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The latest crisis: Low-income students are dropping out of college this fall in alarming numbers
As fall semester gets into full swing in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, schools are noticing a concerning trend: Low-income students are the most likely to drop out or not enroll at all, raising fears that they might never get a college degree.
U.S. accuses China of harboring hackers who targeted video game firms, universities and other companies (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 09/16/2020 - 15:34Oracle’s courting of Trump may help it land TikTok’s business and coveted user data (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 09/16/2020 - 06:30Pro-Trump youth group enlists teens in secretive campaign likened to a ‘troll farm,’ prompting rebuke by Facebook and Twitter (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 09/15/2020 - 17:34Russian hackers who disrupted 2016 election targeting political parties again, Microsoft says (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 09/10/2020 - 18:18Another Facebook worker quits in disgust, saying the company ‘is on the wrong side of history’ (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 09/08/2020 - 14:18The 5G lie: The network of the future is still slow
5G may hold promise for the years ahead — but across most of America in 2020, a 5G phone does diddly squat. Testing 5G phones, I’ve been clocking download speeds that are roughly the same as on 4G LTE ones. And in some places, like inside my house and along the California highway, my 5G phones actually have been slower. Your experience with a 5G phone in 2020 is likely to be all over the map. I got searing fast 750 Mbps downloads from AT&T in one corner of downtown. But in the same spot, my 4G phone got an also extremely fast 330 Mbps.