TechCrunch
GPS satellites beam faint signals that are easy to jam and often unavailable indoors, with accuracy measured in meters. Startup Xona is launching six satellites this month for Pulsar, a commercial service it says will be accurate to centimeters, reach inside buildings, and work with existing receivers after a software update.
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The Guardian
Coordinated universal time is kept by atomic clocks, which are steadier than the Earth's rotation. Officials have added 27 leap seconds since 1972 to keep the two in sync, but a minute with 61 seconds can confuse computers. Delegates from 69 countries voted to replace leap seconds with a leap hour, allowing up to an hour of drift, which is not expected to be needed for thousands of years.
Khaleej Times
Etisalat UAE switched on a smartphone feature that sends data on two streams at once and combines capacity across frequency bands, which it says triples upload speeds on its 5.5G network. Uploads matter more as AI assistants and cloud tools need your device to send photos, files or camera views before they can answer. The operator says it is the first to offer this setup commercially for phones.
Innovation News Network
Satellites use many different connectors for power, data and heat, so failing hardware usually means the spacecraft is abandoned, adding to the debris problem. An EU-funded project called SPACE USB built a Common Passive Interface that locks into place in minutes and tested it against Europe's three rival docking standards. A robotic test bench attached it to a dummy satellite for different jobs.
Frontier India
Satellite internet links a ground terminal to satellites overhead, and Russia is now showing hardware for its Rassvet network. Bureau 1440 introduced three terminals: a flagship for industrial sites that it says reaches up to 700 Mbps, one for trains moving at up to 400 km/h, and a small unit that runs about 100 Mbps; Starlink's residential speeds run 100 to 200 Mbps.