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Seattle wants to charge DoorDash and other gig companies 10 cents per order for new license fee

GeekWire

The bill, referred to the City Council last week, would require “network companies” operating in Seattle to pay the fees to obtain an annual license. ” It called the license “duplicative and unnecessary.” For-hire transportation companies including Uber and Lyft would not be subject to the fee.

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Six companies dominate network traffic as speed and access grows

TM Forum

In 2021, just six companies – Google, Facebook, Netflix, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple – generated nearly 57% of global network traffic, according to research by Sandvine, a network monitoring company. billion) in 2020, a six-year high. or territories that are investing in 5G, up from 412 operators at the end of 2020.

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Why the 2020 election will never end on social networks

The Verge

One assumption that many of us had about the 2020 US presidential election is that, at some point, it would end. This “autocracy-in-exile” seems likely to manifest itself as a media operation — perhaps by licensing Trump’s name to the One America News Network, as Dan Sinker speculates ; perhaps by signing a deal with Fox News.

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Week in Review: Most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of Sept. 20, 2020

GeekWire

‘OpenAI should be renamed ClosedAI’: Reaction to Microsoft’s exclusive license of OpenAI’s GPT-3. Microsoft this week gained an exclusive license to OpenAI’s GPT-3, the state-of-the-art language model garnering attention across the tech industry. Most popular stories on GeekWire. … Read More.

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The impact of 5G and cloud on telco capex and opex

TM Forum

5G network investments have essentially amounted to the largest round of spending the industry has ever gone through, which currently only brings us to the non-standalone version of the wireless technology. The majority of network sharing for 5G to date is happening in radio access networks (RANs). High capex costs.

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Online romance scammers stole more hearts (and money) in 2020 than 2019

Vox

In 2020, the amount of money people in the US lost to romance scams, which usually start online, surged 50 percent from the year before, jumping from just over $200 million in 2019 to more than $300 million, according to the Federal Trade Commission. I mean, they copied my picture into their driver’s licenses, into passports.

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WWE will move its streaming service to Peacock in the US

The Verge

WWE Network, the standalone video service from World Wrestling Entertainment, won’t be going it alone for much longer — at least in the United States. The US version of the WWE Network app will be shut down as part of the deal, which The Wall Street Journal is putting at over $1 billion. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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