Retweeting a post shared by actor and activist George Takei, Quick asked a favor of Microsoft and Nintendo . The tweet contains a heartwarming video of a girl named Ava playing video games with a controller her father designed to optimize accessibility. Read More...
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Are satellite-based calls the future of mobile phones?
Using a Samsung Galaxy, an engineer outside of Midland, Texas, dialed another mobile phone in Rakuten, Japan, and said hello. It was a prosaic communications miracle of the modern world—but with a 21st century twist. Instead of connecting through a nearby cell tower, the Galaxy was transmitting and receiving signals from a satellite more than 300 miles overhead.
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