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How Brunel's bridge is helping Gigaclear connect rural homes to 1Gb broadbandHow Brunel's bridge is helping Gigaclear connect rural homes to 1Gb broadband

Authors: TheIndianSubcontinent News Agency

UK broadband provider Gigaclear is on a mission to connect rural towns and villages that otherwise can’t get access to high-speed internet. 

As part of that campaign it is now using Bristol's 19th century Clifton Suspension Bridge - based on designs by Isambard Kingdom Brunel - to deliver speedy 1Gb

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Windows Mixed Reality gets performance boost and more with exit from SteamVR ‘early access&Windows Mixed Reality gets performance boost and more with exit from SteamVR ‘early access’

Authors: TheIndianSubcontinent News Agency

As you may have noticed, the Windows 10 April 2018 Update has been officially released by Microsoft, and with it comes a raft of Windows Mixed Reality improvements – and the news that Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR has left ‘early access’.

In other words, this is effectively saying that a full range of

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Fitbit Charge 3: what we want to see

Authors: TheIndianSubcontinent News Agency

The Fitbit Charge 2 has proved to be one of the company’s best-selling fitness trackers, but there are rumors that it's ready for a reboot and that the firm might be planning to release the Charge 3 quite soon.

Fitbit doesn’t usually release new fitness trackers every year, instead waiting until new t

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Twitter puts Cambridge Analytica on the naughty step and bans it from placing adsTwitter puts Cambridge Analytica on the naughty step and bans it from placing ads

Authors: TheIndianSubcontinent News Agency

Twitter says it doesn't want Cambridge Analytica's money, and has banned the research company from buying ads on its platform. CA, which was at the heart of the Facebook data scandal, received a ticking off for its business model, which "inherently conflicts with acceptable Twitter Ads business practices".

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Fortnite Season 4 arrives and 'the world will never be the same'Fortnite Season 4 arrives and 'the world will never be the same'

Authors: TheIndianSubcontinent News Agency

Battle Royale Fortnite Season 4 is finally here. The servers went down, Season 3 is over, and the iOS Season 4 update is now live on the App Store.

Not only that, but we've got the full list of patch notes, confirming that there are new hero types (that are superheroes), special rocks that give players

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Fitbit Ionic 2: what we want to see

Authors: TheIndianSubcontinent News Agency

The Fitbit Ionic isn’t quite the all singing, all dancing mash-up of fitness tracker and smartwatch you might have been hoping for, as our 3.5-star review shows.

It’s not without its merits though, and there’s a lot of potential for improvement, potential that we hope will be met in the likely Fitbit Ionic 2

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