White House urges Congress to renew broadband funding

White House urges Congress to renew broadband funding

Starting Wednesday, millions of Americans around the country will begin to pay more for internet access as a federal program championed by President Joe Biden comes to an end in the absence of action by Congress.  What You Need To Know Starting Wednesday, millions of Americans around the country will begin to pay more for …

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N.Y., Maryland could offer internet gambling

N.Y., Maryland could offer internet gambling

With Rhode Island this week becoming the seventh U.S. state to launch internet gambling, industry panelists at an online gambling conference predicted Wednesday that several additional states would join the fray in the next few years. Speaking at the Next.io forum on internet gambling and sports betting, several mentioned New York and Maryland as likely …

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2023’s most-viewed articles on Wikipedia

2023’s most-viewed articles on Wikipedia

Remember what you searched for in 2023? Well, Wikipedia has the receipts. English Wikipedia raked in more than 84 billion views this year, according to numbers released Tuesday by the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind the free, publicly edited online encyclopedia. And the most popular article was about ChatGPT (yes, the AI chatbot that’s seemingly everywhere today). What You Need To …

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