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Weather still a challenge to autonomous vehicles

In the drive towards full autonomy, vehicle makers and solutions providers must tackle a nearly impossible variety of factors. Some of these, often necessarily, are more attention-grabbing than others but there are numerous ones just as critical that don’t typically appear in auto technology headlines. One is the weather, which is somewhat odd because information […]

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Smart-city technology drives efficient disaster response and recovery

From heatwave-induced wildfires in the West to unrelenting hurricanes in the Southeast, natural disasters are increasing in frequency and severity due to climate change. As evidenced in 2020’s historic year of extreme cases, totaling 22 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, we can expect this trend to continue. Today, wildfire season is longer and more severe […]

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Renewables surpass coal as America’s second most prevalent energy source

With technological advancements over the last decade driving innovation in the green energy sector, renewables are now the second most prevalent energy source in the United States. According to the United States Energy Information Administration’s 2020 report, “Renewables surpassed both nuclear (790 billion kilowatt hours) and coal (774 billion kilowatt hours) for the first time on record. This outcome […]

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FragAttacks foil two decades of wireless security

The evolution of wireless security could at best be described as trial and error. The initial standard that debuted in the late 1990s — Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) — had significant security problems, and the first two version of Wireless Protected Access, WPA and WPA2, both have been found to be vulnerable to a variety […]

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Starlink speeds accelerate in Q2, with lower latencies than GEO satellite services, Ookla says

Starlink’s overall speeds continue to outpace those of fellow satellite broadband services Viasat and HughesNet, but its median download speeds in the US are starting to enter the neighborhood of fixed-line broadband networks, according to Ookla’s latest round of Speedtest data. Ookla’s data for Q2 2021 found that Starlink’s median download speeds in the US climbed […]

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Florida contract with L3Harris for SLERS P25, FirstNet interoperability totals $450 million

L3Harris Technologies this week announced that it will maintain and upgrade the Florida Statewide Law Enforcement Radio Systems (SLERS) to Project 25 (P25) Phase 2 under a 15-year contract worth $450 million—the largest public-safety LMR contract awarded in the United States in years, according to industry sources. There was no surprise associated with L3Harris being […]

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5 key lessons from ICS attacks through the ages

Imagine it’s 1903 and you’re standing in front of a large hotel on a remote peninsula cliffside in Poldhu (Cornwall, UK). Despite the large antennas next to it or the huge kite that sometimes flies antennas even higher, you might not realize you are looking at the site of historic wireless telegraph communications — or the victim of the […]

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5G Broadcast could offer new mode of digital media delivery

There’s a new mobile broadcast technology called 5G Broadcast that experts say makes it possible for broadcasters to more efficiently deliver video and other media content to mobile devices and TV screens. If this sounds familiar, that’s because it is. The wireless industry has gone down this path before with technologies such as MediaFLO, LTE […]

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Why supply-chain attacks are destined to escalate

BLACK HAT USA 2021 – Las Vegas – The epic software supply chain attacks over the past year, including the high-profile breaches of SolarWinds, Microsoft Exchange Server, Kaseya, and Codecov, were only the beginning. “Supply chain attacks are only just starting, and mostly with pretty small vendors that most people had not heard of beforehand,” […]

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Trying to apply ethics to driverless technology

Nearly a year ago the European Commission published a report on the ethics of data and artificial intelligence in connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs). Part of the discussion in the text is about data and artificial intelligence (AI) ethics to provide some insight into the data protection issues automakers are expected to overcome. According to […]

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Weather still a challenge to autonomous vehicles

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Smart-city technology drives efficient disaster response and recovery

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Renewables surpass coal as America’s second most prevalent energy source

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FragAttacks foil two decades of wireless security

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Starlink speeds accelerate in Q2, with lower latencies than GEO satellite services, Ookla says

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Florida contract with L3Harris for SLERS P25, FirstNet interoperability totals $450 million

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5 key lessons from ICS attacks through the ages

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5G Broadcast could offer new mode of digital media delivery

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Why supply-chain attacks are destined to escalate

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Trying to apply ethics to driverless technology

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