Nanoscale Microwave Transmitters Will Transform Your Phone [Science]

To pump out all the radio-frequency signals that let you make phone calls and consume the internet wirelessly, your phone uses small chunks of silicon to create microwaves. Science had pushed the little things as far as they could—but now a nanoscale version promises to make your phone smaller, cheaper and better-performing. More »

Future-Predicting Phones Will Speed Up App Launches [Phones]

Even with a fancy A5 processor or who-knows-how-many-core Snapdragon chip, smart phones sometimes can’t quite keep up and apps take far longer to load than we’d really like. A team of engineers, however, is building software that predicts the future in order to speed things up. More »