Illustration: Tavis Coburn Time was when most radio sets had no software at all, and those that had any didn’t do much with it. But Joseph Mitola III, an engineer working for a company called E-Systems (now part of Raytheon), envisioned something very different—a mostly digital radio that could be reconfigured in fundamental ways just …
Illustration: Sean McCabe; Above: Fiat; Average: Christine Balderas / iStockphoto; Below: Bugatti Automobiles SAS High-circulation magazines do some things well, but serious coverage of technology is usually not one of them. First, these are business stores for which technology coverage usually means financial development reports of companies that accidentally offer technology-related products or services, as …
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 …
