Communications

The Rich Communications (RCS) feature has been available in One UI for Samsung’s Messages app for some time now. The option is somewhat hidden inside the Settings app, but today we’ll tell you all you need to know to enable RCS and enhance your messaging experience. At least, where available. More on that later. First things first, what is the Rich Communications feature in One UI, and why should you enable it? In short, Rich Communications (RCS) is a protocol that aims to replace traditional SMS messages with a more…

OTTAWA—Canada’s Rogers Communications Inc. said it had restored internet and wireless services and that its networks and systems are close to fully operational, following a roughly daylong outage starting early Friday morning that hit over 10 million customers and hampered electronic-banking and debit-card transactions across the country. The company said the outage was the result of an equipment-maintenance update that went awry. Rogers said…

The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, is a CubeSat that will fly a unique orbit around the Moon intended for NASA’s future Artemis lunar outpost Gateway. Its six-month mission will help launch a new era of deep space exploration. Credit: NASA Ames Research CenterMission Team Determines Cause of NASA’s CAPSTONE Communications IssuesAfter its launch on June 28, CAPSTONE orbited Earth attached to Rocket Lab’s Photon upper stage, which maneuvered it into…

While we haven't found any evidence of alien life yet, that doesn't mean it's not out there, beyond our reach. Now, a team of researchers has put together a mathematical model showing aliens could potentially be communicating across space – via quantum physics.  Efforts are well underway to make quantum communications a reality here on Earth. The idea is that quantum mechanics provide certain properties that would make information transfer inherently faster and more secure than regular systems... if we can get it to…

An illustration of the CAPSTONE spacecraft during its elliptical orbit around the Moon.Illustration: NASAAfter going MIA for nearly 24 hours, NASA’s CAPSTONE probe finally reestablished contact with ground controllers. The microwave-sized satellite is currently en route to the Moon where it will test a unique orbital configuration for an upcoming lunar space station. Ground controllers successfully restored communication with the spacecraft on Wednesday at 9:26 a.m. ET, when the operations team began receiving signals…

It's been a wild few days for NASA's CAPSTONE mission. Following the lunar satellite's successful launch from Rocket Lab's site on New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula, ground control lost contact with the spacecraft shortly after it escaped Earth's gravity well and separated from its Electron rocket carrier on Monday. But after nearly a full day in the dark, NASA announced on Wednesday that its engineers have managed to reopen a line to the 55-pound satellite. While the situation was concerning, NASA had accounted for just…

On a rainy afternoon earlier this year, I logged in to my OpenAI account and typed a simple instruction for the company’s artificial intelligence algorithm, GPT-3: Write an academic thesis in 500 words about GPT-3 and add scientific references and citations inside the text. As it started to generate text, I stood in awe. Here was novel content written in academic language, with well-grounded references cited in the right places and in relation to the right context. It looked like any other introduction to a fairly good…

Katie Roof / Bloomberg: FrontApp, which offers the Front customer communications tool, raised $65M led by Salesforce and Battery at a $1.7B post-money valuation, up from $859M in 2020 — Customer communication software maker FrontApp Inc. is now valued at $1.7 billion after receiving $65 million in financing led by Salesforce Ventures and Battery Ventures. Katie Roof / Bloomberg: FrontApp, which offers the Front customer communications tool, raised $65M led by Salesforce and Battery at a $1.7B…

People have been relying on Zoom more than usual with the Coronavirus pandemic. Now, it’s pretty much become a household name. Even though things aren’t as extreme as two years ago, the company is still improving the app experience. Zoom just introduced its Zoom One subscription that gives you a bunch of additional features.This is going to be a paid subscription, so it will definitely turn some people off from it. However, if your business really relies on video conferencing, then you might want to consider it.The Zoom…

Elon Musk's SpaceX has successfully launched a satellite into orbit that will be operated by the Egyptian company Nilesat, in its 23rd rocket launch and landing of 2022.A two-stage Falcon 9 rocket carried Nilesat 301 to a geosynchronous transfer orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Wednesday at 5:04 pm ET, the company posted on its website.This was the seventh launch and landing of this booster.It had previously supported the launch of two GPS satellites, two private…