As the four major wireless carriers resurrect unlimited data plans, CRN breaks down the details of each plan. Here’s what you can expect.
Unlimited Is In
In an effort to up the ante in an already crowded, competitive wireless market, carriers are bringing back the ever-stylish unlimited data plan of years past.
The caveat? The new plans have some limits. While AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon are all coming to the table with unlimited data offerings, many of these plans include data caps that ratchet users down from their 4G LTE networks to a slower network speed after a specified amount of gigabits (GBs) are used each month. Some carriers are also downgrading video quality after a data cap is reached.

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Speaking at the annual cybersecurity conference, Tyson calls Edward Snowden patriotic and held forth on the importance of science
Neil deGrasse Tyson takes the stage at the annual RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco.
Neil deGrasse Tyson didn’t have much to say about cybersecurity at the RSA conference on Thursday — but nobody much cared.
The tech industry folks gathered at the annual cybersecurity conference soaked up Tyson’s enthusiastic talk on the most exciting developments in science today, which ranged from exoplanets to gravity waves. Tyson also stressed the importance of creating a society that values science.
«The culture of science is not everywhere,» Tyson warned. «It should not be taken for granted. »
For a brief moment, Tyson touched on the hot-button issue of encryption, or scrambled up communications. But rather than comment on whether the US government should be able to restrict encrypted communications — a topic debated in heated tones in the cybersecurity community and beyond — Tyson pointed out that aliens might have much more sophisticated encryption technology than we humans do.
They might be able to disguise their chatter so that it’s «indistinguishable from the din of space,» he said.
It’s a topic he’d touched on in a talk with Edward Snowden in September 2015. On Thursday, Tyson told the crowd, «Edward Snowden is the most patriotic person I have met,» which was met with light applause.
Here’s what’s on Tyson’s list of exciting science developments to watch:

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Uber has always pitched itself as edgy disruptor, but according to Federal Court of Australia, it turns out Uber is just a big corporation like any other.
UberX drivers might be ordinary people, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have to pay tax.
Uber has always sat in a weird place in terms of regulation. It doesn’t consider itself an employer, but it employs thousands of «driver partners» around the world. It has a presence in Australia, but it’s not based in Australia for tax purposes.
Think of it kind of like Schroedinger’s Cab.
But the company has now been hit with a pretty clear label when it comes to paying taxes, after the Federal Court of Australia ruled that UberX ridesharing is classified as a «taxi service» when it comes to paying tax.
It’s another regulation slapped on a company that has been pushing back against the way its business has been classified around the world.
The company first applied to the Australian Federal Court in 2015 to contest an order by the Australian Taxation Office, calling on UberX drivers to pay a 10 percent Goods and Service Tax. The GST is levied on the majority of goods and services sold in Australia.
Uber tried to argue that UberX was not the same as a taxi or limousine service, which are required to pay GST, claiming that cars are not marked as taxis, drivers do not wear uniforms and they cannot accept fares off the street.
But the Judge presiding on the case deemed that one of the driver partners mentioned in proceedings, Brian Colin Fine, was in fact offering taxi travel through UberX.
Furthermore, the court ruled that Uber couldn’t claim Mr Fine was offering a limousine service, throwing in a pretty backhanded insult about his car in the process.
«I consider that the Honda Civic vehicle which he used on the relevant day is not a luxury car, with the consequence that Mr Fine was not on that day supplying a service which involved travel by limousine. «

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