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Talbot elections officials unsettled after underage voter gets mail ballot application | Local

EASTON — A St. Michaels mother says she was upset to find in her mailbox an application for a mail-in ballot addressed to her 17-year-old daughter who will not be eligible to vote in November. Talbot County elections officials deny having sent the application, though they say they don’t know who did.

County Elections Director Jeri Cook said the mailing did not come from the county’s elections office nor from the state of Maryland. She said she’s “really concerned” that underage voters are receiving mail that urges them to vote in the 2020 Presidential General Election when they are not eligible to do so.

The envelope in which the St. Michaels woman said her daughter’s ballot application was enclosed shows an image of a young girl wearing a mask, and beside the girl there is a message that reads: “Support our children and schools. Vote Yes on Question 2 …”

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by hafiz wae
October 18, 2020

How an Older TV Screwed Up an Entire Village’s Internet

It took experts months to figure out what was causing outages for a small town in Wales. Here’s what they did to solve it.

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It took experts months to figure out what was causing outages for a small town in Wales. Here’s what they did to solve it.

A TV in Wales took down the local internet, making it a lesson about interference.
Shielded cabling and other tech helps protect signals, but this interference is unpredictable.
The ISP worked for months to figure out what regularly took down this network.

An embarrassed villager in Aberhosan, Wales, has learned their old TV has been messing up the entire village broadband connection. The cause—discovered by an engineering team from Openreach—is a burst of electrical activity called SHINE: single high-level impulse noise.

Older TVs, likely limited to only CRTs and prior unless something’s wrong with your wiring, experience an intense concentration of energy when you first power them on—you’d notice more resistance and an indescribable noise when you powered on these

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by hafiz wae
October 16, 2020

IdeaTek awarded $13.7 million to extend internet access – News – The Hutchinson News

A grant announcement made Thursday afternoon brings new meaning to the phrase “high-speed internet.”

Buhler-based IdeaTek will receive $13.71 million from four Connectivity Emergency Response Grants (CERG) awarded by the state in response to the novel coronavirus to extend its fiber-optic network to unserved and underserved areas in parts of more than a dozen area counties .

The company is teaming up with several local and state nonprofit agencies in new ways to leverage the state funding and qualify for the grant.

The challenge, however, is that the company must spend the millions going toward installing some 300 miles of new line and related wireless equipment within the next 80-some days.

That’s because of a federal government requirement attached to money, which flowed from the federal CARES Act, that it be spent before the end of the year or it will have to be repaid.

To put the challenge in

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by hafiz wae
October 15, 2020

How to use a Moneyball strategy for college applications and find excellent schools that are undervalued

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Unlike other major purchases in life, families know little about what they will actually pay for a college education when they begin the search.

Without clarity on the eventual price, families think more about the academic and social fit of campuses rather than the financial fit. They believe, often incorrectly, that they can figure out a way to pay the cost through a combination of scholarships, loans, and savings. After all, they’ve heard that every school offers a discount to entice you to enroll (hint: they don’t).

As a result, emotions steer choices, and many wind up disappointed when the hoped-for financial aid doesn’t materialize.

During the year I spent inside the admissions process, what I came to see, and prospective students and their families should too, is that colleges are either “buyers” or “sellers” of spots in the freshman class.

Sellers are the “haves” of admissions.

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by hafiz wae
October 14, 2020

Application Performance Company Pixie Labs Raises $9.15 Million And Emerges From Stealth

Pixie Labs announced it emerged from stealth with its first product called Pixie and it raised $9.15 million in Series A funding

Pixie Labs announced it emerged from stealth with its first product called Pixie. And Pixie Labs also announced $9.15 million in Series A funding led by Benchmark with participation from GV.

Pixie is known for dramatically reducing the complexity and cost for developers to observe and troubleshoot their application’s performance. And with Pixie, developers do not need to change code, manually set up ad hoc dashboards, or compromise on how much performance data they can observe. Early access customers range from early-stage startups to internet-scale streaming content teams who are all already running Pixie in their production Kubernetes environments.

Pixie Labs co-founder and CEO Zain Asgar is an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University who was an engineering lead for Google AI. And co-founder and CPO

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by hafiz wae
October 12, 2020

LPSS offering free in-home internet assistance program for qualified residents

The Lafayette Parish School System is offering free in-home internet assistance for residents who qualify for the program.

This service provides academic-filtered internet access for LPSS students only (limited/restrictive access to certain websites) and will be provided through either Cox Communications or LUS Fiber.

Parents/guardians in need of assistance for internet access are encouraged to visit https://www.lpssonline.com/Smarts to fill out and submit the In-home Internet Assistance Application by the deadline of October 30, 2020.

Love Our Schools partnered with the Lafayette Parish School System, Pugh Family Foundation, William C. Schumacher Family Foundation, One Acadiana, and many others to address the digital divide in the community, working toward ensuring that all students have access to the internet.

“As educators, we always keep at the forefront of our minds the vital importance of making sure our students have a safe, quality environment conducive for learning and growth; since many of our students

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by hafiz wae
October 4, 2020

Musical Internet of Things Connects Music Lovers in an Age of Distancing

Previously, we discussed the merging fields of IoT and the performing arts, a phenomenon known as the Musical Internet of Things or “IoMusT.” This technology has only become more prevalent during the age of COVID-19 where many live musical events, like concerts, are no longer possible in a physical sense.

Here are a few ways we see IoMusT appear in real-world applications.

Network-Based Collaborations

Musical performances connected over networks enable musicians to reach both co-located as well as remote audiences.

IoMusT network block diagram.

One example is a networked music performance (NMP) system called ReacTable, which consists of a touchable interface of a table that can track how objects are moved on the surface to subsequently control musical output. This interface allows musicians located in different locations to collaborate with items on the table and perform in real-time at the same concert.

ReacTable interface

ReacTable interface. Image used courtesy of ReacTable

Networked

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by hafiz wae
October 3, 2020

Internet Advertisement Market Next Big Thing

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by hafiz wae
October 2, 2020

Internet of Things (IoT) Professional Services Market

Global Info Research has recently published a report, titled [Global Internet of Things (IoT) Professional Services Market 2020 by Company, Regions, Type and Application, Forecast to 2025]. The research report provides an in-depth explanation of the various factors that are likely to drive the market. It discusses the future of the market by studying the historical details. Analysts have studied the ever-changing market dynamics to evaluate their impact on the overall market. In addition, the report also discusses the segments present in the market. Primary and secondary research methodologies have been used to provide the readers with an accurate and precise understanding of the overall Internet of Things (IoT) Professional Servicesmarket. Analysts have also given readers an unbiased opinion about the direction companies will take during the forecast period.

The research report also includes the global market figures that provide historical data as well as estimated figures. It gives a

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by hafiz wae
October 1, 2020

Nashville to start tests for Google Fiber 2 Gig internet in October

Nashville will soon be one of the first two cities in the United States to test a new Google Fiber product offering faster internet speeds: Google Fiber 2 Gig.

2 Gig offers downloads of up to 2 gigabits (a full gigabit above Google Fiber’s 1 Gig product that launched in 2010) and has upload speeds of up to one gigabit. According to Google Fiber, this means internet speeds will be up to 30% faster with 2 Gig.

“This year has made this need for more speed and bandwidth especially acute, as many of us are now living our entire lives — from work to school to play — within our homes, creating unprecedented demand for internet capacity,” Director of Product Management Amalia O’Sullivan wrote in a news release Monday. “2 Gig will answer that challenge.”

The service costs $100 per month, and includes a new Wi-Fi 6 router and

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by hafiz wae
September 28, 2020