Lucas Laursen
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Apple Kicks Off the Cell-Calls-from-Space Race
Apple will offer emergency satellite messaging on two of its latest iPhone models, the company announced on Wednesday. T-Mobile USA and SpaceX also intend to offer their own messaging and limited data service via the second generation of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite constellation. → Read More
Space 5G is Ready for Its Launchpad Countdown
5G will soon go extraterrestrial. Taking a page from the famous catchphrase from hit 1980s movie about a space alien befriended by some earthling kids, satellite-based cellular networks will allow you to phone home from just about anywhere. → Read More
RISC-V Guns for Raspberry Pi, Legacy Chips
Two hardware makers are planning to offer chips later this year featuring the RISC-V free and open architecture standard, joining the $180 Linux-capable StarFive VisionFive RISC-V board that went on sale in January. In late June, Pine64 said it was designing a single-board computer for the market. → Read More
Europe Expands Virtual Borders To Thwart Migrants
It was after midnight in the Maltese search-and-rescue zone of the Mediterranean when a rubber boat originating from Libya carrying dozens of migrants encountered a hulking cargo ship from Madeira and a European military aircraft. → Read More
Rural Cooperatives Deliver High-Speed Internet for Less
Tired of waiting, some rural residents are funding their own Wi-Fi networks to bring broadband to their homes → Read More
Boingo and Mettis Aerospace Test Wi-Fi 6 for Airports and Factories
A single Wi-Fi 6 access point can deliver high-speed, low-latency service to hundreds of users at once → Read More
Why some of Spain’s Civil War survivors are still waiting to recover lost relatives
Francisco De Llera and Pedro Gallardo had a lot in common. They were both community leaders in their small, rural Spanish towns who dabbled in politics before the regime of Francisco Franco executed them after the Spanish Civil War. → Read More
MWC Barcelona 2019: Europe Is Trying to Develop Standards for Hyperloops Before Everyone Builds Incompatible Tunnels
Tight rules might slow industry’s start but could raise its top speed → Read More
MWC Barcelona 2019: Mobile Security Should Rely on the Device, Not the Human, Rivetz CEO Says
For security purposes, it’s best to contain multitudes → Read More
MWC Barcelona 2019: Forget Passwords—Audio Watermarks Could Be Easier to Use and More Secure
Photo: Cyberus Labs In the golden years before the dot-com crash of 2000, electrical engineer and serial entrepreneur Jack Wolosewicz kept asking people with so-called golden ears whether they could hear his latest creation: audio watermarks. The entertainment industry was all ears to his pitch—ensuring that DVD players or television broadcasters could play only licensed copies of digital files.… → Read More
LoRa’s Bid to Rule the Internet of Things
The wireless standard is already behind more than 100 low-power, wide-area networks around the world → Read More
LoRa’s Bid to Rule the Internet of Things
The wireless standard is already behind more than 100 low-power, wide-area networks around the world → Read More
How Does My Garden Grow? With Drones, Sensors, and AI All in a Row
Crop scientists hope to replace traditional, painstaking monitoring methods with automation → Read More
This Robot Transforms Itself to Navigate an Obstacle Course
A central perception system allows a robot to change its own configurations for each new challenge → Read More
Saudi Arabia Pushes to Use Solar Power for Desalination Plants
With photovoltaic costs dropping, oil states turn to solar power to desalinate their water → Read More
Aadhaar, India’s Biometric ID System, Gets Its Day in Court
With a billion people registered, India’s Supreme Court weighs in on how these 12-digit IDs can be used → Read More
Can Former Inmates Become Effective Criminologists?
Over the past few decades, some ex-convicts have turned to academia, aiming to put their experience "inside" to good use. → Read More
The Tech That Won the First Formula Student Driverless Race
On-the-fly mapping got the driverless car through a rainy day → Read More
Students Race Driverless Cars in Germany in Formula Student Competition
First batch of student-built driverless cars choose safety over speed → Read More
Carmakers Take to the (Self-Driving) Test Track
Engineers use track days to test self-driving cars and scout talent → Read More