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Would you be able to sleep in a hotel room ‘pod’ floating in the ocean? http://ift.tt/2nlZ2hU For your next hotel stay, how do you fancy the idea of sleeping in a pod that floats, unattached, in the sea? A pod with a glass roof so you can stare dreamily at the starry sky as you bob up and down and gently drop off to sleep? A pod that drifts several miles across a bay as you snooze, arriving at an attraction-filled island at sunrise? The ambitious plan is set to become a reality before the end of the year, according to the operator of Huis Ten Bosch, a Dutch-inspired theme park near Nagasaki in Japan. Each pod will reportedly have two levels — a lower one for relaxing and dining, and an upper one with a bed from where you can gaze at the night sky. Aimed squarely at those who enjoy life’s quirkier offerings, your aquatic hotel room will depart from the shore of the Huis Ten Bosch park in the evening. From there you’ll float a distance of about 4 miles (6 km) across the bay to a small island where you’ll be able to spend the following day enjoying a number of yet-to-be-built attractions. A second night in the pod will return you across the water, back to Huis Ten Bosch. Possible drawbacks include rough crossings when the weather’s bad, though in such cases you’ll likely be offered alternative accommodation on solid ground. And if you’re a big fan of room service during hotel stays, then this particular hotel probably isn’t for you. Those behind the plan haven’t yet revealed how the pods will reliably reach their destination, an important point if they want to reassure guests that they really will be waking up at a spot 4 miles away rather than 40. A night in the pod is expected to cost around 35,000 yen ($315), though you may as well double that as it seems this is a minimum-two-nights deal. More: The best underwater hotels — rock bottom never looked so good Japan’s Huis Ten Bosch park appears to have a penchant for peculiar hotels. Two years ago it made international headlines with the launch of a hotel staffed entirely by robots. Features include a robot dinosaur to check you in, facial recognition technology for door locks, a tulip-shaped concierge robot for every guest, and sensor panels that detect your body heat and adjust the room’s temperature accordingly.
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6 Steps to Transform Your Agency Leaders Into Consistent Content Creators http://ift.tt/2oke5tI If you’re fortunate enough to work at an agency full of brilliant individuals, you’ve probably experienced the following: You’re in a leadership meeting debating different approaches to solving a problem, and a lot of ideas are on the table. Suddenly, someone’s voice cuts through the noise, and what she shares is so inspirational and well thought out that you find yourself scrambling for a pen and paper to write it all down. She’s one of your agency’s subject matter experts. She understands the industry, your clients, and your company so well that ideas and solutions come to her like in a dream. You know your audience would benefit from her knowledge, and you know she should be creating content. But how does your team turn that realization into reality? Here’s what you need to do to transform your internal expert into a consistent content creator. First things first: Put yourself in her shoes. If you’re active in your industry, involved in your company, and leading your team forward in such a way that you’re a great candidate for thought leadership, do you think you’ll have extra time to get into the weeds with any one area of your agency -- especially inbound marketing? It’s just not realistic. You can’t go up to this leader and say, “Hey, all those amazing things you said in our meeting? I’d love for you to write 800 words about it, follow these publication guidelines, and fit the documented content strategy that Marketing put together. Thanks!” She’s going to need a team to help her. Whether you budget for an in-house content marketing team or decide to outsource, you’ll need at least a project manager, a content strategist, a writer, an editor, and a distribution specialist. Next, you need to think about tools. You’re probably already using a number of different tools to support your marketing and advertising efforts today -- about 12 of them, on average. Take stock of what you’re working with already, and compare their functions to what you need to make content creation easy for internal experts. Different teams may want different platforms to help with their specific functions, but there are three types of tools every team can benefit from:
