SpaceX has reportedly held talks with EchoStar about acquiring Boost Mobile or gaining access to its network, potentially giving Starlink a shortcut toward becoming a full-fledged U.S. mobile carrier. Engadget reports: According to Washington Post's sources, the deal could look like SpaceX acquiring Boost Mobile outright or gaining access to its cell network, which is leased from AT&T and T-Mobile. There could be a major hitch with the deal though, since SpaceX's potential mobile service would need the green light from those major mobile carriers, according to the report. The Washington Post also reported that major cell companies, which include AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, have already turned down Musk down for access to its cell networks in order to launch a separate SpaceX service. Last month, SpaceX reportedly held talks with Crown Castle to access at least 80,000 cellular tower sites across the U.S. as it prepares to launch Starlink Mobile. "We will be building out our terrestrial networks so there's broad-based connectivity anywhere that SpaceX and Starlink are allowed to operate," Musk said during SpaceX's earnings call this week. Satellite launches plus spectrum acquisition "will pave the way for Starlink Mobile to become a major mobile carrier in the US," he said.
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Jack Grealish will do well to get back into the Everton starting lineup when he returns to the squad – as David Moyes’s side are doing just fine without him.
Newcastle were condemned to a second defeat in five days by Moyes’s young team, with a goal from Thierno Barry giving Everton victory against 10 men at St James’ Park.
Continue reading...Julian Fellowes’ high-society period drama has, somehow, picked up Emmys and reached its fourth series. Poor Meryl Streep must feel so awkward watching her daughter Louisa Jacobson in such a uniformly awful show
A doctor with a fully qualified moustache races up a carriageway towards an immaculate stately home. “I fear we should have sent for you sooner!” says the lady who greets him on the doorstep as the screams of a woman in drug-free labour rattle the windows in their frames. Oh, ya think? is not Dr Moustache’s reply.
When this many cliches assemble so quickly, it can only mean one thing: Brownstone Abbey – AKA Julian Fellowes’ Revenge, AKA What Did We Do to Deserve This?, AKA The Gilded Age if you insist on its official title – is back for a fourth and, no one has said let alone promised, final season.
Continue reading...CUPERTINO (ANP) - Het Amerikaanse technologiebedrijf Apple heeft in het afgelopen kwartaal zijn hoogste omzet en winst ooit geboekt. De omzet kwam uit op 114,5 miljard dollar, een stijging van 12 procent ten opzichte van een jaar eerder. Dat is boven de verwachtingen van marktkenners.
De omzet uit de verkoop van iPhones steeg in het afgelopen kwartaal tot 57,8 miljard dollar, eveneens boven verwachting. De nettowinst bedroeg op 30,7 miljard dollar, tegen 27,5 miljard dollar een jaar eerder.
Het bedrijf presenteerde maandag de eerste resultaten onder topman John Ternus, die op 1 september Tim Cook opvolgde. In het voorgaande kwartaal gingen de omzet en winst van Apple ook al flink omhoog, vooral dankzij gestegen verkopen van iPhones.
WASHINGTON (ANP) - De regering-Trump moet niet langer van Californië eisen om enkele duizenden stembiljetten in die staat niet mee te tellen bij de Congresverkiezingen. Dat heeft een federale rechter in Washington, James Boasberg, besloten. Volgens de rechter is het niet aan de regering om "eenzijdig haar voorkeursprocedures" op te leggen aan staten. In de Verenigde Staten zijn staten grotendeels zelf verantwoordelijk voor het organiseren van de stembusgang.
De regering-Trump heeft in meerdere staten op basis van zelfgemaakte lijsten geprobeerd aanhangig te maken dat vermeende niet-burgers stembiljetten zouden hebben ontvangen. Onder meer Californië heeft die inmenging aangevochten. "Californië mag zelf kiezen welke procedures het gebruikt om te verifiëren of geregistreerde stemmers staatsburgerschap hebben", zegt Boasberg nu over die pogingen.
Eerder maandag maakte de regering-Trump bekend een andere zaak rond de Californische stembiljetten op te spelen naar het Hooggerechtshof.
NEW YORK (ANP) - De aandelenbeurzen in New York zijn maandag overwegend lager gesloten, ondanks een scherpe daling van de olieprijzen. Vooral techaandelen stonden onder druk door groeiende zorgen bij beleggers over de hoge investeringen in kunstmatige intelligentie. Beurshandelaren deden het verder voorzichtig aan in aanloop naar de Amerikaanse midterms op dinsdag.
