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Weekly output: TikTok fine, AI and healthcare, fixed wireless access, Google’s latest AI travel-search tools

About four years ago here, I wrote here that I had to bring my family to the Kennedy Space Center someday so they could see why I’m so crazy about watching rocket launches in person. I finally made that happen with Sunday morning’s launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope on a Falcon Heavy rocket. The sound from the KSC visitor’s center, about seven miles from historic Launch Complex 39A, wasn’t nearly as loud as from the center’s press site. But the sonic booms of the rocket’s two side boosters landing may have been even louder than I remembered from 2018’s debut of that SpaceX rocket.

8/24/2026: TikTok Hit With $400 Million Fine for Violating Children’s Privacy Law, PCMag

The Friday-news-dump timing of the Department of Justice’s release about this settlement gave me a little extra time to gather some context about how much this fine might actually hurt the short-form video platform. Answer: not much!

8/26/2026: The Doctor Is Not Real. More Americans Comfortable Consulting AI for Health Info, PCMag

I’d missed chances to cover the last couple of interesting Pew reports about attitudes towards AI, but I did have barely-enough time Tuesday to read and write up this pair.

8/27/2026: 5G Home Broadband Is Soaring in Urban Areas, and This Carrier Comes Out on Top, PCMag

A report with a conclusion that I didn’t expect from an organization whose work I trust always gets my attention.

8/27/2026: Google’s AI Mode Can Track Flight Prices, Help You Book With Points or Miles, PCMag

Appropriately enough, I wrote this from the airport in San Diego. For additional insights about the utility of these tools from somebody with what I’m sure is millions of miles more travel experience than me, see Matthew Klint’s take at Live and Let’s Fly.

Weekly output: inflight WiFi, Visible’s prepaid Verizon home 5G, Uber’s travel ambitions, AT&T emergency response

Happy World Press Freedom Day to all who celebrate! Which should be all who don’t want to accept the lies of people in power.

I wrote an extra post for Patreon readers Wednesday explaining three fair ways that you can take one story idea and sell it more than once.

4/28/2026: Looking for Fast Wi-Fi on Your Next Flight? Pick an Airline With Starlink, PCMag

This was going to be a straightforward writeup of Ookla’s report about Speedtest measurements of inflight connectivity, but some details seemed just off enough to require follow-up questions.

4/29/2026: Verizon’s Visible Prepaid Brand Adds $300-Per-Year 5G Home Broadband, PCMag

This was going to be a a straightforward writeup of Verizon’s prepaid brand reselling Verizon’s fixed-wireless home broadband at a discount, but then I couldn’t get Visible’s site to show me the FCC-mandated broadband-facts label or even let me start a service order.

5/1/2026: Uber wants to be your travel agent, concierge, and personal shopper next, Fast Company

I took a day trip to New York Wednesday to cover Uber’s Go-Get press event. This Amtrak run was not like any of the others I’ve taken earlier between D.C. and NYC because it featured infrastructure that hadn’t been first built by the Pennsylvania Railroad 90-plus years ago: the new Portal Bridge in the Meadowlands, which is replacing a janky old drawbridge that sometimes gets stuck open.

5/1/2026: For AT&T, Disaster Recovery Includes Flying COWs and a Robot Dog, PCMag

I spent a couple of hours in one of the parking lots next to the former site of RFK Stadium–it’s still weird to see nothing where that concrete donut had stood since 1961–to check out the exhibit of emergency-response hardware that AT&T had set up there.

Weekly output: NASA reopens lunar-lander contract, Verizon adds “Lite” home-5G plan

I got out of bed earlier than usual today to go cheer for people who had woken much earlier to go run 26.2 miles, because I see supporting people running the Marine Corps Marathon as a civic duty. Saturday saw me taking on another civic duty: poll-worker training for the 15-plus-hour day I have coming up Nov. 4.

Patreon readers got a bonus post from me this week: an explanation of why it pays for freelancers to know which topics don’t have full-time coverage by a staff writer at a client.

10/21/2025: NASA Reopens Lunar Lander Contract, and Elon Musk Is Big Mad, PCMag

I wasn’t sure that NASA acting administrator Sean Duffy saying that the space agency would seek new bids to build a lunar lander for the first U.S. moon landing since 1972 would amount to a PCMag story. And then Elon went on a rage-tweeting spree about that…

10/23/2025: Verizon Adds Cheaper, Data-Capped ‘Lite’ Wireless Home Broadband Option, PCMag

Verizon is a few years behind T-Mobile in selling a data-capped version of its home fixed-wireless service in areas with limited capacity, but its data cap is much more forgiving than T-Mobile’s.