Finally, consider the process. The process your team puts in place to work with your thought leader can make or break the experience -- and the success of your agency’s efforts. Some experts are natural writers and may want a larger role in the process; others enjoy the act of storytelling but prefer to leave the details to their teams. Each agency’s process is unique. Based on my personal experiences and what I’ve learned from five years of leading a company that helps thought leaders create content, the best processes include these six steps: 1) Discover the thought leader’s passions and expertise.To keep your thought leader engaged, tackle topics and projects that truly interest her. In those first meetings, encourage your team to uncover what she’s passionate about and where her strongest expertise lies. What they learn in this step will guide their content strategy. 2) Determine the best strategy to communicate that passion and expertise.Next, your team will need to document the strategy that will help your thought leader communicate her passion and expertise. It can be as robust or as simple as your team likes -- as long as it includes a description of your agency’s goals for thought leadership, which publications you’re targeting, who your audience is, and how you’ll bring those elements together. Documenting this strategy will remind your expert of the rhyme and reason behind the content your team creates, and it will align your various marketing efforts. 3) Set up a process for knowledge extraction that plays to the thought leader’s strengths.Knowledge extraction is your team’s way of drawing expertise, examples, and personal stories from your thought leader to fuel the content. Rather than ask for a write-up from your expert, your team can ask her specific questions to gain the raw material needed to craft an article. That material can be stored in your knowledge bank and even used to write future pieces of content. A Q&A process works well here, and depending on your expert’s strengths, your team can aim for a written Q&A or an interview in person or over the phone. Tailor the approach to how your thought leader best communicates and what saves everyone the most time. 4) Create awesome content she’ll love.This is your thought leader’s chance for a break. With the answers collected in the knowledge extraction phase, your team’s writers and editors can get to work crafting the content. By removing the thought leader from the heavy lifting of actual writing, your team utilizes her time intelligently -- and all that extra time means she’ll have the chance to review the finished work and ensure it’s written in her voice. 5) Coordinate publishing.Unless your thought leader’s expertise somehow happens to be in online publications (and she has the time to manage those editorial relationships), your content team should take the reins here, too. Enlist your distribution specialist to pitch content to your target publication, work with the editors there to make any necessary changes, and publish your thought leadership content. 6) Coach her on promoting the published content.Take advantage of the time between content acceptance and publication to prepare materials to help your thought leader promote her published content. Encourage your team to write social media posts, and suggest online communities for your thought leader to participate in. Draft emails to share content with your partners and clients. Prep your sales team on ways to leverage this content in sales conversations. The better her content performs, the better your shot will be at contributing to that publication again. Remember, your subject matter experts probably won’t have the time or know-how to run a full content team, become a published thought leader, and maintain consistency all on their own. Pair your internal experts with a fantastic content team, the right tools, and a solid process, and you can create engaging, authentic content that drives results for your agency. Digital Trends via HubSpot http://ift.tt/1y9rdls March 29, 2017 at 09:03PM
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Jeff Bezos offers a peek inside Blue Origin’s capsule for space tourists http://ift.tt/2oaZByI If you’re loaded with money and rather like the idea of a trip to the edge of space, then Blue Origin is probably on the list of companies you’re currently considering for your ride of a lifetime. Founded by Amazon boss Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin has been making steady progress with its New Shepard reusable rocket system that’ll one day take space tourists on unforgettable suborbital adventures. With a growing number of successful unmanned missions under its belt, the company is hoping to launch the service as early as 2018. As Blue Origin moves ever closer to the first human test flights of its system, expected later this year, Bezos this week released several images offering a glimpse of the kind of comfort paying passengers can expect to enjoy during their trip. The plushly designed capsule, which looks suitably science fiction, features six comfy-looking reclining seats positioned close to the large windows so the tourists can enjoy a view like no other. “Every seat’s a window seat, the largest windows ever in space,” Bezos said in an email update on Wednesday. The seats will become temporarily redundant when the capsule reaches a spot 62 miles (100 km) above the surface of the Earth, as the passengers will be permitted to unbelt and have some fun floating idly about in a weightless environment. More: Blue Origin’s emergency crew capsule test was one of its most dramatic missions yet Speaking at the Space Symposium event in Colorado Springs last year, Bezos described the kind of experience Blue Origin space tourists can expect. “We want people to be able to get out, float around, do somersaults, enjoy the microgravity, look out of those beautiful windows,” he said, adding that the training for the trip would be “relatively simple.” Blue Origin is yet to reveal how much it’ll cost to go on its 12-minute suborbital adventure, though rival outfit Virgin Galactic has been charging around $250,000 for reservations aboard its SpaceShipTwo rocket plane.
