Partner content Russia ramps up V2X-driven connected car mobility by 2030 19th February 2022 The transportation strategy 2030 issued by the Russian government last November is the second of the four pillars of the country’s decade-long plan in new mobility. Other three are the electric mobility strategy, signed in the last August, and two more, still in a draft stage, are the future self-driving strategy and the hydrogen strategy. Russia’s transport sector […]
News FirstNet buildout on Band 14 spectrum will be completed this year, AT&T says 18th February 2022 AT&T will complete the initial buildout of FirstNet during this calendar year—several months ahead of schedule—according to a regulatory filing submitted this week by AT&T, which is contracted by the FirstNet Authority to build, operate and upgrade the nationwide public-safety broadband network (NPSBN). Under its agreement with the FirstNet Authority signed in March 2017, AT&T […]
Partner content Russian actors targeting U.S. defense contractors in cyber espionage campaign, CISA warns 17th February 2022 State-sponsored threat actors from Russia have stolen unclassified but sensitive data on US weapons development and specific technologies used by the US military and government as part of a broader and ongoing cyber espionage campaign going back to at least January 2020. The campaign’s victims have included big and small private companies and contractors that […]
Partner content Musk eyes 30,000 LEO satellites–but how many are too many? 17th February 2022 It’s possible to have too much of a good thing. The trick is knowing how much is too much. Elon Musk’s SpaceX currently has permission from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to launch 12,000 satellites for its Starlink Internet broadband constellation. For context, as of last month 12,480 satellites have been launched in all of human history. […]
Partner content State and local governments will be prime cyber targets in 2022: How to stay protected 17th February 2022 Cybersecurity in 2021 was defined by a significant increase in high-profile attacks that affected all levels of government, from federal to state and local. As recently as December 2021, cyberattacks on state and local government’s key networks continue to occur. The recent string of malicious and dangerous attacks demonstrates an active threat to the critical […]
News Newscan: Ukraine hit by cyberattack as U.S. questions Russian troop pullback 16th February 2022 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations Ukraine hit by cyberattack as U.S. questions Russian troop pullback Body-worn sensors could keep responders out of heat danger Software supply-chain attacks hit three out of five companies in 2021 NASA raises concerns about SpaceX satellite deployment plan Vodafone works with AST SpaceMobile to close digital divide Senators […]
Partner content Microsoft’s AI model identifies when medical treatments harm more than help 15th February 2022 Microsoft researchers have built an AI model that can identify when medical treatments meant to help patients actually ended up harming them. The model, Dead-end Discovery, uses the reinforcement learning ML framework – where an agent learns from trial and error – because it is well-suited to health care. Health care is characterized by sequential decision-making: […]
Partner content BlackBerry seeks to restore its past glory with services push 14th February 2022 BlackBerry was once king of the smartphone world, reaching more than 40% market share in the US in 2010. But those days are long past. At the beginning of this year, the Canadian company finally pulled the plug on its device business, ending support for its smartphone and tablet operating systems. CEO John Chen argued […]
Partner content FirstNet’s CEO on 5G, priorities in 2022 and what’s next 12th February 2022 Edward Parkinson this year is celebrating a full decade of work on what is today FirstNet. Roughly ten years ago he was a staffer for former Rep. Peter King of New York, working on the legislation that would eventually create FirstNet. He then joined the nascent agency in 2013 as its chief of government affairs […]
News Newscan: FBI: Ransomware attackers have code to halt critical infrastructure 11th February 2022 Web Roundup Items from other news organizations FBI: Ransomware attackers have code to halt critical infrastructure Fiber cut in space? Starlink loses a batch of satellites to geomagnetic storm AI could match ‘fingerprints’ of texts to their authors under new intelligence program T-Mobile isn’t only one rankled about C-band giving 5G a bad name Gigi […]
Latest 3GPP standards-development work includes new classes of HPUE, progress on mission-critical services 1 22nd April 2024
Is LMR the best solution for first responders? Should 4.9 GHz license go to the FirstNet Authority? 2 24th March 2024
