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Starlink competitor AST SpaceMobile plans orbital launch for next week
- By Nebraskadigitalnews.com
- . September 5, 2024
AST SpaceMobile is taking another step toward its goal of providing a space-based mobile communications network — one that would turn any standard smartphone into
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A creepy, sonar-like sound coming through Starliner’s speaker posed a brief mystery on the ISS
- By Nebraskadigitalnews.com
- . September 2, 2024
Starliner is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station and make its return trip to Earth uncrewed in just a matter of days, but
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Comcast Xfinity customers can get a year of Perplexity Pro AI for free
- By Nebraskadigitalnews.com
- . August 30, 2024
If you have an account with Comcast Xfinity, then you also have a year-long subscription to the Perplexity Pro AI answer engine. Perplexity announced the
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Labor Day sales include 25 percent off one year of 1Password
- By Nebraskadigitalnews.com
- . August 27, 2024
Labor Day sales have come for subscriptions and services as well as things like tablets and speakers. One of the best Labor Day sales we’ve
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Starliner astronauts will come home in February on a SpaceX Crew Dragon
- By Nebraskadigitalnews.com
- . August 24, 2024
After more than two months of tests and discussions, NASA has decided that astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will come home in February 2025
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Lego’s first Mario Kart sets start throwing out shells on January 1
- By Nebraskadigitalnews.com
- . August 21, 2024
Back when Lego first announced that Mario Kart sets would be arriving in 2025, we didn’t expect them to release on the very first day
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The US lays out a road safety plan that will see cars ‘talk’ to each other
- By Nebraskadigitalnews.com
- . August 18, 2024
The US Department of Transportation has laid out a nationwide road safety plan [PDF] that will lead to cars communicating with each other. The agency
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Kim Dotcom, roguish face of 2010s online piracy, will finally be extradited to the US
- By Nebraskadigitalnews.com
- . August 15, 2024
Kim Dotcom, the Megaupload founder and hard-partying face of early 2010s online piracy, is finally headed to the US. Reuters reports that New Zealand’s justice
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TikTok is finally rolling out group chats for up to 32 people
- By Nebraskadigitalnews.com
- . August 12, 2024
is some direct message updates, including “highly requested” group chats. Owner ByteDance notes that group chats just yet, but those who do have access to
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Warner Bros. sends Cartoon Network’s website to the digital graveyard
- By Nebraskadigitalnews.com
- . August 9, 2024
Warner Bros. Discovery has pulled Cartoon Network’s entire website from the web, which means that you can no longer access free episodes and other interactive