Cellular
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Using techniques borrowed from astronomy, biologists have developed a new microscopy technique that delivers extraordinary 3D video of cells moving around inside living tissue. It's a fascinating window into just how busy and complex life is at the cellular level.
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There’s a ton of trackers to find items that are always vanishing around the house, but most aren’t much good long-range. Samsung is now jumping into the tracker game with the Connect Tag, which uses a cellular connection to get a GPS readout essentially anywhere there’s a cell phone tower.
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Drones could bring benefit to disaster-relief scenarios by serving as temporary communications networks in place of those destroyed by the event. Researchers have now taken a step forward in this area by demonstrating a drone-based cell network that offers coverage kilometers away.
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A team at Disney Research is looking at harnessing a technique called ultra-wideband (UWB) ambient backscatter, which would allow IoT devices to save power and ditch their radio transmitters by piggybacking their communications on the multitude of FM and cellular signals already in the air.
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ScienceThe Nobel Prizes are being announced this month, and we now know the winners of the prizes in three fields of science: physics, chemistry and medicine. Here's what you need to know about the advancements in each area that led to the award of some of the world's most prestigious prizes.
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The street lighting in the US city of Los Angeles is about to get smarter. LA is to become the first city in the world to deploy Philips' SmartPole street lights, which are equipped with fully integrated 4G LTE wireless telecommunications technology. A total of 100 SmartPoles will be rolled out.
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The algorithms used for zooming in and out on Google Maps and Google Street View have made it possible to visually traverse through layers of the body using real scans stitched together, with huge potential implications in medicine as it reduces the difficulty of comparative analysis
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Yaliny's Indiegogo campaign seeks to fund something oh-so-tempting to those frustrated by a roaming symbol on their cellphone: satellite-based phone calls and data coverage anywhere in the world, for the low price of US$150 for the hardware and $10 monthly thereafter.
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Unlike other mailbox sensors that rely on Bluetooth technology and therefore have a limited range over which to send an alert when a delivery arrives, the Postybell extends range to "any distance" by relying on GSM technology.
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The explosion in mobile data usage has put a strain on mobile networks, slowing them down when congested and requiring more radio spectrum space. Artemis Networks hopes to solve this problem with a new technology called pCell that promises full speed mobile data regardless of the number of users.
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Nickolay Lamm is a self-identified artist and researcher, who transforms New York, Chicago, Hollywood, and Washington D.C. by converting cellular network transmissions into visual overlays on city images.
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A new SIM punch from MicroSIMcutter trims oversize SIM cards for use in modern mobile phones.
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