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Rob Pegoraro

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As seen in: Fast Company, CNN, CNN Underscored, MSN, MSN Ireland, Wirecutter, Bloomberg CityLab, Bloomberg News, Forbes, Post Outlook, The Washington Post and
Covers:  digital culture, telecom, gadgets, tech policy, smartphones, consumer electronics, computers, social media, internet
Doesn't Cover: enterprise computing, startup funding rounds
Journalist covering/vexed by computers, gadgets, other things that beep. He/him. Read: @pcmag, @fastcompany, etc. Write: rob@robpegoraro.com.
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Comcast's 1.2 TB data cap seems like a ton of data-until you factor in remote work

Comcast's 1.2 TB data cap seems like a ton of data-until you factor in remote work

Fast Company — A less frequent reaction: "How could you?" As in, how could any one person possibly burn through that much data in a month? The threshold that Comcast will start enforcing next year on subscribers in the northeast does, indeed, allow for a lot of online life before getting socked by surcharges of $10 for each extra 50 GB, up to $100 a month.
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What the hell happened to Mint?

What the hell happened to Mint?

Fast Company — Intuit's Mint personal-finance service wants me to know it's sorry. Again. "We're sorry!" its investments page bleats when I try to view my mutual funds' performance. "Our graphs require the latest version of Adobe Flash player."
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Apple and Google remind you about location privacy, but don't forget your wireless carrier

Apple and Google remind you about location privacy, but don't forget your wireless carrier

USA Today — The latest smartphone operating systems from Apple and Google want you to think more about what other companies know about where you've been. But the primary way iOS 13 and Android 10 do that - a notification to warn that one application or another has been getting your location when you weren't using that app - only tells part of that privacy story.
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Tech Companies Are Quietly Phasing Out a Major Privacy Safeguard

Tech Companies Are Quietly Phasing Out a Major Privacy Safeguard

The Atlantic — Read: What transparency reports don't tell us Digital-rights advocates routinely point to transparency reports as an essential tool to hold companies accountable for defending their customers when governments ask for their information or the disappearance of their speech.
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SpaceX successfully launches the world's most powerful rocket

SpaceX successfully launches the world's most powerful rocket

Yahoo Finance — Seconds later, the sound of 5 million pounds of thrust arrived-an avalanche of noise that raced across the water in front of the press site and rushed over journalists as a crackling thunder. Their sonic booms-thunderclaps that sounded like fireworks going off far too close for safety-punched through the air about a minute later.
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Analysis | The Trump administration gets the history of Internet regulations all wrong

Analysis | The Trump administration gets the history of Internet regulations all wrong

The Washington Post — Nostalgia for the Clinton administration may not be what you'd expect from a prominent Trump appointee. But the new head of the Federal Communications Commission has been handing out compliments for the 42nd president's telecom policies. "The Internet is the greatest free-market success in history," FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a speech at the Newseum last month .
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Unlocking Democracy: Inside the Most Insecure Voting Machines in America

Unlocking Democracy: Inside the Most Insecure Voting Machines in America

Yahoo — (Rob Pegoraro/Yahoo Tech) Like hundreds of thousands of other Virginians, I've been casting ballots for over a decade using Winvote voting machines. I now have physical proof of how catastrophically insecure those machines are. It's a tiny key that opens the plastic door hiding the USB port on every Winvote terminal.
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Google's cheaper Chromebook: enough of a computer

Google's cheaper Chromebook: enough of a computer

Boing Boing, 11/19/2012 — The cheaper Chromebooks that Google introduced last month don't deserve credit for being a cheap way to read e-mail and surf the web: any smartphone meets that specification. But the $249 Samsung model I've been testing for the past two weeks can do those things and also plausibly replace a low-end laptop.
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Gigabit Internet for $70: the unlikely success of California's Sonic.net

Gigabit Internet for $70: the unlikely success of California's Sonic.net

Ars Technica, 2/26/2012 — SEBASTOPOL, CALIFORNIA-Two things set a one-block stretch of Florence Avenue apart from other American streets. One is the quirky metal sculptures planted in front of most homes; the other is the Internet traffic coursing through recently-strung fiber-optic cables on the block's utility poles. They offer each house up to one gigabit per second in bandwidth, making this one of the fastest streets in America.
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Apple rejects Pulitzer winner's iPhone app because it 'ridicules public figures'

Apple rejects Pulitzer winner's iPhone app because it 'ridicules public figures'

The Washington Post, 4/16/2010 — A Pulitzer Prize can win you a round of applause in a newsroom, but it won't necessarily get your application in Apple's App Store. Freelance artist Mark Fiore, winner of the 2010 prize for editorial cartooning and the first online-only recipient of a Pulitzer, found that out in December.
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To Wit: Twittering

To Wit: Twittering

The Washington Post, 4/30/2008 — Politicians can have their message of the day, but on the Web, anybody can have their message of the hour -- or the minute. Short updates on social-networking sites have become a new sort of public writing, the equivalent of text-messaging the Web. As with texting, conciseness matters here; one popular site even limits updates to 140 characters. (See, this paragraph just hit that mark.)
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Firefox Leaves No Reason to Endure Internet Explorer

Firefox Leaves No Reason to Endure Internet Explorer

The Washington Post, 11/14/2004 — Internet Explorer, you're fired. That should have been said a long time ago. After Microsoft cemented a monopoly of the Web-browser market, it let Internet Explorer go stale, parceling out ho-hum updates that neglected vulnerabilities routinely exploited by hostile Web sites.
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