Month: September 2021

Alphabet’s Project Taara, which uses light beams to deliver internet, says it transmitted nearly 700TB of data across the Congo River over 20 days (Richard Lawler/The Verge)

Richard Lawler / The Verge: Alphabet’s Project Taara, which uses light beams to deliver internet, says it transmitted nearly 700TB of data across the Congo River over 20 days  —  The 20Gbps Free Space Optical Communications tech for Project Taara was originally part of Project Loon  —  In January, Google’s parent company …

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Oppo/OnePlus merger is getting more real by the day

Credit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Oppo is shedding 20% of its staff in China reportedly due to staff redundancies. This comes after its mid-year merger with OnePlus. Workers from its ColorOS and wearables teams are mostly affected. When the Oppo/OnePlus merger was announced earlier this year, fans were worried about the potential negative consequences.

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So, Why Are Hyperlinks Blue, Anyway?

You’ve no doubt noticed by now that while some links are gold and/or bold, most links out there are blue, especially on web pages of yore. But why? the TL;DR answer is that the Mosaic browser, released in early 1993 used blue links, and since the browser was widely distributed, blue just became the norm.

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