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Amazon wants to deliver broadband from orbit

by Justin Ho
Apr 8, 2019
Amazon recently confirmed plans to provide internet connectivity from orbit.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos at a press conference in Santa Monica, California.
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Why cutting the cord isn't so easy in the U.S.

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Apr 19, 2018
TV has changed a lot, but cable has managed to stick around one way or another.
Cindy Ord/Getty Images for Comcast
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2015: A Trash Odyssey

by Sabri Ben-Achour
Oct 30, 2015
Quartz and Marketplace find out littering exists in space, too.
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One man's space trash ...

by Kimberly Adams
Oct 15, 2015
The cloud of debris orbiting the Earth looks to some like a business opportunity.
Space is swirling with thousands of pieces of debris.
Courtesy Lockheed Martin
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Junk in space could have impact on earth

by Kimberly Adams
Sep 22, 2015
The government tracks debris zooming around the earth at upwards of 17,000 mph.
The Lunar Module 'Challenger' as seen from the Apollo 17 spacecraft after Transposition and Docking manoeuvres during NASA's Apollo 17 lunar landing mission, December 1972. The white dots surrounding it are debris shed by the Saturn S-IVB stage separation.
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The contents of the internet, via satellite

by Molly Wood
Jul 30, 2014
A new project aims to democratize the spread of information.
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