What is Software Defined Radio? With the exponential growth in the ways and means by which people need to communicate – data communications, voice communications, video communications, broadcast messaging, command and control communications, emergency response communications, etc. – modifying radio devices easily and cost-effectively has become business critical. Software defined radio (SDR) technology brings the…
Wires and tubes and lots of glass and plastic, that’s what TV recyclers usually find inside old sets. But for one worker in Canada, the discovery of a secret box helped jar the memory of a forgotten inheritance. More than $100,000 in cash was found inside a television that was being processed at an Ontario…
If you could create a digital version of yourself to stick around long after you’ve died, would you want to? The digital version could comfort your mother, joke with your friends — it would have your sense of humor. But it would also have your other traits, perhaps the ones you’re not proud of —…
A “Project Neon” will give your Windows 10 PC a fresh coat of paint later in 2017. Microsoft’s planning a sleek visual refresh for Windows 10, and the company quietly teased its first official glimpse of what’s coming in the future during the Windows Developer Day keynote a few days ago. There aren’t many details being…
The Walt Disney Co. is more than just its theme parks and movies; it also has a technological research arm. Disney Research is a network of laboratories that research topics such as robotics, data mining and wireless communication. Researchers there recently revealed they had developed a new method for wirelessly transmitting power throughout a room. The…
You might not want VR in your living room just yet, but Modal VR thinks you’ll try it at the mall. In 1972, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell invented Pong, a version of table tennis that, in many ways, launched the video-game industry. Forty-five years later, Bushnell is using that same simple game to test the…
So, what do you want to watch now? If you read a lot about the television industry, you can’t help but be aware of the hallelujah chorus proclaiming the death of the TV “bundle”, the pre-set group of networks that MVPDs offer to consumers at various price points. These articles inevitably have a graphic that…
Is that time for cyborgs? Lepht Anonym wants everyone to know the door to transcending normal human capabilities is no farther away than your own kitchen. It’s just going to hurt like a sonofabitch. Anonym is a biohacker, a woman who has spent the last several years learning how to extend her own senses by putting…
Facebook has been posting big gains on the back of advertising this year, but it looks like not all is well in the world of ad metrics on the social network. Today the social network admitted that it has discovered some bugs and errors in its system that have led to misreporting numbers across four products, including Instant Articles, video…
In a non-descript office in central London, young analytical minds are hard at work crunching thousands of pieces of data about every American adult. They are a secret political weapon. A recent campaign paid more than $5 million in September alone to Cambridge Analytica, which claims it can convince voters to back him by tailoring the candidate political…