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Try IEEE’s New Virtual Testbed for 5G and 6G Tech
Telecom engineers and researchers face several challenges when it comes to testing their 5G and 6G prototypes. One is finding a testbed where they can run experiments with their new hardware and software.The experimentation platforms, which resemble real-world conditions,...
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Social media companies change their policies in the wake of bad press
Negative news stories about social media platforms appear to be highly effective at pressuring companies into changing their policies.
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A Self-Healing Pole Vault Pole Is One Great Leap for Sports Tech
The Swiss company CompPair focuses on composites with the goal of making products more repairable. Its hallmark composites rely on what CompPair calls HealTech technology to create a healable surface. The way it works is that when something gets...
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The Engineer Who Pins Down the Particles at the LHC
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Large Hadron Collider has transformed our understanding of physics since it began operating in 2008, enabling researchers to investigate the fundamental building blocks of the universe. Some 100 meters below the border between France and Switzerland, particles accelerate...
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Europe Is Pumping Billions Into New Military Tech
From €142 million to €1 billion ($1.1 billion) a year. The European Commission is pressing the accelerator on investment in weapons and defense technologies. From a total €590 million invested between 2017 and 2020, Brussels has moved to a...
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Oracle’s Java Pricing Brews Bitter Taste, Subscribers Spill Over To OpenJDK – Slashdot
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Lindsay Clark reports via The Register: Only 14 percent of Oracle Java subscribers plan to stay on Big Red's runtime environment, according to a study following the introduction of an employee-based subscription model. At the same time,...
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Meta issues a warning about increasing sextortion scams. Here’s how to stay safe.
Meta issues a warning about increasing sextortion scams. Here's how to stay safe. - CBS News...
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3 reasons tech stocks, once hot, are suddenly not
A selloff in technology stocks Wednesday drove the Nasdaq and S&P 500 indices to their worst performances since 2022. The slump in high-tech follows a year-long rally by the "Magnificent Seven," a group of seven industry giants that have...
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Eminem’s New Album Prompted Gen X to Declare a TikTok ‘War’ on Gen Z
In the past week, a somewhat one-sided argument has taken over TikTok. Gen X, it seems, is “declaring war” on Gen Z, going viral with shitposts about what they see as Gen Z’s overreaction to Eminem’s new album The...
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Why a Technical Master’s Degree Can Accelerate Your Engineering Career
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Companies large and small are seeking engineers with up-to-date, subject-specific knowledge in disciplines like computer engineering, automation, artificial intelligence, and circuit design. Mid-level engineers need to advance their skillsets to...
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Analysis | The Paris Olympics, in comics
The Summer Olympics are underway in Paris with athletes from over 200 delegations competing in 32 sports. We asked...