Wearable technology has become an essential component of our daily life, especially for chronic diseases such as diabetes and hypertension. Driven by advances in communications and computing and improved sensor accuracy, smartwatches have become real diagnostic tools capable of measuring vital signs while providing insights into our medical conditions. Efficiently measuring blood pressure with clinically […]
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Car production has been moving from petrol-based cars to electric vehicles with the main aim of fighting climate change by reducing CO2 emissions. The autopilot feature by Tesla in 2014 has been a notable improvement in advanced driver assistance systems taking the autonomy in cars to level 2 on the self-driving car scale out of […]
The telecom evolution has been happening at a considerably fast pace. Civilizations flourished around the latest advances in technologies that allowed communications between distant parties. From smoke signals to pigeons and hawks, wireless communications went through several stages of evolution until reaching the current global connectivity we enjoy. The impact of telecommunications on society has […]
The advances in computing and communications wouldn’t have been possible without the transistor. This small semiconductor device invented at Bell Labs in 1947, has allowed the proliferation of integrated circuits, the core element in any hardware component. The latest semiconductor shortage is a clear reflection of the important place it has in current technologies. Over […]
Is holographic communication possible? It is certainly coming closer to reality. What has been pictured in movies will soon be enabled by advances in technology, in particular computing, processing and communication. Ericsson, of the main companies working on this technology defines holographic communication as “real-time capturing, encoding, transporting and rendering of 3D representations, anchored in […]
The recent coronavirus pandemic has been a big challenge for different sectors worldwide. The health industry has been put to the limelight due the large number of casualties and the inability of healthcare systems to ramp up their resources to face the rapidly escalating situation. In the background, the pandemic tested the readiness of various […]
The world has been living under the charm of 5G for about three years now. Operators have been deploying and upgrading their networks, experimenting with different configurations, and bands to extract the maximum performance of the network. Concurrently, businesses have been trying the exploit the tiniest feature of the standard to generate new revenue streams. […]
As Apple Inc rolls out its usual stream of upgrades to operating systems for its iPhones, iPads and Macs at its annual software developer conference Monday, analysts and developers will be scouring between the lines for any hints about how a future mixed-reality headset might work. That headset is likely to use cameras to pass […]
The United Nations has placed the availability of clean and affordable energy among its priorities through sustainable development goal (SDG) 7. Nuclear energy is seen as one of the best alternatives to meeting this SDG. A report by the international atomic energy agency (IAEA) highlights the main attractive features of nuclear energy including low carbon […]
The last four decades witnessed an incredibly fast development pace in the telecom sector. The GSM standard which was established in the late 80s marked the beginning of a new era, that of digital mobile communications. The introduction of the second generation of mobile communications was followed with an aggressive evolution path that saw the […]