It is generally accepted that new generations are more advanced than previous generations. The same can be said for network technologies. Just as 4G increased speeds tenfold when it was introduced in the late 2000s, the fifth-generation wireless network promises eclipse 4G capabilities in terms of speed, latency and connectivity. The basic architecture is the […]
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Pegasus Spyware has emerged as a dangerous threat, as it requires one wrong click on a message or email to pass the entire phone to a remote bad guy. For example, the phone remains under hostile control forever. In some cases, applications such as Pegasus can be installed even if the user never clicks on
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Has the computer become a black box, even to experienced electrical engineers? Will we be forever reliant upon large, opaque organizations to build them for us? Absolutely not, we say. And to prove our point, we built our very own laptop, from the circuit boards on up. Admittedly, we did not delude ourselves that we
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Hagarty-Solari and her neighbor Judy were never far from each other, but first Judy lost the signal from her cell phone, and then Hagarty-Solars lost hers when she was driving through flames — even though she was in a rag with convertible-because at that moment there was no going back. Not surprisingly, they lost the
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Can you imagine keeping the same cell phone as you switch from one service provider to another to take advantage of deals and new phone service options? A new technology called software-defined radio could make that possible–of course, assuming that service providers choose to adopt it. As any reader of the business pages knows, the
