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In the near future, autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence (AI) will play a larger role in how your food is grown. Farming is as old as civilization itself, but with industrialization, modern agriculture grew in scale and sophistication to degrees never seen...

COVID-19 has proven to be a very deadly global virus. As governments around the world struggle to contain the spread of the contagion, many are wondering what tools might be available to moderate future pandemics.  While it is probably unrealistic to expect any...

Even before COVID-19 drove up a year’s worth of bandwidth demand growth in less than a month, network operators have seen a 50 percent annual increase in demand. 5G is expected to tax capacity even more. Nokia’s fiber optics expert Steve Vogelsang discusses the...

Why would we want to build a parallel reality populated by digital twins? Sure, it sounds cool, yet this “virtual twinning” effectively extends the possibilities of both the “world of atoms and the world of bits“ as HoloLens inventor Alex Kipman eloquently put it in a...

In the 2013 film Pacific Rim, humanity faces an apocalyptic scenario in which an inter-dimensional rift in the Pacific Ocean unleashes gigantic ‘Kaiju’ monsters that are hellbent on destruction. In response, they build massive mech warriors called Jaegers to fight the...

If 80 percent of wireless infrastructure is aimed at the roads, how are our mobile networks handling the COVID-19 crush of traffic at home? Enter the Wizards of Network Optimization, who don’t have to climb a pole to ensure your episode of Tiger King streams...

Marshall McLuhan once famously observed, “First we build the tools, then they build us.” Building on artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and 5G communications, advanced software systems are remaking the nature and complexity of human...

Several major tech conferences have been canceled this year due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, including Mobile World Congress, Facebook F8, South by Southwest, E3 Expo, and many others. But in some cases, they’re going virtual instead. In early March,...

A ‘build it and they will come’ approach won’t be enough for telcos to fully capitalize on 5G’s enormous commercial potential, according to a new global research study by Omdia and Nokia. Instead, communication service providers (CSPs) must proactively develop 5G use...