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Lyft Shuttle is a bus service for commuters with fixed routes and fares http://ift.tt/2odxFL0 If you thought Lyft was all about comfy cars and rider-requested pick-up points, think again. The ride-sharing outfit has stared piloting a new service called Shuttle in San Francisco and Chicago. As its name cleverly suggests, Shuttle is essentially a bus service with fixed routes and pre-determined stopping locations. Shuttle is an expansion of Lyft Line, the company’s carpooling service that matches up riders heading in the same direction. Having identified particular commuter routes that consistently see lots of ride requests, Lyft wants to see how its loyal users take to the offer of a ride in a bus instead of a car. Advantages include a regular, reliable service and competitive fixed-fare pricing. This means no sudden price increases during busy times, which is exactly when Shuttle operates — from 6:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., and again from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on weekdays. However, unlike its car-based service, riders will have to walk to the pick-up points rather than designate a spot. Besides aiming at current Lyft users, the company hopes Shuttle will also attract new customers who are yet to sign up to Lyft. More: Ride-sharing showdown — should you grab an Uber, or hail a Lyft? “Lyft Line is the future of rideshare, and we often test new features that we believe will have a positive impact on our passengers’ transportation options,” a Lyft spokesperson said. “We look forward to feedback on Shuttle from the Lyft community [and] we see a number of commuting use cases that this mode will make easier.” Using buses may seem a bit old school for a company considered a disruptor in the transportation space, but its own R&D work suggests it could one day switch to self-driving buses, running them alongside a fleet of driverless cars that Lyft’s boss says could dominate its service by 2021.
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‘Gnog’ reveals its release date in latest level teaser trailer http://ift.tt/2oa7If9 Through the mind of a child, a new toy is more than just an object. Every inch is full of imagination and potential as the child plays with it in their own way. This sense of joyful experimentation is center stage in the upcoming game Gnog. Developed by KO_OP, Gnog is a puzzle adventure game that takes players through multiple interactive monster heads. Each head is its own puzzle that can flip, rotate, and be played with to uncover its secrets. Now, thanks to the most recent level trailer, it has been revealed that Gnog will release on May 2. More: Every page of this book is a complex mechanical puzzle you must solve The new level, Purp-L, is a synth that players can interact with to create music of different types. A small character within the puzzle is feeling uninspired and needs help creating a new song. By pressing, pulling, sliding, clicking, and rotating, it is up to the player to reignite the little songwriter’s passion. In the final game, there will be nine different levels with a dynamic soundtrack and unique experiences. One level tasks the player with navigating the deep ocean. Along the way, players will spin valves and use sonar to find hidden treasures and new species. Another level shoots for the stars but has run into trouble. It is up to the player to help rebuild this spaceship and find its way home. On May 2, Gnog will launch exclusively on the PS4 for $15. Pre-orders are now open and PS Plus members can purchase it at the discounted price of $13.50. Owners of PSVR are encouraged to check it out for a more immersive experience. Virtual reality brings players face to face with each puzzle in a manner that pushes the envelope of that “new toy” feeling. And with respect to other platforms, Gnog will release later this year on Steam and iOS.
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Blossom teams with Pirelli to make rubber skis for a smoother downhill ride http://ift.tt/2ocY4Jh The evolution of ski design began with simple bowed wood and has since been transformed into a technical engineering process utilizing specific arrangements of materials including fiberglass, wood, steel, plastic, and aluminum. Specialty ski designer Blossom and high-end tire company Pirelli have recently added rubber to this list for the first time with the release of the Blossom x Pirelli Rubber-Infused Skis. Downhill ski design principles are based on both performance and comfort, with manufacturers striving to produce the most pleasant ride on the fastest skis. This involves properly arranging materials that provide for enough stiffness to complete quick turns and yet adequate flexibility for gripping snow and reducing uncomfortable vibrations, which also equates to better ski control. More: Hit the slopes in comfort and style with the best ski and snowboard goggles you can buy Blossom Skis is an Italian-based manufacturer that specializes in designing skis out of its factory in Valchiavenna according to individual needs. Its personalized ski technology has historically blended a wood core, melamine and phenol sidewalls, double titanal anti-torsion liners, lamina cups, fiberglass reinforcement, and scratch resistant caps. Pirelli is a prominent tire production company located in Milan and the exclusive supplier for the prestigious Formula One World Championship. Rubber engineers recently tried their hands outside of the automotive realm, producing a compound exclusively for Blossom Skis. The company states that the rubber reduces about 60 percent of vibration typically experienced by skiers on snow. This special rubber has been layered into the Blossom ski core alongside the other materials to provide optimum downhill performance. Blossom x Pirelli Rubber Infused Skis are designed in seven different colors, but only 110 pairs of each will be released into circulation. They will be available for pre-order on the Pirelli Design website for the cost of about $1,520 -- perhaps a fair price to pay for innovation, quicker times, and a more comfortable downhill journey.
