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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. For-hire transportation companies including Uber and Lyft would not be subject to the fee. ” It called the license “duplicative and unnecessary.”

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Seattle’s new transportation director on electric vehicles, remote work, company shuttles, and more

GeekWire

Greg Spotts, the new director of Seattle’s Department of Transportation. Since moving from Los Angeles to take the helm of Seattle’s Department of Transportation in September, Greg Spotts has been busy learning about his new home. What can business and tech leaders do to support transportation? SDOT Photo).

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Fraport goes all in on private 5G network

CIO Business Intelligence

There were a multitude of reasons for Fraport AG, the operating company of Germany’s largest airport in Frankfurt, to build one of the largest European private 5G campus networks: automation, autonomous driving, localization of devices, and processing data in real time. Autonomous vehicles controlled by 5G would help to alleviate this.

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Amazon reveals a secret about its Project Kuiper satellites: They’re using laser links

GeekWire

With optical inter-satellite links across our satellite constellation, Project Kuiper will effectively operate as a mesh network in space,” Rajeev Badyal, Project Kuiper’s vice president of technology, said today in a news release. “This sounds roughly comparable to the capability demonstrated by Kuiper.”

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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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Pioneering study uses traffic cameras and AI to predict future, promising to save lives and money

GeekWire

Bellevue is leading the way on this,” said Roger Millar, Washington Secretary of Transportation. The Bellevue Department of Transportation project examined collision close calls for vehicles, cyclists and walkers and calculated vehicle speeds. based Transoft Solutions , a transportation technology company, did the video analysis.

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SpaceX to acquire small satellite startup Swarm Technologies

The Verge

36 SpaceBee smallsats launch to space aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket in January 2021, during SpaceX’s Transporter-1 mission with 107 other satellites on board. Elon Musk’s SpaceX is acquiring the small-satellite data provider Swarm Technologies, scooping up the startup’s roughly 30 employees and its network of 120 tiny satellites.

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