On June 3rd, 2021 with 86 comments
Samsung is killing the first-generation SmartThings Hub at the end of the month, kicking off phase two of its plan to shut down the SmartThings ecosystem and...
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On May 12th, 2021 with 146 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Jalopnik: [R]esearchers at Cornell University, led by Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering...
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On August 8th, 2020 with 35 comments
The international R&D hub Imec has made a millimetre-wave motion detection radar integrated in a standard 28nm CMOS chip, reports Electronics Weekly,...
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On June 2nd, 2020 with 66 comments
It's no secret that 5G networks drain battery. "To rectify that grim side effect, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Lille...
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On January 26th, 2020 with 39 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader gabebear writes: The FCC hasn't officially cleared 6 GHz for WiFi, but chipsets that support 6 GHz are starting to be released. 6 GHz...
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On May 31st, 2019 with 123 comments
samleecole writes: Apple's AirPods are a tragedy. Ecologically, socially, economically -- they're a capitalist disaster. The opposite of AirPods, then, is this...
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On May 25th, 2019 with 276 comments
Both the SD Association and Wi-Fi Alliance have cut ties with Huawei following President Trump's executive order barring companies from doing business with the...
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On March 24th, 2019 with 250 comments
Some of the same podcasters who first extolled AirPods are now complaining about them, reports the Atlantic:
The battery can no longer hold a charge, they say,...
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On January 31st, 2019 with 116 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have created super-thin, bendy materials that...
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On January 13th, 2019 with 107 comments
Apple's long-delayed AirPower wireless charging mat might finally be in production. According to a tweet from ChargerLAB, a "credible source" says that Apple...
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On January 10th, 2019 with 66 comments
Global Energy Transmission (GET) co-founder William Kallamn says his wireless tech company has found a way to create a "power cloud" that can charge a drone...
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On September 18th, 2018 with 120 comments
Two separate reports are saying Apple's yet-to-be-released AirPower charger is facing overheating issues. The product, designed to simultaneously charge an...
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On June 21st, 2018 with 249 comments
The first iPhone to shed its headphone jack was the iPhone 7, which launched in late 2016. Now it seems like the Lightning port may be the next to go. CNET...
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On May 16th, 2018 with 64 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Atlas: You might remember RoboBee, an insect-sized robot that flies by flapping its wings. Unfortunately, though,...
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On April 26th, 2018 with 189 comments
9to5Mac reports that Apple is officially exiting the wireless router business and selling off its remaining inventory of AirPort products. This includes the...
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On March 25th, 2018 with 85 comments
fstack writes: Pi Day was marked this year by the launch of the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ as the next evolution to this $35 ARM single-board computer. Phoronix...
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On March 5th, 2018 with 173 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Some eight years on and Google Fiber's ambitions are just a pale echo of the disruptive potential...
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On January 8th, 2018 with 37 comments
Powermat, the only contender to the dominant format Qi, has joined the Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) and now backs its rival. "Qi has become the dominant...
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On December 27th, 2017 with 138 comments
The FCC has approved the first wireless charger that works from up to three feet away. Engadget reports: San Jose-based startup, Energous, announced on...
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On December 22nd, 2017 with 18 comments
In an effort to push further into smart home and connected security products, Amazon has acquired Blink -- a wireless security camera company that launched...
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On December 13th, 2017 with 119 comments
AT&T has started trials to deliver high-speed internet over power lines. The company announced the news on Wednesday and said that trials have started in...
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On July 31st, 2017 with 28 comments
The folks over at XDA Developers are reporting that Android may be getting a new feature that could help users identify how much battery life is remaining in...
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On July 2nd, 2017 with 85 comments
This week the Free Software Foundation awarded its coveted 'Respects Your Freedom' certification to 15 products -- more than doubling the number of certified...
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On June 12th, 2017 with 62 comments
Logitech has just revealed a new Powerplay technology that builds wireless charging directly into its mouse pad, allowing compatible wireless mice to charge...
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On May 22nd, 2017 with 31 comments
The Wireless Power Consortium has released a leaked image of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S8 Active. While it's only one photo, the image shows a smartphone...
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On February 22nd, 2017 with 110 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: The scientific and tech arm of the entertainment giant Disney has built a prototype room with "ubiquitous...
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On February 13th, 2017 with 53 comments
Your home Wi-Fi performance could soon get much better thanks to new Wi-Fi chips that Qualcomm announced today, the IPQ8074 system-on-chip (SoC) for...
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On January 11th, 2017 with 252 comments
Apple's decision to remove the headphone jack from new iPhones last year prompted lots of consumers to switch to wireless headphones, according to a new report...
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On January 9th, 2017 with 376 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: During the company's CES press conference today, LG marketing VP David VanderWaal says that "starting this year" all of...
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On November 12th, 2016 with 29 comments
One of the biggest cons with premium virtual-reality headsets is the fact that they need to be tethered to a powerful gaming PC or game console via annoying...
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It was pity stayed his hand. "Pity I don't have any more bullets," thought Frito. -- _Bored_of_the_Rings_, a Harvard Lampoon parody of Tolkein
