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Apple, Google raise new concerns by yanking Russian app
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Big Tech companies that operate around the globe have long promised to obey local laws and to protect civil rights while doing business. But when Apple and Google capitulated to Russian demands and removed a political-opposition app from their local app stores, it...
Town of Bristol launches high-speed internet service
BRISTOL, N.H. (AP) — After years of planning, the New Hampshire town of Bristol launched its new high-speed internet service Thursday. The Bristol Broadband Now network “opens a lot of doors for our business community, enables opportunities like telehealth for...
Internet funding rule could favor rural areas over cities
Cities and urban counties across the U.S. are raising concerns that a recent rule from President Joe Biden's administration could preclude them from tapping into $350 billion of coronavirus relief aid to expand high-speed internet connections. Biden has set a goal of...
Governor: Feds contribute $128M to high-speed internet
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The federal government is providing more than $128 million in American Rescue Plan funds to expand broadband in Maine, Gov. Janet Mills said. “This pandemic has laid bare the dire need for strong connectivity in every part of Maine, and this...
Jan. 6 riot defendant returned to jail for using internet
IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday ordered a prominent participant in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol to return to jail after he was caught accessing the internet to watch false conspiracy theories about the presidential election. U.S. District...
Editorial Roundup: Texas
Houston Chronicle. Aug. 29, 2021. Editorial: Four years later, has Houston learned anything from Hurricane Harvey? As you read this, Hurricane Ida is lumbering ever closer in the Gulf of Mexico. As with Houston’s near-miss with Hurricane Laura last...
High-speed internet work begins for remote Nevada community
SPRING CREEK, Nev. (AP) — High-speed fiber-optic internet is finally making its way to a remote northeast Nevada community — brought by a company that delivered telegraph service to the area in 1889 and telephone seven years later. The Elko Daily Free Press reports...
WVa schools, libraries receiving funds for tech upgrades
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia schools and libraries will receive $48 million for internet connection-related upgrades through the American Rescue Plan. Sen. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, said Wednesday that an application period for the Emergency...
SC virus money ideas: I-26 widening, body cameras, broadband
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina should spend its share of federal COVID-19 relief money on needs as diverse as statewide broadband internet, body cameras for all police and jumpstarting the widening of Interstate 26 between Charleston and Columbia, according to a special group put...
Iowa man charged in Capitol riot seeks to avoid jail return
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man charged with taking part in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has asked a judge not to send him back to jail even though he was caught violating the terms of his pretrial release by accessing the internet. Douglas Jensen's...
