PCs are making a comeback, if the news out of Computex 2017 is any indication, and Microsoft wants to make sure they’re all constantly connected. To support that vision, Intel is making its current and future modems compatible with e-SIMs, so future…
Looks like Microsoft isn’t done with its world tour. After a series of events in New York, Seattle and Shanghai, the company has yet another big announcement to make in Taiwan here at Computex 2017. And in keeping with the theme of bringing Windows e…
Virtual reality is inescapable here at Computex — you’re either stumbling into another Vive demo area or bumping into the occasional VR backpack. What’s often missing is a sense of true immersion, though, and a startup called Machina is trying to fi…
Rambling late night tweets from the President of the United States have been a part of our reality for several months now, but the latest one has gone to a new level. At 12:06AM ET the @RealDonaldTrump account posted a message saying that “Despite th…
The Guardian’s Ben Jacobs, whose glasses were broken when Montana Republican Greg Gianforte attacked him, will donate the mangled spectacles to the Newseum in Washington, D.C.
Last Wednesday, Jacobs was covering Montana’s special election for a U.S. House seat when he asked Gianforte a question about health care. Jacobs said the candidate, who went on to win the election the following day, body-slammed him and broke his glasses. A Fox News team that witnessed the attack said Gianforte grabbed the reporter by the neck with both hands and slammed him down on the ground. The candidate then began punching the reporter, the Fox News team said.
In an article posted to The Guardian on Tuesday, the newspaper’s staff wrote that Jacobs agreed to donate his glasses after the journalism museum requested to display them in its collection.
The reporter has new glasses. Gianforte was charged with misdemeanor assault and will face a maximum punishment of six months in jail and a $500 fine.
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While on the presidential campaign trail late in 2015, Donald Trump boasted that he had “the best words.” In a tweet fired off early Wednesday morning, he may have revealed one of them to the world: Covfefe.
While “covfefe” was likely a typo, the post remained online for at least an hour with no followup or correction, gathering more than 100,000 likes, replies and retweets combined. That caused this new entry into the lexicon to instantly trend:
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Recently I have heard of many industry research projects which revealed that satisfactory WiFi connectivity remains of the of most common problems for the average user. It might be shocking at first, but problems such as range, line of sight and interference are very easy to find in the real world. That’s why Qualcomm has led the WiFi industry towards Mesh Networking which brings a lot of technologies from the phone infrastructure world into the home. At Computex 2017, the company has revealed its Mesh Networking reference hardware design.
This is the materialization of Qualcomm’s SON (Self-Organized Network) specifications and hardware platform into a developer product that should accelerate future developments. This could also enlarge Qualcomm’s customer base to smaller companies that would base their future products on this design, rather than building something proprietary.
Qualcomm is already powering most commercially available WiFi Mesh products, but each hardware partner (OEM) can choose to implement only parts of the existing specs, called Mesh Networking 1.0. This Qualcomm reference design will lead the way in implementing more features and serve as a baseline for developers and partners. Among the features that are supported, you can find:
Qualcomm isn’t the only player, and competitors like MediaTek also have “whole home WiFi” solutions that are also based on mesh networking. However, Qualcomm seems to have the upper hand at this time, and this new reference design should help it push things forward.
Good WiFi connectivity is key to a good computing experience, and efforts over building robust mesh networks should be welcome by everyone. Mesh networking solves a lot of the common coverage and performance problems encountered by WiFi users today, and it looks like things are going to accelerate in the coming years.
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Google and Apple (and BlackBerry) take heed. There’s a new big player in the automotive platform market and its uniting rather than dividing diverse car makers, companies, and pieces of software. More importantly, it is one that is not interested in selling user data to the highest bidders or advertisers. Hosted by the Linux Foundation, the Automotive Grade Linux or … Continue reading
When the “Father of Android” says he’s building a new smartphone, people sit up and pay attention, so it’s fair to say Andy Rubin’s Essential Phone has got us interested. Unveiled today, the handset may run Android – though also help debut a new OS that will feature on a smart home hub among other things – but what’s really … Continue reading
Not to be outdone by rival camera maker Olympus, Nikon is getting ready to launch a rugged point-and-shoot of its own. The new Coolpix W300 borrows a few features from the AW130 that was introduced in 2015, including the same 16-megapixel (1/2.3-inch…
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