Anyone who lives with pets (or people with long hair) knows how hair seems to migrate everywhere—even in places you thought you’d vacuumed already. The BISSELL PowerClean FurFinder stick vacuum is clearly built to fight that battle daily. It promises pet-and-hair-focused features: a tangle-free brush roll so you aren’t constantly snipping hair off the roller,…
Over five years ago, we introduced the concept of Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) in our NTN tutorial and wrote IEEE ComSoc article, “The Role of Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) in Future 5G Networks.” Since then, the landscape has seen remarkable transformations with advancements in standards, innovations in satellite connectivity, and progress in real-world applications. The 2024 Global…
Verizon is acquiring Starry, the ISP that delivers home internet using antennas and millimeter wave technology. The acquisition “advances” Verizon’s ability to offer high-speed internet in apartments, condominiums, and other multi-dwelling units, the company said on Wednesday. Starry made its debut in Boston in 2016, offering gigabit speeds via its unconventional approach to internet connectivity….
Talking about architecture, memes wouldn’t be the first thing that crosses your mind, right? Architecture sure is a serious business—until it isn’t. Student or professional, the life of an architect is full of workload with late-night revisions, crashing software, annoying clients, and a coffee-fueled body, but as the saying goes, it’s all part of the…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times: A lot of critical financial and government infrastructure runs on Cobol. The more-than-60-year-old mainframe coding language is embedded into payments and transaction rails, even though there are very few Cobol-literate coders available to maintain them. The big argument in favor of sticking with Cobol systems…
Meta’s chief AI officer, Alexandr Wang, wrote in a memo to staff on Wednesday that the company will cut about 600 jobs from its superintelligence lab, according to a report from Axios. Meta declined to comment, but told TechCrunch that Axios’ reporting is accurate. As Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and other companies race to build…
Amazon announced on Wednesday that it’s developing AI-powered smart glasses for its delivery drivers. The idea behind the glasses is to give delivery drivers a hand-free experience that reduces the need to keep looking between their phone, the package they’re delivering, and their surroundings. The e-commerce giant says the glasses will allow delivery drivers to…
Also, the micromobility startup spun out of Rivian, has landed a commercial deal with Amazon to supply the e-commerce company with thousands of its new pedal-assist cargo quad vehicles that are big enough to carry more than 400 pounds of packages and small enough to use a bike lane. Under the multi-year collaboration, the two…
Sharing is caring! A successful e-commerce business is the dream of almost every individual. The reason is obvious: a passive income stream. But to be honest, it doesn’t work like that! There is a lot to do for sellers, from product sourcing to shipping. Studies claim an almost 80% failure rate of e-commerce startups, which…
The new Eero Signal could have saved me a lot of headaches when I was dealing with regular internet outages at my home last year. See, Signal automatically detects when your internet goes down and switches your whole Wi-Fi network over to a cellular connection to minimize disruption. Sure, when I’d suddenly see a “Slack…