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TAMPA, Fla. — Skylo has raised $30 million to enable standard smartphones to connect to partner geostationary satellites in more areas worldwide.The Silicon Valley startup has now raised around $183 million since it was created in 2017 to enable texting and other low-bandwidth services outside cellular coverage, cofounder and chief product officer Tarun Gupta said.The proceeds will help Skylo deploy the network hardware geostationary operators need in their gateways to connect compatible smartphones using the latest cellular standards, such as the Google Pixel 9 Series.Skylo currently provides commercial services in 35 countries across five continents, after recently expanding into Brazil, Australia,…
Este artículo también está disponible en español. Solana (SOL) is trading at its lowest price level since September 2024, as the entire crypto market struggles with fear and intense selling pressure. Solana has lost over 55% of its value in less than six weeks, erasing the gains from its post-election rally and raising concerns among investors about a potential prolonged downtrend. Related Reading Panic has taken over the market, and traders are growing fearful that Solana’s correction may continue into lower price levels. Despite multiple attempts to reclaim momentum, bulls have been unable to defend key demand zones, allowing bears…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal weather and oceans agency touches people’s daily lives in unnoticed ways, so massive firings there will likely cause needless deaths and a big hit to America’s economy, according to the people who ran it.The first round of firings started Thursday at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a government agency that monitors the oceans, the atmosphere where storms roam and space, and puts out hundreds of “products” daily. Those products generally save lives and money, experts say.NOAA’s 301 billion weather forecasts every year reach 96% of American households.The firings are “going to affect safety of…
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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has quietly renamed the Trump administration’s ambitious national missile defense initiative from “Iron Dome for America” to “Golden Dome for America,” according to a recent advisory to defense contractors.The name change came to light when Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, while discussing programs protected from potential budget cuts, referred to the system as “Golden Dome, or Iron Dome” in a recent video addressing the Pentagon’s efforts to identify $50 billion in cost savings in the 2026 budget.What initially appeared to be a verbal slip has now been confirmed as an official program name change. “Please note the…
Este artículo también está disponible en español. A new Bitcoin Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) gap has just been opened around $78,000 and $80,700. Analysts warn that this price range could act as a magnet for further downturns in the Bitcoin price, making it a critical area to watch in the coming days. According to crypto analyst Rekt Capital on X (formerly Twitter), Bitcoin is currently facing increased volatility as it moves closer to filling a key CME gap between $78,000 and $80,700. A CME gap represents price disparities on the Bitcoin Futures chart traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Open…
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Trump accuses ‘disrespectful’ Zelensky of gambling with WW3Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to…
WASHINGTON (AP) — As House members finished voting for the week and left Washington, the lead Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. Rosa DeLauro, voiced frustration that Republicans had yet to respond to her latest offer on a full-year spending bill, even though it had been made five days earlier.Meanwhile, her Republican counterpart outright dismissed Democratic efforts to include assurances in the legislation that funding approved by Congress would be spent by President Donald Trump’s administration as lawmakers intended. “A Republican Senate and a Republican House are not going to limit what a president can do, particularly when he…
Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…