What is 5G? An electrical engineer explains
5G stands for fifth-generation cellular network technology.
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Telecom
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Consumer & Gadgets
Advertising plays key role in satellite TV success, study shows
The pay television market in the United States was dominated by a handful of cable operators until the early 1990s with the entry of satellite TV, which has grown consistently ever since.
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Energy & Green Tech
Making light work of emerging micropollutants
Carbon-based organic micropollutants in water can be removed by treatment with high-intensity pulses of light in a procedure developed and demonstrated by researchers at KAUST.
Jan 10, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Fusion's role in fighting climate change
Excitement about fusion energy is growing. The international ITER project in France, which counts China, India, Europe, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and the United States as its partners, is starting to assemble the world's ...
Jan 10, 2022
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Consumer & Gadgets
The metaverse offers a future full of potential, for terrorists and extremists too
The metaverse is coming. Like all technological innovation, it brings new opportunities and new risks.
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Nanowire transistor with integrated memory to enable future supercomputers
For many years, a bottleneck in technological development has been how to get processors and memories to work faster together. Now, researchers at Lund University in Sweden have presented a new solution integrating a memory ...
Jan 10, 2022
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Engineering
Proposed updates to steel building standard could enhance earthquake resilience
Since the mid-1990s, a type of steel column that commonly features slender cross-sectional elements has become more prevalent in buildings along the West Coast of the United States and in other seismically active regions. ...
Jan 10, 2022
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Business
Take-Two to buy 'Farmville' creator Zynga for $12.7 bn
Video game publisher Take-Two announced Monday it reached a deal to acquire "Farmville" creator Zynga for $12.7 billion, in a major mobile gaming push by the maker of "Grand Theft Auto."
Jan 10, 2022
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Robotics
Algorithm helps robots avoid obstacles in their path
If you've ever ordered a product from Amazon, chances are that a robot selected your purchase from a shelf, read the barcode and delivered it to the counter for packaging. Hopefully, it didn't collide with a human worker ...
Jan 10, 2022
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