David Shropshire

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Why You Should Hold Off on Buying a 5G Phone in 2019

Many people are wondering what 5G is and if they should get a 5G phone. Here is why we think you should hold off getting a 5G phone in 2019.

PC Guides – Jan 31, 2019

What T-Mobile’s Band 71 Means for Its Subscribers

T-Mobile acquired the low-band spectrum of 600 MHz wavelength, broadcast as band 71. How is this going to be beneficial for its customers? Let’s check it out.

Mobile – Jan 30, 2019

When Grace Hopper wanted to explain a nanosecond to admirals who kept asking why satellites were slow, she handed each of them a piece of wire 11.8 inches long, the exact distance light travels in a billionth of a second, and told them to keep it in their pocket as a reminder that physics, not laziness, sets the limit.

Jun 8, 2026

From below of blue starry sky over radio telescope and trees with leaves

The Big Ear telescope was scanning at 1420.4056 megahertz on the night of 15 August 1977, the exact frequency at which hydrogen atoms vibrate across the universe, because Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison had argued years earlier that any species trying to be found would broadcast on that channel — and then, for 72 seconds, something did.

Jun 8, 2026

An astronaut in a spacesuit ventures across a barren, Mars-like desert landscape.

When Doug Wheelock came home after 163 days in space, he said he had craved the aroma of leaves, grass, flowers, and trees, the rush of Earthiness that reaches astronauts only when the hatch opens back onto the living planet

Jun 8, 2026

Scenic view of snow-covered mountains with ancient petroglyphs on rocks under a clear blue sky.

When Frank Maixner’s team reconstructed Ötzi the Iceman’s 5,300-year-old stomach bacterium in 2016, the Helicobacter pylori strain looked less like modern Europe’s hybrid form than Asian lineages common today in South and Central Asia, leaving a migration signal no pot or stone tool could have shown

Jun 8, 2026

When Cingular chief Stan Sigman backed the original iPhone before its 2007 unveiling, he accepted terms American carriers usually refused: no logo on the device, no control over its software, no preloaded apps, and a share of monthly subscriber revenue flowing back to Apple, after signing on without seeing a prototype

Jun 8, 2026

Black and white close-up of classic typewriter keys, emphasizing vintage design.

Every year, roughly two billion new smartphones, laptops, and tablets ship with a key arrangement designed in the 1870s to prevent slender metal arms from colliding inside a machine that has been obsolete for decades, a piece of 19th-century mechanical engineering quietly embedded in the muscle memory of about five billion people.

Jun 8, 2026

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