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Can the sports and entertainment industries adapt to a low-touch world using technology?
As it becomes clear that COVID-19 will make it difficult – if not impossible – for regular sporting and entertainment activities to resume in the near future, can technology help us navigate these new challenges? We take a look at some of the emerging tech that...
5G opens up a superhighway to drive digital innovation in pro sports
As the final seconds ticked off the clock, Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry heaved a pointless Hail Mary shot at the basket. Sumit Arora, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment’s (MLSE) Senior Director of Strategy and Analytics, Digital Labs, was in the stands...
Podcast episode 32 – 5G Security: The digital ‘Beware of Dog’ sign
Varonis’ Field CTO and hacker Brian Vecci spent his life breaking into computers. With the roll-out of 5G, the number of break-in opportunities is set to soar. And if you think the biggest security risk is the Post-It Note password, you’d be wrong. Below is a...
CBRS PALs: Everybody wins
The Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) auction for Priority Access Licenses (PALs) in the 3.5 GHz spectrum that the FCC closed in August 2020 was no ordinary auction for mid-spectrum. The license holders have to share the spectrum with incumbent users and also...
The many flavors of artificial intelligence
Artificial Intelligence has become a nearly ubiquitous term nowadays. A Deloitte survey revealed that most companies – a staggering 90 percent of those approached by the research and consultancy firm – consider cognitive technologies to be of crucial strategic...
How tech can bridge the disability divide for a billion people
When I first went to a blind school in the early 1970s, the only technology available for visually impaired people was a braille machine and magnifying glasses. Fifty years later, we are on the brink of fully bridging the disability divide through the use of...
Escaping the tech industry’s bias loop
The rise of the tech industry as an economic engine for global ecosystems has generated a success matrix that embeds archaic societal archetypes. On its path to ‘move fast and break things,’ products and services have built-in biases, spawning flawed paradigms and...
Freedom to innovate and create: How can Open Digital Architecture help CSPs?
The spotlight is still on 5G, but the network transformation that is underway is much wider in scope and goes deep into all parts of our connectivity infrastructure, in which wireless and wireline are now converged. But it is only by a well-concerted evolution of the...
Dynamic spectrum sharing could be the 5G solution that wireless operators are looking for
While 5G presents some big opportunities for wireless operators in terms of new services and capabilities, it also requires that operators have access to large amounts of spectrum — specifically mid-band spectrum — to make it a reality. Dynamic spectrum...