Hi Tech & Innovation
Wi-Fi routers continuously broadcast radio frequencies that your phones, tablets and computers pick up and use to get you online. As the invisible frequencies travel, they bounce off or pass through everything around them—the ...
Dec 20, 2022
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Internet
In October 2016, a cyberattack temporarily took down Amazon, Reddit, Spotify and Slack for users along the U.S.'s East Coast. Mirai, a botnet of hacked security cameras and internet routers, aimed a flood of junk traffic ...
May 29, 2020
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Telecom
When WiFi was designed, it was intended for high-speed data communications. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) set the standards for communications—that's the 802.11 protocol, a familiar number ...
Oct 23, 2019
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Security
Linksys, a division within Belkin International and Foxconn Interconnect Technology, has announced that it is offering a new motion detection service with its mesh Wi-Fi routers. As part of its announcement, the company said ...
Security
This is one November headline that made a lot of readers nervous: A reporter gave reasons for why you should change your Internet password now. Kari Paul in MarketWatch was one of several sites reporting on a botnet army ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Smart speakers represent a product category that will not disappear any time soon. A combo smart speaker-Internet router is in the news. It is the combo part that has won the company its hoped-for chatter.
Computer Sciences
In today's data networks, traffic analysis—determining which links are getting congested and why—is usually done by computers at the network's edge, which try to infer the state of the network from the times at which ...
Aug 24, 2017
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Hi Tech & Innovation
(Tech Xplore)—We all like hearing about suggestions on how we could cut the time-outs and cords and forget about the docks to keep our phones running. What about having in hand a method where you can charge an iPhone wirelessly ...
Telecom
The transmission control protocol, or TCP, which manages traffic on the Internet, was first proposed in 1974. Some version of TCP still regulates data transfer in most major data centers, the huge warehouses of servers maintained ...
Mar 22, 2017
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Internet
Your next router will know where you're sitting. A team of researchers from two Madrid universities—Polytechnic (UPM) and Carlos III (UC3M)—has developed a prototype router with high positioning accuracy that allows them ...
Feb 28, 2024
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