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March 21, 2021 | 1:43 pm EDT by Shelly Palmer Shelly Palmer: “Whenever I’m asked about the fate of the television business, I always answer, ‘As goes the next NFL deal, so goes TV.’ Well, as everyone with even the slightest interest in the subject already knows, the NFL/TV deal is done—but times have changed. The NFL deal makes it very clear that it is time for the FCC to think seriously about reclaiming the spectrum gifted to the local broadcast industry. It is also time for Congress to craft policies that not only respect the state of today’s technology but aspire to leverage t...

Article content Get the year’s best books through the Brantford Public Library’s pickup service and eBook and audiobook apps. During the provincial COVID-19 shutdown, the library is offering a pickup service at both the main and St. Paul branches. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Library offers pickup services during pandemic shutdown Back to video To reserve books, call 519-756-2220, ext. 2, or use an online account, which is available through the library’s website. There are a few books that have been appearing on several best-of-2020 lis...

There was a quiet but serious shift in mainstream thought about technology underway this year, even before everything went to hell. Most years, the release schedule for tech books is brimming with startup hagiographies, founder profiles, tech guru memoirs, and business and management tomes, with a few “critical” titles thrown in — your exposés and polemics and kids-are-using-their-phones-too-much tirades. This year, which I observed from my high and mighty perch as editor of OneZero’s books department, the ratio seemed to be firmly reversed — the blow-by-blow accounts of tech worl...

The 7 new books that helped me escape this year Today's best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter I have a reader's confession to make: When quarantine was first announced, part of me was … excited. The mayor is telling me to stay inside and not interact with other people? It seemed like the perfect scenario for getting through a healthy chunk of my massive to-read pile. But the appeal sputtered out almost immediately. Any time I opened a book, I'd get distracted. I had a hard time focusing, my mind racing back to vulnerable family members and the ever-rising numbe...

MCD / WIRED It's been a year for glumly refreshing live blogs and breaking news websites. But we have managed to get some reading done too. Here, our writers and editors have picked out our favourite books released in 2020 across the broad range of areas that WIRED covers. Uncanny Valley, by Anna Wiener In this memoir, New Yorker tech correspondent Anna Wiener recounts her experiences as a millennial diving into San Francisco’s tech startup scene. Disillusioned with her job in publishing, Wiener moves from New York to Silicon Valley, with its promises of building a better future for all �...