#ArtemisIII #ElonMuskX #fixedWireless #FWA #HLS #home5G #moonLanding #SeanDuffy #Starship #Verizon5GHome

Weekly output: Next Big Things in Tech (x3), Starship, T-Satellite, prepaid home wireless broadband

A months-in-the-work project finally reached the publication stage this week, which felt good–if not as good as invoicing for this project. Another high point of this week: spending a chunk of Saturday afternoon at the No Kings demonstration in D.C. and seeing how strong the protest-sign game remains in my city.

10/14/2025: The 5 next big things in space and telecom for 2025, Fast Company

Once again, my work on Fast Company’s Next Big Things in Tech list (NBTT for short) started with judging entries in the converging industries of space and telecom.

10/14/2025: The 4 next big things in robotics and automation for 2025, Fast Company

This is another category I’ve judged before, but most of the companies I considered this year were new to my work at Fast Co.

10/14/2025: These 4 innovations help solve critical issues for North America, Fast Company

This was a new addition to my NBTT work, and deciding what made companies worthy of this honor in this geographically-defined category got tricky at times.

10/14/2025: Starship’s Version 2 Flies for the Last Time, Splashes Down in One Piece, PCMag

I wrote this recap of Starship’s 11th flight test Monday night and then revised the piece slightly Tuesday morning–hours before SpaceX released video of Starship’s upper stage looking more than a little cooked as it lowered itself into the Indian Ocean.

10/16/2025: Who’s on T-Satellite? T-Mobile Dominates, But Verizon Customers Say No Thanks, PCMag

One surprise of this study from Ookla was how many AT&T subscribers chose to pay $10 a month extra to T-Mobile for Starlink satellite roaming; another was how rarely wireless users now find themselves without a terrestrial signal.

10/17/2025: T-Mobile, Verizon Now Selling 5G Home Internet Service Via Their Prepaid Brands, PCMag

Telecom-industry analyst Jeff Moore e-mailed me about the impending launch of resold Verizon fixed-wireless-access broadband by its Tracfone subsidiary, then T-Mobile’s Mint Mobile subsidiary started reselling its parent firm’s FWA. Moore then gave me some useful insight about the state of prepaid home wireless broadband.

#911inform #AES #EascraBiotech #fixedWireless #Heven #home5G #ImpulseSpace #MintMobile #MobileX #Ookla #OWLIntegrations #PilaEnergy #ProRataAi #ServeRobotics #SpaceXStarship #Starlink #Starship #TMobileStarlink #TSatellite #TracFone #USMobile #Vantor #Varda

After clocking 17 days in a row of work–thanks to the run-up to CES, CES itself, and then needing to catch up on projects set aside during that week in Vegas–I ditched professional obligations Monday to go skiing. And then I answered some business e-mails from the chairlift anyway.

1/23/2024: T-Mobile Plans to Deprioritize ‘Heavy Data’ Users of Its Home 5G, PCMag

Once again, Reddit enlightened me about a plot twist at a company I cover–this time, in the form of a post on r/tmobile pointing to a report of T-Mobile stepping slightly away from offering unlimited data on its fixed-wireless service. I e-mailed the company for comment Monday night, got a reply hours later and wrote this post Tuesday morning.

1/24/2024: Connected-car ambitions risk collision with regulators’ concerns, Light Reading

This post closed out my CES 2024 coverage, and I had planned to write it sooner. But after a few days of being in the weeds with other deadlines, I realized that the Washington Auto Show’s public-policy day would probably yield useful quotes from policymakers about the privacy implications of the connected-car tech that I’d seen hyped at CES. Fortunately, my editor agreed with my suggestion that I hold off on filing this post so I could fold in that later reporting.

https://robpegoraro.com/2024/01/28/weekly-output-t-mobile-fixed-wireless-gets-a-little-less-generous-connected-car-concerns/

#AWSAutomotive #ces #connectedCars #fixedWireless #home5G #Qualcomm #TMobile #TMobileHome5G #WashingtonAutoShow