022

There are plenty of astronomers who worry that the thousands of satellites that are being launched into low Earth orbit for global broadband internet access will cast a pall over their scientific observations. By 2029, more than 5,000 satellites could be above the horizon at any given time, according to NSF’s NOIRLab.

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