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Magnetic gear reconfigures the Yagi-Uda antenna for future 6G developments

As researchers around the world race toward the realization of 6G wireless communication systems, the need for antennas that can dynamically adapt to ever-changing signal environments has never been greater. A key requirement ...

Telecom

THz band testbed successfully transmits under 1,000 km/h high-mobility emulation

The fifth-generation mobile communication system, also known as 5G, is expected to evolve as a critical infrastructure supporting individual users, industrial applications, and social systems. This requires access to broader ...

Telecom

Quantum-inspired wireless technology could tackle 6G's biggest challenges

Researchers at Monash University and the University of Melbourne have developed a quantum-inspired approach to optical wireless communication that promises to make 6G networks faster, more reliable and energy-efficient. As ...

Engineering

Elastic metasurface can capture multiple frequencies at once

It has long been considered common sense that a single device performs only one function. Just as tuning a radio to a different frequency changes the channel, systems that manipulate waves have traditionally been designed ...

Electronics & Semiconductors

Engineers invent wireless transceiver that rivals fiber-optic speed

A new transceiver invented by electrical engineers at the University of California, Irvine boosts radio frequencies into 140-gigahertz territory, unlocking data speeds that rival those of physical fiber-optic cables and laying ...

Business

EU won't ask Big Tech to pay for telecoms overhaul

The EU will not force the world's biggest tech companies to pay for the overhaul of Europe's telecoms infrastructure despite pleas from the industry, Brussels announced on Wednesday.

Electronics & Semiconductors

A durable, polymer-based, flexible RF switch for 6G communication

A research team affiliated with UNIST has introduced a novel, high-performance, and thermally stable polymer-based non-volatile analog switch. This next-generation device is as thin and flexible as vinyl, yet capable of withstanding ...

Business

Why 5G alone may not be enough for tomorrow's factories

As manufacturers race toward smarter, faster and more automated production, the networks holding those systems together are coming under growing strain. Robots, sensors and autonomous machines all demand split-second responses ...

Engineering

Using smartphones to improve disaster search and rescue

When a natural disaster strikes, time is of the essence if people are trapped under rubble. Conventional search-and-rescue methods use radar-based detection or employ acoustics that rely on sounds made by victims.

Internet

The modern world is fast becoming a wireless, infrared world

Optics-based technologies such as optical fibers have strongly influenced the age of wired communication. Now they look set to revolutionize wireless communications as well and solve key issues with traditional radio-based ...

Business

AT&T launches HBO Max as it makes a big bet on streaming

AT&T's long-anticipated streaming service, HBO Max, officially launches Wednesday, thrusting the longtime wireless and pay TV provider into a crowded streaming market, perhaps forever changed by the coronavirus pandemic.

Telecom

Unique measurement system for 5G-MIMO and space applications

With the delivery of Keysight Technologies' custom-designed wideband microwave downconverters, all key components for the novel 5G-MIMO system are now in place at Ferdinand-Braun-Institut. The system was funded within Research ...

Telecom

Artificial intelligence for optimized mobile communication

While many European states are currently setting up the 5th generation of mobile communication, scientists are already working on its optimization. Although 5G is far superior to its predecessors, even the latest mobile communication ...

Internet

Internet connectivity during the novel coronavirus pandemic

The novel coronavirus pandemic is requiring many people to work or study from home, which means that internet connectivity has become a paramount issue in the daily lives of millions of people around the world. John H. Chestnut ...

Telecom

AT&T to drop misleading '5G' marketing for non-5G networks

AT&T says it will stop advertising its wireless network as "5G Evolution" after a division of the Better Business Bureau determined that its language was misleading. The network AT&T branded this way is not, in fact, 5G—a ...