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Where e-SIMs meet cloud-based platforms

Connected and autonomous vehicles need a way to connect to a mobile network. Ericsson predicts that all the manufactured vehicles will be cellular-enabled by 2025, “leading to an enhanced driving experience made possible by innovative connected services, like assisted driving and better infotainment”. Being cellular-enabled will require the vehicles to have e-SIMS to connect them […]

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Green waste-management solution lets Miami DPW managers monitor dumpster levels from afar

By now, everyone has heard of smartphones, smart televisions and smart home appliances—but what about smart dumpsters? A sustainable waste metering pilot program launched in Miami will see city dumpsters equipped “with rugged smart cameras that take photos of the inside … to measure how much and what types of waste are present,” according to a statement […]

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Newscan: ShotSpotter sues Vice Media over gunshot-detection claims

Web Roundup Items from other news organizations ShotSpotter sues Vice Media over gunshot-detection claims CISA finalizes guidance for securing federal networks for remote users Baltimore schools monitoring student laptops for suicide risk Motorola makes billions from delays to new emergency-services radio network Boeing satellite plan advances to FCC vote 25% of all U.S. critical infrastructure […]

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Wi-Fiber: Adair Grover outlines uses of private wireless broadband for communities

Wi-Fiber CEO Adair Grover discusses the various use cases that municipalities and other entities can realize by implementing private wireless broadband within their jurisdictions. Not only can these private networks be deployed relatively quickly, but the ability to leverage LTE over CBRS spectrum means that the systems can support prioritization and quality-of-service functionalities that […]

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UCLA develops human-powered medical wearables

Soft sensors for medical wearable devices could soon generate electricity using the motions of the human body. A soft, flexible self-powered bioelectronic device that converts human body motions into electricity has been created by a team of bioengineers at the Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The magnetoelastic generator […]

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This is Smart Cockpit calling Ground Control: Inside Airbus’s conversational artificial intelligence (AI)

At the virtual track of the AI Summit, part of the jam-packed London Tech Week, an Airbus data scientist outlined conversational AI’s enabling role in the digital transformation. Airbus has managed to train conversational AI using domain classification techniques, data content and interaction models. Once trained, the software has underpinned efforts to create dashboarding & visualization […]

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Syniverse quietly admits it was hacked for five years

Softly, softly is often the best way to admit something’s gone epically wrong. And so Syniverse, which routes hundreds of billions of text messages a year for hundreds of major carriers, has just quietly admitted that for five years a hacker had access to its databases. The Florida-based company handles 740 billion text messages annually […]

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Lynk Global: Margot Deckard explains company’s LEO satellite-to-phone tech, rollout plans

Lynk Mobile COO Margot Deckard describes how the company’s LEO satellite constellation is able to communicate directly with unmodified smartphones to fill outdoor coverage gaps for both first responders and the people they serve. Deckard also outlines the Lynk’s service roadmap, beginning with text-only services that are scheduled to launch next year to full […]

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SME fleets still hesitant over software investment

More than a third of companies, mostly smaller organizations, are not using software solutions. This was among the findings of a Continental survey about the use of software for managing drivers, vehicles and logistics operations in the transport industry. Although logistics and transport companies that use software solutions are now more satisfied with them overall, […]

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Why access control has become an important front in the war against cybercrime

Earlier this year, Hiscox published its “Cyber Readiness Report 2021.” It was based on a survey of more than 6,000 companies based in the US, the UK, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, and Ireland. One of the most eye-catching findings was that spending per business on cybersecurity has more than doubled in the last […]

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Where e-SIMs meet cloud-based platforms

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Green waste-management solution lets Miami DPW managers monitor dumpster levels from afar

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Newscan: ShotSpotter sues Vice Media over gunshot-detection claims

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Wi-Fiber: Adair Grover outlines uses of private wireless broadband for communities

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UCLA develops human-powered medical wearables

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This is Smart Cockpit calling Ground Control: Inside Airbus’s conversational artificial intelligence (AI)

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Syniverse quietly admits it was hacked for five years

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Lynk Global: Margot Deckard explains company’s LEO satellite-to-phone tech, rollout plans

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SME fleets still hesitant over software investment

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Why access control has become an important front in the war against cybercrime

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