This Week in Tech – 8/6/2017
Ex-FCC Chair Tom Wheeler Dismantles The Case For Abandoning Net Neutrality
The Trump FCC is simply doing the bidding of Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, and Charter in its quest to abandon rules against blocking, slowing, or speeding internet traffic, Wheeler says…
Cable giants step up piracy battle by interrogating Montreal software developer and searching his home
‘The whole experience was horrifying,’ TVAddons founder says of court-sanctioned search…
100x faster, 10x cheaper: 3D metal printing is about to go mainstream
Desktop Metal – remember the name. This Massachussetts company is preparing to turn manufacturing on its head, with a 3D metal printing system that’s so much faster, safer and cheaper than existing systems that it’s going to compete with traditional mass manufacturing processes…
Tesla Model S Sets New Record For Distance Traveled On One Charge
On Friday, a Tesla club in Italy announced that they had driven a Tesla Model S 100D 670 miles on a single charge — a new record distance…
Tesla averaging 1,800 Model 3 reservations per day since last week’s event
Tesla is booking a total of around 1,800 Model 3 net reservations per day since it held an event last Friday to handover its first Model 3 production cars to employees who pre-ordered the vehicle, the company revealed in its earnings letter for Q2 2017…
Dems press FCC to extend net neutrality comment period
Democrat senators are urging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to extend the public comment period on its proposal to scrap the net neutrality rules…
It’s not for politicians to tell the public they don’t need encryption
Amber Rudd has been out doing the media rounds this morning talking about the issues end-to-end encryption poses to law enforcement…