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Alphabet spins off Starlink competitor Taara
(www.theverge.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Yea no. This company might even sincerely want to do its own constillation yet I doubt that. This is just to give the optics of 'see! Musk isn't a monopoly!' along with 'see! we're not trump's puppets! We're fighting against President Musk!'
Same as their halfhearted attempts at laying fiber.
google laid fiber to make the others panic and impliment fiber