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Intel warns of chip shortages but trumpets open RAN

The CEO of Intel said chipset shortages could affect the global electronics industry through 2023. “While I expect the shortages to bottom out in the second half, it will take another one to two years before the industry is able to completely catch up with demand,” Intel’s Pat Gelsinger said Thursday during the company’s quarterly […]

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When it comes to autonomous vehicles, it’s time for municipalities to get into the driver’s seat

As the host of the “Connected and Autonomous Vehicles 101 National Roadshow,” I have conducted seminars for planners, city administrators and municipal employees in many metro areas around the country. The one thing that everyone who attends these seminars wants to know is: while we wait for self-driving cars, what should municipalities, counties or MPOs […]

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How Vegas built an LTE network in 45 days, and what it might do next

In December, at the height of the pandemic, the city of Las Vegas lit up a fixed wireless network covering 65 square miles and offering download speeds up to 35 Mbit/s. The city’s initial goal was to connect homebound students to their teachers in cases where they might not have a home Internet connection. Now, […]

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SBC: John Foley outlines goals of new in-building certification program with NICET

John Foley, managing director for the Safer Buildings Coalition (SBC), explains how SBC worked with the National Institute for Certification in Engineering Technologies (NICET) to establish the In-Building Public Safety Communications certification program. Announced today, the new initiative is designed to provide an objective assessment of personnel installing and maintaining in-building systems to support […]

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Newscan: Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists worldwide

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists worldwide The novel material that’s shrinking phone chargers, powering electric cars and making 5G possible After confronting Russia, Biden accuses China of running cyber criminal ops against U.S. Candiru: Another cyberweapons arms manufacturer State data-privacy bills growing more […]

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With V2X, you don’t have to put on the red light

In the not-too-distant future, will traffic lights cease to exist? That is the premise of an intriguing research project launched in England by Ford in 2016, in which the US auto giant was testing its Intersection Priority Management (IPM) vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) system. With this technology, which harnesses V2V, vehicles will communicate with each other when […]

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Recent attacks lead to renewed calls for banning ransom payments

Major ransomware attacks that have disrupted businesses and caused supply chain ripples in the US economy have led to renewed calls for making it illegal to pay a ransom to cybercriminals. In June, a month after oil and gas transport network Colonial Pipeline and meat producer JBS USA paid massive ransoms of $4.4 million and […]

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AT&T’s edge-computing strategy takes shape with Google, Microsoft

AT&T recently said it plans to build an edge computing network across more than 15 major US cities with Google Cloud over the next few years. The announcement helps to clarify AT&T’s emerging story around edge computing, and the operator’s desire to work with a variety of cloud computing vendors on the effort. More broadly, […]

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Industrial artificial-intelligence (AI) challenges still prevalent

It may be surprising, but the majority of manufacturing companies haven’t yet adopted artificial intelligence to make their operations more efficient. Possibly equally surprising: Many of the manufacturers that have enlisted industrial artificial intelligence have yet to see the payback expected. About half of projects at the proof-of-concept (POC) phase aren’t delivering, but even in later-stage […]

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10 mistakes companies make in their ransomware responses

From the headline-making incident in May that impacted Colonial Pipeline to this month’s hit on Kaseya, ransomware attacks have been nothing short of a plague on businesses in recent months. While they aren’t new, they are certainly capturing the public’s attention and raising eyebrows among lawmakers. To pay or not to pay the ransom is […]

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Intel warns of chip shortages but trumpets open RAN

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When it comes to autonomous vehicles, it’s time for municipalities to get into the driver’s seat

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How Vegas built an LTE network in 45 days, and what it might do next

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SBC: John Foley outlines goals of new in-building certification program with NICET

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Newscan: Private Israeli spyware used to hack cellphones of journalists, activists worldwide

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With V2X, you don’t have to put on the red light

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Recent attacks lead to renewed calls for banning ransom payments

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AT&T’s edge-computing strategy takes shape with Google, Microsoft

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Industrial artificial-intelligence (AI) challenges still prevalent

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10 mistakes companies make in their ransomware responses

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Ransomware? Let’s call it what it really is: extortionware

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