All over the world, walls are going up around the internet. For years, autocratic regimes have been in a race to heighten those walls, as their citizens develop taller and taller ladders. The more they filter and block, the more their citizens come up with clever technical solutions to access …
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On Thursday, the head of the Sudanese Army, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, addressed the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, asking for increased aid from the international community for Sudan and condemning the paramilitary groups that he says “have killed, looted, raped, robbed, and seized citizens’ homes and properties, …
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Four years after it was formed, the US Space Force has begun deploying its first satellite network. For the military, it marks a significant shift from relying on a handful of powerful, expensive satellites to a swarm of smaller, cheaper ones. From the Pentagon’s perspective, they’ll be a harder target …
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It’s been a year since Apple launched “Emergency SOS via satellite” on the iPhone—and reports suggest that the feature is already saving lives. For example, after a car with two passengers went off the road in Los Angeles, an iPhone 14 in the vehicle registered the accident (via the Crash …
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