FEMA will send a test emergency alert to your iPhone in the U.S. on October 4th

Views: 74FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will conduct a national test of the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System (IPAWS) on Oct. 4, 2023. FEMA, in coordination with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), will conduct a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) and Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA) this Wednesday. […]

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FCC: TV Stations Must Continue to Offer Free ATSC 1.0 OTA TV

Views: 9Good news for anyone who has yet to upgrade to a TV or device with ATSC 3.0 NextGen TV. Last week the FCC announced they will be pushing back their deadline that would have let TV stations shut down their 1.0 signals to Juen 2027. The FCC did add, though, that they will reconsider […]

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TikTok could be banned in the U.S. unless Chinese sell stake

Views: 73The Biden administration is reportedly demanding that TikTok’s Chinese owners sell their stake in the short-form video sharing app or it could face a possible U.S. ban. First reported by The Wall Street Journal, the demand is said to have come from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., a multiagency federal task […]

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U.S. House Judiciary subpoenas Apple CEO Tim Cook, other Big Tech CEOs over free speech

Views: 114U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan on Wednesday subpoenaed Apple CEO Tim Cook and the CEOs of Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook- and Instagram-parent Meta Platforms, and Microsoft for documents and communications relating to free-speech issues. Jordan and other conservatives accused the companies of suppressing conservative speech… “These subpoenas are the first step in holding […]

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