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A company has designed a tiny, inexpensive chip that can wirelessly transmit signals at up to 1.5 Gbits per second now and possibly 30 Gbps in the future.

A team of researchers has used computer analysis, machine translation, and other technologies to crack an encrypted 18th-century document that had previously resisted decryption.

Hackers and security researchers are increasing efforts to find problems with the control systems that run factories, nuclear-power plants, and other critical facilities.

A research team has developed a relatively inexpensive device for writing Braille that solves the problem of blind users having to find keys on a virtual keyboard that appears on a flat glass touchscreen.

German researchers have found serious security problems with two cloud systems and say these flaws probably exist in other cloud architectures.

Researchers have developed a system designed to prevent hackers from attacking implantable medical devices such as heart pacemakers..

University of Washington scientists have built a transistor that uses protons to send information, potentially enabling devices that could communicate with living things.

Japanese researchers have developed a pedestrian navigation system that uses haptics so that users can watch where they’re going and not have to look at maps or a device.

Rice University researchers have developed a full-duplex wireless technology that could double network throughput inexpensively without requiring new hardware.

A Swiss semiconductor vendor has developed a system for mobile devices that determines a user’s location when neither GPS nor Wi-Fi is available.

Engineers have developed flexible circuitry that can be mounted on a user’s skin to perform tasks such as health monitoring.

IBM and 3M have announced plans to jointly design adhesives that could enable the stacking of 100 chips, thereby enabling ultrafast processors.

MIT researchers are developing energy-efficient microchips that could operate within wearable or implantable devices that monitor medical patient for health problems.

A group representing companies and government agencies has approved the first smart grid standards.

A new type of antenna uses plasma to focus radio waves and enable ultrafast wireless networks.

MIT researchers have developed a system that promises to make it easier for systems to recover from security breaches.

A company has developed a recommendation engine that uses AI to anticipate what users want even before they have a chance to ask.

As more people use smartphones as mobile computers, manufacturers are increasingly placing powerful, energy-efficient dual-core chips in the devices.

European academic researchers have developed a constellation of sturdy, lightweight flying robots using wireless communications that could be employed in mapping, remote sensing, ground searches, and other similar operations.

A company has designed a lighting-fixture-based system that offers an access point to the Internet or any backbone network to which a user can connect.