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February 23, 2021

When Our Connected Devices Lack Their Connections

by john boyd in Engineering, Engineering News

Photo: Dan Page QR (Quick Response) codes have undergone something of a renaissance during the pandemic: Where I live in Australia, we use them to check in at a restaurant or cinema or classroom. They anchor the digital record of our comings and goings to better assist contact tracers. It’s annoying to have to check […]

February 1, 2021

Alphabet's Loon Failed to Bring Internet to the World. What Went Wrong?

by eliza strickland in Engineering, Engineering News

Loon’s soaring promise to bring Internet access to the world via high-altitude balloons deflated last week, when the company announced that it will be shutting down. With the announcement, Loon became the latest in a list of tech companies that have been unable to realize the lofty goal of universal Internet access. The company, a subsidiary of Alphabet (which also includes […]

January 25, 2021

Smart Surface Sorts Signals—The “Metaprism” Evaluated

by jeremy hsu in Engineering, Engineering News

The search for better ways to optimize and direct wireless communication is never-ending. These days the uses of metamaterials—marvels of material science engineered to have properties not found in naturally-occurring stuff—also seem to be similarly boundless. Why not use the latter to attempt the former? This was the basic idea behind a recent theoretical study, published earlier this month […]

December 14, 2020

Ensure 5G Systems Integrity by using Multiphysics Analysis of Chips, Packages, and Systems

by Engineering Recruiting in Engineering, Engineering News

The evolution of 5G systems is rooted in the consistently increasing need for more data. Whether the application is future medical systems, autonomous vehicles, smart cities, AR/VR, IoT, or standard mobile communications systems, all require an ever-increasing amount of data. For 5G systems to reliably work, the physical data pathways must be well understood and […]

December 8, 2020

5G Cellular Spectrum Auction—Can’t Tell the Players Without a Scorecard

by steven cherry in Engineering, Engineering News

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