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Once again, the city of Seattle is letting CenturyLink decide how and where digital services will be upgraded on public property.

The broadband boost that Comcast announced last month — doubling speeds for most customers in Washington — is taking effect.

The closer you look at the Net neutrality debate, the more complicated it becomes.

Consider a new report from the Progressive Policy Institute, pointing out the taxes expected to result if broadband is reclassified as an essential service.

All of a sudden, a whole neighborhood in Seattle is getting the sort of ultrafast broadband service that the city has craved for years.

It may not change the way people feel about Comcast, but the company is planning to double the speed of Internet service for most of its Puget Sound customers by the end of the year for no additional charge.

CenturyLink is finally offering ultrafast broadband service to some Seattle neighborhoods but only pockets of the city will be served as the project rolls out over the next year.

Nearly a week after one of its Loon balloons crashed into a power pole near Yakima, Google acknowledged the incident.

Before it launches self-driving cars, Google might want to sort out its autonomous aircraft, one of which crashed into a mint field near Yakima yesterday.

Screengrab from Google Project Loon video

Seattle likely will get somewhat faster broadband in the coming year from CenturyLink, but some homeowners may not cheer the upgrade.

We may have a solution to global warming at hand.

When things get too hot to bear, we can try bouncing the sun’s energy back into space by laying our flat-panel TVs, tablet computers and smartphones out on our roofs and yards.

A 4K TV presented at CES today by Panasonic. Image from Panasonic.