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MIT wireless system can monitor what care facility residents are doing while preserving privacy

Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have developed a way for a fully wireless system to monitor not only movement and vital signs contact-free, but also

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Verizon adds free Hulu and ESPN+ to some unlimited wireless plans

Verizon and Disney announced this morning that they’re extending and expanding a partnership that gives some Verizon Wireless subscribers access to Disney’s streaming services at no additi

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Power electronics and wireless charging startup Eggtronic raises $10M Series A

Eggtronic, the Italy-founded startup developing power electronics, wireless charging and data over power technology and products, has closed around $10 million in Series A funding.Backing the company

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Trump administration announces major midband spectrum auction for 5G

5G is increasingly coming into focus as a set of technologies that has the potential to dramatically expand the quality, bandwidth, and range of wireless connectivity. One of the major blocks to actua

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R&D Roundup: Supercomputer COVID-19 insights, ionic spiderwebs, the whiteness of AI

I see far more research articles than I could possibly write up. This column collects the most interesting of those papers and advances, along with notes on why they may prove important in the world o

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Eight trends accelerating the age of commercial-ready quantum computing

Every major technology breakthrough of our era has gone through a similar cycle in pursuit of turning fiction to reality.It starts in the stages of scientific discovery, a pursuit of principle against

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SMIC founder believes China can catch up with U.S. in semiconductors

VCG The founder of China's largest chipmaker SMIC said on Tuesday he was "optimistic" China could catch up with the United States in the next generation of semiconductors but that U.S. efforts

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The Galaxy Tab S7 will bring 5G to Samsung’s tablet line

Samsung’s going all in on 5G. The company was an early adopter for the next-gen wireless technology and has just offered it across the newly announce Galaxy Note 20. Turns out its new tablets will be

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Samsung’s new Galaxy Buds Live bring active noise cancelation for $170

Samsung’s made quality earbuds for a number of years now. They’re never particularly exciting or innovative, but they’re always a solid choice in an overcrowded market. Today’s big Unpacked event adds

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Samsung unveils new products - including phone that can stream Xbox games

In a partnership with Microsoft, the Korean company is offering consumers a lot of integration with Windows 10 computers.

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Microsoft showcases mobile gaming accessories designed to work with Xbox cloud gaming

Way back in the before times of October 2019, Microsoft announced that it would be expanding its Designed for Xbox stamp of approval to a line of mobile accessories. The play was pretty obvious: The c

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Foxconn, Samsung apply for India's smartphone scheme

Foxconn in Shanghai, China, June 20, 2020/VCG Photo Apple Inc's supplier Foxconn, Wistron Corp and Pegatron Corp have applied for funds from India's 6.65 billion U.S. dollars scheme to boost s

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Washington's reversal of fortune: Huawei becomes top smartphone seller

A Huawei retail store in Beijing, July 30, 2019. /AP Editor's note:Bobby Naderi is a journalist, guest contributor in print, radio and television, documentary filmmaker and member of the Write

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Amazon gains FCC approval for Kuiper internet satellite constellation and commits $10 billion to the project

Amazon has received approval from the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch and operate a planned constellation of 3,236 internet satellites. That’s the backbone of Amazon̵

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Rumor Buster: Is metal strip in medical masks 5G antenna?

A video posted on Facebook claiming that the metal strip in medical masks serves as a 5G antenna has drawn widespread attention. But it is now time for rumor spreaders to wake up. "The antenna k

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Nebraska and Iowa win advanced wireless testbed grants for rural broadband

Everyone wants more bandwidth from the skies, but it takes a lot of testing to turn laboratory research projects into real-world performant infrastructure. A number of new technologies, sometimes plac

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Amazon revamps its Alexa app to focus on first-party features, more personalization

After launching a number of new developer tools for Alexa last week, Amazon today introducing an updated version of its Alexa mobile app for consumers. The new app aims