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• Google's Project Skybender uses drones to bring super fast Internet to the skies

  31-01-2016 21:52
  
  If you follow Google relatively closely, you probably know about Project Loon, an effort to provide Internet access to those in rural areas or affected by natural disasters using LTE-equipped balloons.
  According to a new report from The Guardian, Project Loon has some company. As part of another project, called Project Skybender, Google is experimenting with a fleet of solar-powered drones equipped with a new, super-high-speed wireless broadband technology that’s up to 40 times faste
  
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• White House education plan leaves visa critics flabbergasted

  31-01-2016 20:16
  
  President Barack Obama's $4 billion computer science initiative, announced Saturday, is getting financial help from two India-based IT offshore firms. They are joining other tech firms contributing to parts of this program.
  The firms, Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services, sit at the top of the pyramid of IT services firms that rely on H-1B visas. They are among the most successful firms in the IT services business.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  
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• Report: Amazon wants to take on Spotify with a new music streaming service

  31-01-2016 18:14
  Amazon is no stranger to media streaming, what with its Prime Music and Prime Video services. If a new report is any indication, though, it’s about to take things up a notch.
  According to a recent report from the New York Post, the company has started work on a full-fledged streaming service similar to Apple Music and Spotify. The streaming service would “feature a much more robust music selection” than what Amazon currently offers through Prime Music, its existing&m
  
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