De Dow-Jonesindex, die minder gevoelig is voor koersbewegingen bij techaandelen, sloot 0,4 procent hoger op 51.983,98 punten. De breder samengestelde S&P 500-index zakte 0,5 procent tot 7541,40 punten en de Nasdaq verloor ruim 1 procent op 25.164,32
Op Wall Street waren alle ogen maandag gericht op technologieconcern Apple, dat na de slotbel zijn kwartaalcijfers bekendmaakt. De verwachtingen zijn hooggespannen. Beleggers zijn bang dat het bedrijf veel last gaat hebben van de stijgende kosten van geheugenchips. Vrijdag aan het slot van de handel haalde Apple AI-chipconcern Nvidia nog in als waardevolste bedrijf ter wereld. Aandelen Apple werden maandag 1,5 procent minder waard.
The next time you see a software engineer shaping silent words with their mouth, you may have to think twice before asking if they need a mental health day – they might just be wearing a pair of smart glasses that let them talk to their computer without uttering a sound. Subvocal is a Y Combinator-backed startup aiming to produce these glasses, and already has working prototypes to show off in YouTube videos, including one with YC partner Dave Lieb trying them out and being impressed enough to offer funding. The headset isn’t what the final version will look like, the company notes, which is good: The demo headset is obviously 3D printed and far from fashionable. Once the final product is available it should look a lot sleeker, based on mockups on the company’s website. It’s not clear when they’ll actually be released, though the preorder page says it’ll be sometime in Q1 2027 at an early bird price of $499. It’s not clear what the final full price will be. As for how the glasses work, the founders, Georgia Tech computer science students Aarush Yadav and Arnav Kumar, explain in a launch post on YC that the device uses low-powered radio waves projected from the glasses toward a wearer’s face. Those waves are distorted by muscle movements and the change in a person’s face shape as they speak or simply mouth words, which the duo said can be picked up and translated into written text. “We started working on this about four months ago after building the first version at a hackathon,” the pair explained in their YC post. “Since then, we’ve gone from a table full of electronics and antennas taped to our face to a semi-portable board and sleek glasses that can decode open-ended speech at 200+ WPM and a reasonably low error rate even at a small dataset scale.” This is just a proof of concept, and many key details are still missing, like the accuracy rate, battery life, whether it will paired with an app, or what-have-you. “The core thing we wanted to prove first was that the signal exists and that we can decode it,” Yadav and Kumar said. In a Hacker News post announcing the company, Yadav and Kumar explained that they started the project during the hackathon by focusing on using EMG electrodes attached to Yadav’s face. They didn’t win the hackathon, but apparently the demo was impressive enough to earn some initial funding from San Francisco VC firm Afore Capital. Shortly after that, the pair pivoted from EMG to RF sensing, as a commercial dictation product that required sticking electrodes to one’s face was unlikely to succeed. “Despite prior academic research, getting this to work was a huge engineering challenge,” Yadav said. “First we built an extremely low-noise RF sensing stack. Then we had to place antennas so their fields overlapped maximally with the articulators. Our first attempt on glasses failed completely, so we reverted to old habits and taped antennas on our face.” They eventually got to the functional prototype they have now, and pre-trained the AI models doing the speech recognition to minimize setup time. According to the company, Lieb only had to read 20 sentences to calibrate the headset to his speech patterns. “We think silent speech can become the next interface for interacting with computers, replacing voice and the keyboard,” the company says of its goal. “Emails, prompts, messages, code, notes, commands, all at the speed of speech without bothering anyone around you.” With just four months of work under their belts, Subvocal could be a massive hit, ushering in a new era of silent muttering productivity for workers in a variety of industries, or it could flop as it tries to scale. Those interested in finding out can preorder a pair now for $199, with the other $300 not due until the glasses ship. ®
SpaceCadet37 has added a photo to the pool:
Walking along Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach, camera in hand, experimenting with fresh ideas, new perspectives and different photographic concepts.
There is something captivating about black-and-white photography. Without colour, the shadows speak louder, the textures come alive, and ordinary moments reveal extraordinary stories.
For me, photography is about more than capturing what I see. It is about challenging my creativity, observing the world differently and discovering beauty in the smallest details.
Same beach. Different perspective. Endless possibilities.
📍 Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia
SpaceCadet37 has added a photo to the pool:
Walking along Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach, camera in hand, experimenting with fresh ideas, new perspectives and different photographic concepts.
There is something captivating about black-and-white photography. Without colour, the shadows speak louder, the textures come alive, and ordinary moments reveal extraordinary stories.
For me, photography is about more than capturing what I see. It is about challenging my creativity, observing the world differently and discovering beauty in the smallest details.
Same beach. Different perspective. Endless possibilities.
📍 Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia
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The 20-year-old is now the youngest-ever World Champion in F1 history.
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