Check out this interactive broadband map showing the range of Internet access in Pennsylvania – Technical.ly

Check out this interactive broadband map showing the range of Internet access in Pennsylvania - Technical.ly

How many Pennsylvanians don’t have broadband access at home? The head of a technology and public policy research team out of Penn State thinks their new mapping tool can determine that number better than the FCC. The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is preparing to distribute millions of dollars to organizations across the state to support digital … Read more

8.3 million places in the US still don’t have access to broadband internet

8.3 million places in the US still don't have access to broadband internet

This week, the FCC released its most accurate, up-to-date, and granular map of high-speed broadband availability in the United States. It shows which homes and businesses have high-speed broadband available and, crucially, the 8.3 million who don’t. The agency calls it another step in its efforts to accurately map broadband access. Measuring how many people … Read more

Residents and businesses in Macomb, Oakland and Wayne counties asked to participate in a survey on broadband Internet access and speed

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Better data will inform county decisions to improve service ANN ARBOR, Michigan., June 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Macomb, oakland AND Wayne Counties are asking residents and businesses to take a 15-question survey of Internet service among their households. Merit Logo (PRNewsfoto/Merit Network) The survey asks if high-speed Internet service (“broadband”) is available at a particular … Read more

As rural counties look to expand their Internet access, Hardee is already leading the pack

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Grants from the state’s Department of Economic Opportunity are helping counties strengthen their Internet infrastructure. The latest round of funding fuels an additional $60 million to expand Internet access in several rural counties, including Hardee, Desoto and Highlands. Meanwhile, one county is already at the forefront. Justin Smith, with the development group in Hardee County, … Read more

NordVPN vs Private Internet Access

NordVPN vs Private Internet Access

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ChatGPT can now access the Internet and execute the code it writes

GPT will now include information from the web, complete with links to its sources

Language model AIs teach themselves the arts of communication and problem solving based on a limited set of training data. In the case of GPT-4, that data is pretty stale, with the cutoff at the end of 2021. That’s where all of ChatGPT’s “knowledge” up to this point comes from, and its only output at … Read more