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5G: everything you need to know

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge 5G internet has been one of the biggest buzzwords in the tech world over the past few years. As the next generation of cellular technology, the faster speeds and lower latencies it offers promise to change everything from your phone to home internet to fields like self-driving cars

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Google Maps to show COVID-19 related travel alerts and local restrictions, as well as crowdedness predictions (Ramesh Nagarajan/The Keyword)

Ramesh Nagarajan / The Keyword: Google Maps to show COVID-19 related travel alerts and local restrictions, as well as crowdedness predictions  —  Product Management Director, Google Maps  —  Getting from A to B can be more complicated these days.  Because of COVID-19, it’s increasingly important to know how crowded … Google Maps to show COVID-19

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MIT researchers have designed a chip with tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses called memristors that could effectively recall images in high detail (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: MIT researchers have designed a chip with tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses called memristors that could effectively recall images in high detail  —  Researchers at MIT have published a new paper that describes a new type of artificial brain synapse which offers performance improvements vs … MIT researchers have

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How supporters of Black Lives Matter have used tactics such as hijacking hashtags and filing DMCA complaints to protect protesters and derail racist rhetoric (Aja Romano/Vox)

Aja Romano / Vox: How supporters of Black Lives Matter have used tactics such as hijacking hashtags and filing DMCA complaints to protect protesters and derail racist rhetoric  —  A K-pop fan holds a photo of a member of BTS at Rockefeller Plaza on February 21, 2020.  Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images How supporters of Black Lives

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