Communications

Trans and gender-diverse youth across the country are scared, struggling and dying, and our duty is to address this crisis. We know that gender-affirming health care improves the health and well-being of transgender and gender-diverse youth. Despite this, several states, including Texas, Florida and Alabama are doing their best to make lifesaving gender-affirming care illegal. At the same time, the COVID pandemic has shown us that health care isn’t limited by geography; many health systems have strengthened their…

Today, customers have more choices and louder voices when it comes to communication service providers. They increasingly view communications service providers as commodities, and the industry is learning that they need to step up to attract and retain customers.This is according to the latest communications industry report from Salesforce. To help providers understand how customer expectations have evolved and what's required to succeed amidst the changing industry landscape, Salesforce surveyed 500 industry leaders and…

More than five crore complaints were received against telecom operators related to mobile services during 2021-22, with about 54 per cent of them against Airtel, followed by Vodafone Idea, Parliament was informed on Friday. Minister of State for Communications Devusinh Chauhan, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, gave data on complaints received against various telecom service providers related to mobile telephony during 2021-22, as per which the number for Airtel stood at 2,99,68,519, and for Vodafone Idea at…

“Hello, we’ve been trying to reach you about your car’s extended warranty.” After years of seemingly unstoppable scam robocalls, this phrase is embedded into the minds of many of us. Last month the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced it was ordering phone providers to block any calls coming from a known car warranty robocall scam, offering hope that U.S. phone users may hear that all-too-familiar automated voice a little less often. But there is more work required to crack down on these calls. After all,…

A Texas jury on Tuesday found Charter Communications Inc. liable for $7 billion in punitive damages after finding the cable company responsible for one of its employees who robbed and killed a customer three years ago. In 2019, 83-year-old Betty Thomas was killed by Roy Holden Jr., one of Charter’s cable technicians. Mr. Holden had performed a service call at Mrs. Thomas’s home, and when he returned the following day, he stole credit cards from Mrs. Thomas’s purse and then stabbed her…

Before quantum computers and quantum networks can fulfil their huge potential, scientists have got several difficult problems to overcome – but a new study outlines a potential solution to one of these problems.  As we've seen in recent research, the silicon material that our existing classical computing components are made out of has shown potential for storing quantum bits, too.These quantum bits – or qubits – are key to next-level quantum computing performance, and they come in a variety of types.Silicon qubits are…

Jay Carney, the top policy and communications executive at Amazon and one-time White House spokesman, has been named the head of policy at Airbnb, marking another high-profile departure for Amazon as it faces a shifting consumer landscape and heightened regulatory scrutiny.Carney, who served as the press secretary for President Barack Obama, will join Airbnb's executive team and work with co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky, the company said in a Friday blog post.“Jay has worked at the highest levels of both government and…

NASA is set to test a laser technology in space. This mission is aimed at speeding up space communications. The Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) will be launched on December 4 after a two-year delay. The technology will be launched into space aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket during the Space Test Program Satellite-6 (STPSat-6) mission by the Department of Defense. The mission is expected to be launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.Despite the delay, investigators suggest…

NASA is set to test its new laser communication technology this week, which is aimed at speeding up space communications. Also called optical communications because they use light to send information, it will allow 10-100 times more data transmission back to Earth when compared to the traditional radio frequencies. The space agency will launch the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) on December 5 and has set up a live coverage for the test. It will be broadcast on various platforms, including NASA…

NASA's new laser technology is finally space-bound. After much anticipation and a two-year delay, the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration (LCRD) was launched today (December 8) at 5:19am EST. According to NASA's social media updates, the LCRD was launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on an Atlas V rocket of the United Launch Alliance. NASA also explained why this new technology was important. It said, "LCRD will showcase the unique capabilities of optical communications which increases bandwidth…