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United plans to boost its in-flight entertainment options with free satellite Wi-Fi service from SpaceX’s Starlink. In an announcement, the airline said its fleet of mainline and regional aircraft, more than 1,000 planes, will receive the Wi-Fi service starting sometime next year after it begins testing in early 2025.

The company said it will deliver comparable Wi-Fi to what customers get on the ground, even at 35,000 feet, to enable services including TV streaming, gaming and social media on seatback screens as well as personal devices for fliers. The rollout will happen over several years and will make in-flight internet accessible in places “previously unreachable by traditional cell or Wi-Fi signals” such as oceans and polar regions, United said in its release. 

The service, United…

Both iOS 17 and especially iOS 18 have given iPhone users some major new features, but it’s hard not look back fondly on iOS 16. Personalizing your lock screen and editing iMessages are something you see or use potentially on a daily basis, so its presence is still felt today. 

Another small, quality of life feature update released in iOS 16 was the ability to view and copy your Wi-Fi passwords much easier than previous versions of the OS. 

Before iOS 16, when trying to connect to Wi-Fi, other iOS devices on the same SSID would be pinged that someone was trying to connect to the network, which could easily be shared. It worked (and still does) in a…

1Password, the creator of one of our picks for the best password managers around right now, has made it easier than ever to share Wi-Fi passwords.

Wi-Fi passwords are often long, confusing, and difficult to remember, so having a method to share it quickly and easily can save time and frustration.

This episode of The Chrome Cast was a tad bit different than most, but it was a great conversation. We begin the show reviewing our recent web hosting woes and the direction we’ve finally taken to escape them. While many of our listeners may not be looking for quality web hosting at the moment, it doesn’t mean you all won’t be on the receiving end of a much faster, much more optimized Chrome Unboxed website moving forward. We’re excited about where we’ve landed and only expect the user experience to get better and better with our new hosting partner: Kinsta.

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For the second part of the show, we discuss the emergence of a possible new Nest Wi-Fi with a much needed upgrade on board: Wi-Fi 6. With this tech, routers are much better at overall bandwidth throughput and…