Pandemic Chip Shortages Are Shutting Down Automotive Production

Once upon a time, the automobile was a mostly mechanical beast, but no longer. Advanced electronics have weaved their way into the modern car, from engine to infotainment and climate control to the buttons now sprinkled throughout the passenger cabin. …read more

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Dangerous KRACKs in Wi-Fi Security Puts Most Devices at Risk

WPA2, the most widely used Wi-Fi security standard, has a number of flaws that could allow hackers to snoop on users’ internet traffic or, worse, to inject malware into it. The vulnerabilities are in the protocol itself, more precisely in the four-way handshake between clients and access points. It allows attackers to mount an evil..

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Millimeter Wave RADAR Tracks Gestures

If we believe science fiction — from Minority Report to Iron Man, to TekWar — the future of computer interfaces belongs to gestures. There are many ways to read gestures, although often they require some sort of glove or IR emitter, which makes them less handy (no pun intended).

Some, like the Leap Motion, have not proved popular for a variety of reasons. Soli (From Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group) is a gesture sensor that uses millimeter-wave RADAR. The device emits a broad radio beam and then collects information including return time, energy, and frequency shift to gain …read more

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