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…
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 —…
Apple’s biggest new product is almost here — and no, it’s not a device with a screen. This grand opening has been years in the making. Apple’s new campus now has a name and an opening date. It’ll be called Apple Park and the first employees will move in April 2017, nearly six years after its…
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…
Why UPS trucks almost never turn left? By avoiding left-hand turns, among other route optimizations, UPS says it saves 10 million gallons of fuel a year. So, unless a left is unavoidable — the carrier saves millions of gallons of fuel each year, and avoids emissions equivalent to over 20,000 passenger cars. The practice started decades…
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…
When you feel your Internet connection slowing down, it is because of tangible facts and there is a reasonable explanation for that. The average Charter/Spectrum customer shares their internet connection with up to 499 of their neighbors, according to an admission made today by Charter Communications CEO Thomas Rutledge. “Our average node size is around…
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 your new drone just got missing ? Like any good pilot, James Michael knows the number of successful landings should equal the number of successful take-offs, but that’s easier said than done with a toy drone. James is being extra careful with his quad-copter because of what happened with the first one he got for Christmas. “I…