If you told me 7-Eleven was going to beat Wawa and Sheetz to a nationwide charging network in the United States and Canada, I would have said, “Wait…7-Eleven is still around?” But that’s what’s happening! In a blog post, the company announced that it is launching 7Charge — a new proprietary charging network and app.…
Meta, the company behind Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, is working on its own decentralized social network. As reported by Money Control and confirmed by Meta, the company has been working on a text-based social network that will support ActivityPub, the decentralized social networking protocol used by federated social networking apps like the growingly popular Mastodon.…
The end of all other EV charging stations is nigh — the Tesla Supercharger network is starting to come online for non-Tesla EVs in the United States. In a support article, the company announced that it is making the first Superchargers available to non-Tesla electric vehicle owners. Tesla says that “some stations” are now available…
Whether you’re dealing with internet data caps, you just got a new Steam Deck, or your internet is just insufferably slow (or some combination of the three), you’ll likely find Steam’s latest feature exciting. A recent update of Steam’s beta client adds support for transferring game install files from one system to another over your…
(Image credit: Intel) Intel’s disastrous Q4 2022 earnings found the company losing $661 million and its margins crashing to the lowest point in decades, so it isn’t surprising that the company announced new cost-cutting measures. That includes news that it would no longer invest in new products for its networking switch business, effectively sunsetting the…
TikTok is one of the most popular social networks out there. But TikTok is also a cause of concern for western governments that worry about the company’s ties to the Chinese government. TikTok can’t run on most devices the US government issues, and there has been talk of a nationwide ban of the app. The…
If you are curious about Verizon’s network but aren’t quite ready to commit to paying for it, we have some good news. Verizon launched a new early access program this week that will let anyone give its network a trial run for free for 30 days. Verizon Test Drive, much like similar programs from AT&T…
The First Responder Network Authority, also known as FirstNet, is an independent authority that was established in the wake of September 11, 2001. After the terrorist attacks, the government realized first responders needed a network that would allow them to communicate as natural disasters, attacks, or life-altering events are taking place. The inability of first…
Apple should launch several iOS and iPadOS devices later this year, including the iPhone 14 and new iPads models. The iPads run iPadOS, but that’s just the name Apple uses for the tablet-optimized version of iOS. With that in mind, we don’t expect to see any other iOS devices in stores, yet the FCC just…
Microsoft this week released a patch to fix the last vestiges of a remote code execution vulnerability called PrintNightmare (CVE-2021-34527), but while the vulnerability now seems fixed, BleepingComputer reports that the patch seems to have broken network printing altogether. The PrintNightmare bug is a vulnerability that allows attackers to execute malicious code on users’ systems…