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No more “shrink and pink:” Snow brands finally get serious about women’s ski boots http://ift.tt/2oiNdKn While many people point to skis as the most important part of their snow gear quiver, a properly fitting pair of boots tend to matter much more. Of course, boots connect wearers directly to their skis and if they happen to inadequately fit, the impact it has on even the best skiers is a negative one. For women, who often have fewer boot options designed specifically for them, the issue is amplified. Take the general anatomy of a woman compared to a man, for instance. Women tend to feature longer calves, wider hips, a lower center of gravity, shorter femurs, and so on. Taking just this structure into consideration, there’s absolutely no reason for men and women to wear the same style of ski boot. “As recently as 5 years ago, women were not necessarily seeking women-specific skis and boots,” said PSIA National Alpine Team member, Robin Barnes to Digital Trends. “In the past 5 years, more high-end women-specific products have emerged as women are adventure skiing more often, joining expert skiing groups, etc.” This growth in interest by women only helps the case for more specific products. Selkirk Sports’ Josh Parry recognizes this growing trend, classifying it as a “real need for women-specific boots.” Parry is a boot fitter by trade, though in his close circles he’s referred to as the Boot Doctor. Not only does Parry spend his days manipulating boots to fit people but he’s an expert at figuring out what works and what doesn’t. As any avid skier would attest, this skill is priceless. “The number one mistake made is buying boots too big but there are a lot of different factors that go into it,” Parry added. “Women often have smaller skeletons than men, so they will have narrower ankles. Another big factor is women’s calves tend to attach lower than on men and this has the tendency to cause pain, or cramps, in the calf.” Rather than “shrink and pink” like many sports brands have done in the past, the ski industry now takes women’s needs very seriously, as they remain a fast growing market. “Bottom line, if a boot doesn’t fit correctly, it’s not going to be warm or comfortable, and it certainly won’t perform,” added Tecnica market manager, Leslie Baker-Brown to Digital Trends. “Women’s anatomy is different, so it is absolutely necessary to build boots based on this anatomy. Women make up about 40 percent of the market. We felt we could better address this market with better products and messaging, by communicating and educating women to make skiing a better experience for them.” According to SIA Snow reports of 2015, sales of women-specific snow products and gear saw a stark rise in popularity. Tecnica took this data to heart, starting a European focus group and a North American focus group to test, develop, and enhance equipment. The women in these focus groups helped create the Blizzard Black Pearl, the best selling ski in the country for any gender over the ’15-’16 season. Tackling the design of its boots was also a central part of the company’s new program. Tecnica Italy partnered with the University of Verona to test performance on snow. By using sensors under the footboards, Verona measured where a woman’s balance point is regarding their favorable stances. More: Enjoy a day at the mountain in comfort, style with the year’s best snowboard boots “One of the major issues is the lower leg,” explained Brown. “It generally is larger and sits lower on the leg, so it’s difficult to fit. At the same time, there are women with skinny calves that have the opposite problem. We created a solution to be able to adjust the upper collar of the boot and liner so it forms to the shape of the female’s lower leg – whether it needs to allow for a larger calf or a smaller one.” As demand grows and technology expands, the future of proper-fitting women’s products only figures to become much brighter.
