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Digital Chinese-language keyboards that are vulnerable to spying and eavesdropping have been used by 1 billion smartphone users, according to a new report. The widespread threats these leaky syst...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/chinese-pinyin-keyboard-software-exploits

At some point, our phone habits changed. It used to be that if the phone rang, you answered it. With the advent of caller ID, you’d only pick up if it was someone you recognized. And now, with...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/how-to-stop-robocalls

By making light beams curve in midair around obstacles, researchers hope to help make blazingly fast 6G data networks a reality, a new study finds. The next generation of wireless communications...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/6g-network-curved-terahertz-signals

This white paper delves into modern enterprise computing solutions and explores different approaches for securing enterprise laptops, desktops, mobile devices, and other endpoints. The analysis e...

https://engineeringresources.spectrum.ieee.org/free/w_tecm18/prgm.cgi

Rapid and resourceful technological improvisation has long been a mainstay of warfare, but the war in Ukraine is taking it to a new level. This improvisation is most conspicuous in the ceaselessl...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ukraine-hackers-war

If you’re an astrophysicist trying to detect signals from the early universe after the big bang , Earth is not a great place to be. Yes, this planet is our home, warm and wet and brimming with...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/lunar-telescope

New analysis of the former Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine shows that it may have been deteriorating long before it collapsed in June 2023, amid credible reports of explosions. An international team o...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/synthetic-aperture-radar-kakhovka-dam

The Mobile World Congress (MWC), a technology convention held each year in Barcelona, placed a spotlight on rollable phones like the Phantom Ultimate, a scroll-like concept from Tecno Mobile, an...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/rollable-smartphone

To gain a better understanding of the brain, why not draw inspiration from it? At least, that’s what researchers at Brown University did, by building a wireless communications system that mimic...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/brain-machine-interface-2667619198

Smartphones have a scaling problem. Specifically, the radio-frequency (RF) filters that every phone—and every wireless device in general—uses to extract information from isolated wireless sig...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/rf-filter-6g-terahertz

In addition to flags, spacecraft parts, and poop , Apollo astronauts left behind a quintet of seismic stations on the moon’s surface. In the 1970s, those stations gave selenologists (scientist...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/distributed-acoustic-sensing

The FCC has once again rejected a Starlink plan to deploy thousands of internet satellites in very low earth orbits (VLEO) ranging from 340 to 360 kilometers. In an order published last week , th...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/starlink-vleo-below-iss

A new ultra-energy-efficient tiny laser on a chip could enable powerful medical sensors to fit within a phone, new research finds. The new device is a kind of frequency comb —a specialized la...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/frequency-comb-2667465105

Using 3-D stacks of reflectors on microchips could triple data rates of wireless links to help speed development of 6G communications, a new study finds. Most current wireless communications te...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/6g-wireless-reflector-chips

As wireless systems become complex and reach for more spectrum, RF engineers must rely on high-fidelity simulation solutions to model and test their proposed new networks effectively. We offe...

https://www.ansys.com/webinars/wireless-channel-modeling-for-dynamic-terrestrial-environments-2?utm_campaign=industry&utm_medium=paid-trade&utm_source=ieee&utm_content=field_high%02tech_RFModeler__webinar%02live_register_eblast,%20displayEmpty_en_global&campaignID=701Pf000006uLKsIAM&utm_term=

Wireless spectrum is always at a premium—if you’ve ever tried to connect to Wi-Fi in a crowded airport or stadium, you know the pain that comes from crowded spectrum use. That’s why the ind...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/wifi-7-qualcomm

2023 wasn’t a great year for AI detectors. Leaders like GPTZero surged in popularity but faced a backlash as false positives led to incorrect accusations. Then OpenAI quietly tossed ice-cold w...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-detection

Join us for an insightful webinar on high-speed data acquisition in the context of Distributed Fiber Optic Sensing (DFOS) and learn more about the critical role that high-performance digitizers p...

https://go.teledynelecroy.com/dfos_webinar_ieee

This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore. Carmakers can lose as much as US $22,000 per minute when manufacturing lines go down. Internet...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/internet-of-things-batteryless

The first commercial silicon chip that includes open-source, built-in hardware security was announced today by the OpenTitan coalition. This milestone represents another step in the growth o...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/open-titan-chip

In the days before the U.S. Democratic Party’s New Hampshire primary election on 23 January, potential voters began receiving a call with AI-generated audio of a fake President Biden urging t...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-robocalls-2667266649

Most people have probably experienced the frustration of weak Wi-Fi signals. Even getting a network to cover every corner of a fairly modest house can be a challenge. That’s not a problem for ...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/wi-fi-halow

The rising popularity of artificial intelligence has impacted the entire world, including the tiny island of Anguilla. Located in the Caribbean, the country, home to about 15,000 people, has a un...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-domains

Starlink sent and received texts over a 4G/LTE connection between mobile phones via its latest generation of satellites, called v2mini, for the first time this month , following similar projects ...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/satellite-cellphone-starlink

Join us for this webinar on RF GaN amplifier design using electromagnetic/thermal 3D solvers. We will discuss the step-by-step process of building a GaN amplifier, beginning with the transistor m...

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Last month, Meta began rolling out default end-to-end encryption to Messenger, its one-billion-plus-member messaging platform spun off from Facebook. The long-standing app has incorporated end-...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/end-to-end-encryption-messenger

When 7-year-old John Cioffi ran up to the Bell System pavilion at the 1964-1965 World’s Fair in New York City, he couldn’t wait to see the first telephone with video: the much-lauded Pictu...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/inventor-of-dsl-altered-connectivity

Producing photons one at a time on demand at room temperature is a key requirement for the rollout of a quantum internet—and the practical quantum computers that would undergird that network. T...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/single-photon-emitter

Josh Coker’s Facebook page doesn’t show any MAGA memes or Trump quotes. He wasn’t live-streaming on 6 January 2021, and no one has ever stepped forward to identify him as one of the mob t...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/capitol-riot-prosecutions-technology

As IEEE Spectrum editors, we pride ourselves on spotting promising technologies and following them from the research phase through development and ultimately deployment. In every January issue, ...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/technology-forecast-2024