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A Scots designer has reinvented the most commonly used kitchen appliance after witnessing his ageing grandmother’s struggles.

Deadline: 11-Jan-23 Microsoft Accessibility in partnership with Philanthropies Tech for Social Impact (TSI) has launched the Accessibility Nonprofit Tech

Sight Tech Global announced the agenda for their virtual, free and highly accessible event on December 7 and 8, with some of the world’s top experts working on assistive tech for people who are blind or visually impaired.

Poor, minority neighborhoods get worst internet deals

The neighborhoods offered the worst deals had lower median incomes in nine out of 10 cities in the analysis.

An analysis of data gathered on 800,000 internet service offers in 38 U.S. cities shows that poor and less white neighborhoods get the worst deals. A closer look.

Internet prices are not regulated by the federal government because it is not considered a utility. As a result, providers can make their own decisions about where they provide service and how much to charge.

In many cases, the poorest and least white parts of a city only are offered service thats so slow it doesnt meet federal regulators definition of broadband — and providers regularly charge the same amount for that service as they do for their fastest speeds in other neighborhoods.

A couple of years into the pandemic, Shirley Neville had finally had enough of her shoddy internet service.

An investigation has found that internet service providers often offer drastically different speeds to different customers, even in different parts of the same city.