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Spice up a desktop’s innards with colorful Corsair Vengeance RGB memory sticks http://ift.tt/2mR3itE Corsair began selling its five new Vengeance RGB DDR4 memory kits, which range in price between $150 and $600, on March 21. As the name implies, these high-performance DDR4 memory sticks sport a “precision-engineered” light bar across the top of the heat spreader to light up the innards of your desktop with various colors and effects. They can even change color based on system temperatures. Here are the specs and pricing of all five kits:
Each Vengeance RGB memory stick consists of a custom performance printed circuit board, hand-screened integrated circuits, and a built-in heat spreader for cool, superior performance no matter the load. The XMP 2.0 support means that each chip can safely switch between preconfigured, tested Intel XMP profiles for safe overclocking. “Vengeance RGB’s Corsair Link software control is compatible with a wide range of Intel DDR4 platforms, from dual-channel Z270 and Z170 to quad-channel X99, with more boards adding compatibility every week and AMD Ryzen support planned soon,” the company said. Corsair added that each Vengeance RGB stick packs “specifically designed” lighting circuitry, meaning users won’t see a memory performance decrease with the lighting enabled. And through the Corsair Link tool, users can synchronize the memory’s lighting and effects with other compatible Corsair products installed in the system. The lighting effects include Static, Rainbow, Breathing, and Color Shift. According to Corsair, the new Vengeance RGB memory sticks are compatible with third-party motherboard software RGB control. The first motherboard maker to embrace Corsair’s colorful new memory is Gigabyte, which now supports Vengeance RGB lighting in its RGB Fusion app. Other motherboard partners will add support for the Vengeance RGB sticks “soon.” As a refresher, CAS latency is the time between the memory controller’s initial command to the availability of stored data on the output pins. Naturally, the smaller the number, the faster the memory performance per clock cycle. The four-digit latency numbers actually represent four parameters: CAS latency, Row Address to Column Address Delay, Row Percentage Time, and Row Active Time. Thus, for an additional $5, customers get less latency and higher memory speeds using the CMR16GX4M2C3000C15 kit than they would with the CMR16GX4M2A2666C16 kit. But the performance increase also increases the power draw, upping the usage to 1.35 volts from 1.2 volts.
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Turd vs. tech: Inside the bizarre quest to build a poop-scooping drone http://ift.tt/2nkKak7 People in tech like to dream big. Steve Jobs wanted to take personal computers and transform them from geeky gadgets for a few hobbyists into beautiful consumer-friendly items found in every home. Google’s founders wish for a world in which they can make information universally accessible and useful. Gerben Lievers wants to use drones and ground-based robots to clean up dog poop. More: Halt! A new home security system deploys a drone to patrol your property The 30-year old founder and strategy director of Tinki.nl, a Netherlands-based canine price comparison website (comparing accessory prices; not the dogs themselves), Lievers said that the one thing that upsets him about dog ownership is the 220 million pounds of dog droppings that are not properly disposed of in the Netherlands alone each year. “We hear a lot of people complaining about dog poo,” he told Digital Trends. “One day I decided to try and think of a way to help solve the problem.” While most of us would probably write an upset letter to the newspaper, or our local congressman, Lievers stumbled upon another possible solution. “I was at an entrepreneur evening, and after the show I got talking to someone who was working in the drone business,” he continued. “We ended up talking about dog poo, and I asked him how he would consider solving it with drones. We agreed to meet up again, and to go to the drawing table to try and come up with a solution for this big problem. On paper it was perfect. Then we built a prototype, and it actually worked!” The first prototype the pair — Lievers and the brains behind drone company Space53 — came up with represented a two-part attack on dog mess. The aerial component consists of a drone called Watchdog 1, which sports thermal imaging for spotting errant canine coils, based on their warm temperatures compared to the surrounding area. This data is then translated into GPS coordinates and transmitted to a ground-based robot called Patroldog 1, which trundles off to collect its foul-smelling prize. More: Piqapoo is the Kickstarter accessory that will collect your dog’s poop “We tried [a version] that was more like a vacuum cleaner to suck it up, and one with arms that could [pick up the poo],” Lievers said. “In the end, the vacuum cleaner was better because of the different consistencies. That way the poo is also completely gone so the entire area is left clean.” So engineering problem solved, right? Not quite. “The prototype we’re now working on deals with the problem that some dog poo is older and no longer warm,” he noted. “To get around this challenge, we use recognition software to