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Welcome to Tech News Briefing.

It's Monday, September 9th.

I'm Zoe Thomas for the Wall Street Journal.

Wi-Fi on planes often isn't very good.

Sometimes it's so slow you can barely load a webpage but other times you can stream a movie.

So what gives? The W.S.J. tested Wi-Fi on over 50 flights.

We're going to tell you why internet speeds can vary so much and why things

could soon be getting better.

And then, downsizing in the video game industry has grown rampant.

Our reporter, Sarah Needleman, will tell us why,

and what that means for workers who thought they had found their dream jobs. But first, our senior personal tech columnist Joanna Stern went on quite a journey this summer,

all to test in-flight Wi-Fi.

She also enlisted the help of Wall Street Journal colleagues on their summer travels.

Together they gathered data about internet performance on over 50 flights across eight airlines.

And Joanna is here to tell us why some in-flight Wi-Fi is far superior to others.

So Joanna, there are a few different ways planes get the internet. One is 3G, which some of us will remember having on our cell phones in the mid-2000s. How does this type of connection work?

When we first started getting in-flight Wi-Fi

over a decade ago, this was the type of technology.

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