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Google has been touting the myriad innovations in the first building wholly designed and built by the web giant, even moving workers in to focus on its highest-profile project: generative artificial intelligence. But, some say they wish the innovations had included decent Wi-Fi.The “Bay View” building, located on the Alphabet unit’s Mountain View, California, headquarters, has been plagued for months by inoperable or, at best, spotty Wi-Fi, according to six people familiar with the matter.Its recliner-laden collaborative…

Image: nikkimeel (Shutterstock)If you’ve got a spotty internet connection, Spotify’s got you covered. The music streaming service is apparently testing a playlist called “Your Offline Mix” that will serve you up your favorite recently played tunes when your connection is rough.Video Chat - From Sci-Fi to Sci-FactSpotify CEO Daniel Ek shared a screenshot to Twitter of the potential Your Offline Mix interface. The description for the playlist in the screenshot reads “A mix of your recently played songs for when the vibe is…

California’s complex system of water rights took shape starting in the mid-1800s, when settlers saw the state’s water as abundant and free for the taking — a time when a Gold Rush prospector could stake claim to river flows simply by nailing a notice to a tree.Today, California’s oldest and most senior water rights — called riparian and pre-1914 rights — have been passed along to thousands of agricultural landowners, irrigation districts and urban water suppliers that claim control of roughly one-third of the water that…

A streak of SpaceX StarLink satellites passes over an old stone house in Kansas.Photo: Reed Hoffmann (AP)Starlink internet users experienced an outage on Tuesday that spanned across different parts of the world, from the U.S. to New Zealand, Mexico and the Netherlands.The global outage lasted for a few hours for most users, but connectivity returned with a “Degraded Service” message that meant it wasn’t fully operational. Some users on Reddit also reported that their connection kept going from degraded to offline. “Our…

Source: Jaclyn Kilani / iMore Before I go into my experience with the rockspace Wi-Fi 6 AX1800 system, let me give you a little background. I live in Colombia, South America, where let's just say the internet technology is not exactly state-of-the-art. It works perfectly well most of the time, but it's not fiber optic. One of the biggest problems I have with my home internet is the terrible range of the Wi-Fi. In Colombia, many families live in small apartments or homes that are interconnected and built very close…