determine that it’s dog poo.” The team is Developing these tools with some help from researchers at the nearby University of Twente. “When I first contacted them on the phone, they laughed, but then I explained how serious I was,” he said. As far as recognition tasks go, Lievers said that dog deposits are just another object to detect. “It’s a bit like facial recognition,” he explained, making the faces/faeces comparison we never wanted to hear. “Every face looks different, but they’re recognized as faces. That’s the same with the technology we’re using here with poo. The form and shape may be different with each one, but when you have a database with enough training images it’s possible. There may be some false positives in it, but most will be recognized.” Improving the database of poop-related pictures, he said, could end up relying on crowdsourcing. “It may be that people will need to send us pictures of the poo of their dog in order to train our machines to be better,” he suggested. So what’s next? “We hope to trial the prototypes in a few neighborhoods where the dog poo is really a big challenge as early as the end of this year, or the beginning of next year,” he explained. “A lot of this depends on how the technology can be developed, however, as well as how willing the government is to take part.” Lievers’ hope is that local governments will provide funding for the project, with the idea that neighborhood volunteers can then be trained to fly the drones themselves, since they’re not yet autonomous. He also wants to expand Patroldog 1’s storage space, since currently it can only handle a “few handfuls of poo.” Which leaves just one question: is this all a big joke? After all, when he’s not working at Tinki.nl, Lievers is also the owner of an award-winning digital marketing agency, Team Nijhuis. “When change appears, people always think like this,” he said, bristling slightly at the suggestion. “We’ve had a lot of questions from people asking if this an April Fool’s joke. It’s not. I hadn’t even thought about that. Technology makes our lives better. This is an example of one way it can do it. When people tell me they think this is a joke I ask them why. I want people to shoot holes in the idea, because that way we can make it better.” Just so long as you don’t shoot holes in it anywhere near our nice clean front yard!
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FCC pushes Lifeline broadband subsidy approval back to the states http://ift.tt/2mQMLpD The Federal Communications Commission has undergone a few changes since the recent transition to a new president. The new FCC Chairman, Ajit Pai, has been at the heart of a few of those changes and a recent decision to alter the agency’s Lifeline subsidies for broadband subsidies is the latest. At the heart of Pai decision is a change to how companies can be approved to participate in the Lifeline program with regard to broadband services. This change basically reverses a change from 2016 that would have expanded approvals from the states to include the FCC, Ars Technica reports. More: The FCC just rolled back some of its privacy rules, reversing previous positions Lifeline is a federal program that provides a $9.25 per month subsidy to low-income citizens that can be applied toward telecommunications and broadband services. Not just any telecom or broadband company can participate in the program, however. Approval must be granted first, which was originally provided on a state-by-state basis. A March 2016 rule changed that process, adding the FCC itself as an “additional alternative.” As the FCC stated when passing that rule change, “This action preserves states’ authority to designate ETCs [eligible telecommunications carriers] to receive Lifeline reimbursement for qualifying voice and/or broadband services, while adding to that structure the option for carriers to seek designation as Lifeline Broadband Providers through the FCC.” This change allowed companies to avoid getting approval from every state that they served. A total of nine broadband providers were granted approval by the FCC under the new rules, which Pai rescinded earlier this year. In addition, 36 approvals are pending FCC approval and Pai opposes those as well. That would leave 259 out of the more than 900 Lifeline providers who are offering subsidized broadband services, and those same companies provide service to 99.6 percent of those customer receiving a broadband subsidy. The immediate impact is therefore on the remaining 0.4 percent who will need to find another approved provider or lose subsidized broadband services. Unsurprisingly, there is significant opposition to the rule change. Mignon Clyburn an FCC commissioner and a Democrat, asserted that the result will be fewer choices for low-income Americans in selecting a subsidized broadband provider. “While today’s announcement is not surprising, it is nonetheless deeply disappointing,” Clyburn stated. Pai counters that argument by alleging significant fraud in the Lifeline program. While the FCC’s March 2016 rule created a national eligibility verifier to help avoid fraud, Pai asserts that the states remain the proper agents for keeping the program clean. For now, at least, it’s with those same states that Lifeline broadband approvals will remain.
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