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Cable cut blamed for global four-hour internet disruption • The Register

Google Cloud and other internet service providers are recovering from network issues attributed to a network cable cut that began in the Middle East and Asia just before 0700 PDT (1400 UTC). The cable, Asia-Africa-Europe-1 (AAE-1), is a 25,000km submarine cable operated by a telecom consortium. It connects South East Asia to Europe by way […]

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Faster cable internet speeds are coming, even if you don’t really need them

Houstonians are lucky that there is competition for home internet service in most parts of the city. It has long been a battle between traditional providers such as Comcast and AT&T, but now there are newcomers offering wireless residential internet, including Verizon and T-Mobile. Cable companies, which for some time have been the top dog […]

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Technology

Cable TV Is the New Landline

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. Here is a collection of past columns. People have been predicting the death of cable TV for a long time, but this really might be it. As recently as a decade ago, nearly all Americans — more than 85 percent of U.S. households — paid for […]

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A tweaked display cable might give your next laptop slightly better battery life

Don’t you love standards? I do, for the most part, particularly when they’re fixing things, and the new VESA Embedded DisplayPort 1.5 (or eDP 1.5 for short) looks likely to do that in future fancy-screened laptops. It’s promising more power savings with adaptive-sync screens, OLED panels, and displays that come with their own embedded memory […]

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Cox New Orleans customers vent ire over slow return of cable and internet service | Business News

Cox Communications’ customers in the New Orleans metro area are no strangers to annoying service outages, but two weeks after Hurricane Ida rolled through, some of those still without cable television and internet access have reached new levels of ire. Anne Timmons-Harris, a jewelry designer with a shop in the French Quarter, said Saturday that […]

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