2022-07-28
Expensive internet in Africa hurting digital economy growth - “The Worldwide Mobile Pricing 2022 report, which surveyed 233 countries, shows that five of the 10 most expensive countries to buy mobile data in the world are in...Africa.” https://techcrunch.com/... via @techcrunch
TechCrunch
Worldwide Mobile Pricing 2022 survey of mobile data prices: five of the world's 10 most expensive places are in sub-Saharan Africa; Israel is the cheapest
A new report detailing the cost of mobile data in different markets across the world, bears the evidence of why internet use … Source: Cable.co.uk .
2021-11-29
India tells public to shun Musk-backed Starlink until it gets licence - “A government statement...[said] Starlink had been told to comply with regulations and refrain from ‘booking/rendering the satellite internet services in India with immediate effect’.” https://www.reuters.com/...
Reuters
Indian government tells Starlink to stop “booking/rendering the satellite internet service” as it does not have a license to operate in the country
2021-07-31
“In other words, Trump's gambit accomplished what the Chinese government never could: aligning private companies' incentives with the state's goal of economic self-sufficiency.” https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ ...
Foreign Affairs
How US sanctions forced Chinese companies to develop key tech themselves, aligning the companies' incentives with China's goal of economic self-sufficiency
In 2016, AlphaGo, a computer program developed by machine learning experts in London, beat the world's top players of the classical Chinese board game Go.
2021-07-21
Not long ago GaN was a “mere laboratory curiosity. Then the Pentagon got interested... Beginning around 2000, funding from Darpa,...drove the experimentation required to overcome many of the hurdles to its commercialization...” https://www.wsj.com/...
Wall Street Journal
A look at gallium nitride chips, which could replace silicon chips in a growing range of electronics and be produced in conventional fabs, unlike graphene chips
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @wsj , @amcafee , @raju , @wsj , and @gyude_moore Tweets: @wsj : Meet gallium, the weird metal that melts in your hand and is powe...