Partner content Laser attack can blind self-driving cars 7th November 2022 Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are vulnerable to a laser attack that could potentially “blind” them, putting pedestrians at risk. That’s the alarming conclusion arrived at by a team of researchers from the United States and Japan. Researchers from the University of Florida, the University of Michigan and the University of Electro-Communications in Chofu, Japan conducted a series of […]
News Newscan: Dish and DirecTV have a window to finally merge after mid-term elections, Ergen says 4th November 2022 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Dish and DirecTV have a window to finally merge after mid-term elections, Ergen says Renee Gordon appointed to replace Karima Holmes on FirstNet Authority board The mystery of Biden’s deadlocked FCC FCC will launch new Space Bureau RapidDeploy mapping tech backs South Carolina 988 hotline Copper thief cuts […]
Partner content Motorola Solutions “likely” to exit LTE-based ESN in UK early, company says 4th November 2022 Motorola Solutions expects to “exit” its role as a key vendor for the Emergency Services Network (ESN)—the much-delayed public-safety LTE system in the United Kingdom (UK)—in the near future while continuing to oppose a UK watchdog’s findings that its Airwave TETRA service is anticompetitive, company officials said. Motorola Solutions CEO Greg Brown said the company’s […]
Partner content In the race to space, Bullitt eschews proprietary approaches 3rd November 2022 Bullitt, a UK-based maker of hardened Android smartphones, said it will leverage 3GPP-based 5G technology standards in its efforts to connect its forthcoming smartphones directly to satellites. That, according to Bullitt’s co-founder Richard Wharton, makes the company different from Apple, which recently announced that its new iPhone 14 can connect directly to satellites. “It’s a very different […]
Partner content Eliminating the grey areas of CAV insurance 3rd November 2022 The UK government is taking some positive steps forward with regard to addressing some of the great areas of connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) liability and insurance. That’s the view of the global law firm Clyde and Co. These include government support for a clear bright line test between human driver control and true self-driving, […]
Partner content IoT World Austin 2022: Chunghwa Telecom on the future of smart cities 3rd November 2022 What is a smart city? While it’s a term many of us have heard countless times, in reality few people actually know what it entails, and what a city needs to have to be classified as “smart.” So what will the cities of our future look like? IoT tech guru Jeff Mo from Chunghwa Telecom […]
Partner content Where are all of the container breaches? 3rd November 2022 How will threat actors attack and utilize containers? This is a question I constantly think about. I’ve been working in this area for more than two decades now, and I feel like I should have an answer. But I don’t. Instead, I have a lot of different ideas, none of which I can really pinpoint […]
News Xcel Energy agrees to $80 million contract with Anterix 2nd November 2022 Xcel Energy—an electric and natural-gas utility that operates in eight states—has agreed to pay $80 million for the right to operate a private broadband network supporting smart-grid applications for at least 20 years on 900 MHz broadband spectrum licensed to Anterix, the companies announced this week. Anterix CEO Rob Schwartz said that the deal gives […]
Partner content Layoffs mount as cybersecurity vendors hunker down 2nd November 2022 Cybersecurity firms Snyk and Cybereason separately announced significant layoffs during the last week of October, cutting their workforces by 198 and 200 workers and representing 14% and 17% of their workforces, respectively. The two companies are the latest cybersecurity vendors to join a growing list of more than three dozen firms to pare their workforces in […]
Partner content New defense system simultaneously controls air, ground vehicles 31st October 2022 Red Cat subsidiary, Teal Drones, has expanded the capabilities of its multi-vehicle platform, with a new partnership that allows Teal to simultaneously control its air and ground-based vehicles. The partnership with Tomahawk Robotics builds on Teal’s existing 4-Ship platform, which allows a user to operate up to four of Teal’s Golden Eagle drones. The latest […]
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 22nd April 2024
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