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Ham Radio Jamming, Wireless Industry Battlegrounds, and IoT in Space

29 Δεκεμβρίου 2021 by paulkokos

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Communications bring us all together, and people are always experimenting with new ways to communicate. Despite—or perhaps because of—the global pandemic, 2021 saw plenty of new innovations for communications technologies. 5G has cemented its place in the cellular world, even as the industry looks towards 6G. Companies experimented with new…

A Robot for the Worst Job in the Warehouse

28 Δεκεμβρίου 2021 by paulkokos

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As COVID-19 stresses global supply chains, the logistics industry is looking to automation to help keep workers safe and boost their efficiency. But there are many warehouse operations that don’t lend themselves to traditional automation—namely, tasks where the inputs and outputs of a process aren’t always well defined and can’t…

The Chip Shortage, Giant Chips, and the Future of Moore’s Law

28 Δεκεμβρίου 2021 by paulkokos

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With COVID-19 shaking the global supply chain like an angry toddler with a box of jelly beans, the average person had to take a crash course in the semiconductor industry. And many of them didn't like what they learned. Want a new car? Tough luck, not enough chips. A new…

Frontier Supercomputer to Usher in Exascale Computing

23 Δεκεμβρίου 2021 by paulkokos

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In 2018, a new supercomputer called Summit was installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Tennessee. Its theoretical peak capacity was nearly 200 petaflops—that’s 200 thousand trillion floating-point operations per second. At the time, it was the most powerful supercomputer in the world, beating out the previous record holder, China’s…

Google Tool Joins Ferocious Hunt for Log4j Bug

23 Δεκεμβρίου 2021 by paulkokos

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A major bug in a widely-used piece of open source software called Log4j has thrown the IT world into pandemonium. The hole was not even made public a month ago (as of this writing), and yet it’s already been classified by Internet security analysts as among the biggest vulnerabilities in…

Memory Chips That Compute Will Accelerate AI

22 Δεκεμβρίου 2021 by paulkokos

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John von Neumann’s original computer architecture, where logic and memory are separate domains, has had a good run. But some companies are betting that it’s time for a change. In recent years, the shift toward more parallel processing and a massive increase in the size of neural networks mean processors…

Creating Text Out of Thin Air

22 Δεκεμβρίου 2021 by paulkokos

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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Smartwatches are growing in popularity thanks to their compact size and wide-ranging abilities, useful for anything from texting to tracking fitness. Yet the convenience of having a smartwatch close on hand (literally) comes with…

A Quadrillion Mainframes on Your Lap

21 Δεκεμβρίου 2021 by paulkokos

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Whenever I hear someone rhapsodize about how much more computer power we have now compared with what was available in the 1960s during the Apollo era, I cringe. Those comparisons usually grossly underestimate the difference.By 1961, a few universities around the world had bought IBM 7090 mainframes. The 7090 was…

European Telcos Sound Alarm Over Flagging Open RAN Progress

21 Δεκεμβρίου 2021 by paulkokos

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European telecom companies recently sounded an alarm that they may be falling behind the rest of the world in their efforts to develop open-interface radio access network (RAN) technologies. The technologies, called Open RAN and which would provide new ways to mix and match network components by “opening up” the…

10 Gifts For Retrocomputing Fans

20 Δεκεμβρίου 2021 by paulkokos

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45 years ago, mass produced computers exploded onto the global stage as a harbinger of the digital future. And they've never really lost that futuristic shine, with every major announcement in hardware or software touting how the latest product will shape the world of tomorrow, albeit most likely in the…

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