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3. Service Workers

Dennis Sheppard

(1)Tinley Park, Illinois, USA

How’s your cell phone signal right now? Are you on a capped data plan? Is your WiFi spotty? Maybe your roommate is torrenting movies and taking all the bandwidth. Perhaps you’re commuting on a train, and your cell provider’s coverage map claims the whole route is blanketed in LTE, but all you see is a perpetually spinning circle of no Internet and you start to question what you’re even paying for. But take deep breaths. Whatever the reason for your lack of a great Internet connection, there’s no reason to be ashamed. It’s not your fault.

There are a number of ...

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