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A new type of antenna uses plasma to focus radio waves and enable ultrafast wireless networks.

MIT researchers have developed a system that promises to make it easier for systems to recover from security breaches.

A company has developed a recommendation engine that uses AI to anticipate what users want even before they have a chance to ask.

As more people use smartphones like mobile computers, manufacturers are increasingly placing powerful, energy-efficient dual-core chips in the devices.

European academic researchers have developed a constellation of sturdy, lightweight flying robots using wireless communications that could be employed in mapping, remote sensing, ground searches, and other similar operations.

A company has designed a lighting-fixture-based system that offers an access point to the Internet or any backbone network to which a user can connect.

US National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a testing tool designed to cut costs by finding software flaws more efficiently than similar approaches.

Researchers have developed a high-tech brush that lets users create art by picking up images, video, audio, colors, and textures from objects and painting them onto a touch-screen canvas.

Personal mobile hotspots let users wirelessly access network services even when no traditional Wi-Fi hotspots are nearby.

Concerned organizations say basic flaws in Web-security design may be causing many websites that display padlock icons-designed to show that they're secure-to be unsafe.

Purdue University researchers are working on a small device that converts laser pulses into radio signals, which could enable high-speed wireless communications in place of many of the wired transmissions currently used in home and office systems.

A Carnegie Mellon University doctoral student has developed a prototype system that could let users turn their arms or hands into keyboards or display screens via acoustic vibrations produced by tapping their skin.

Researchers are beginning to work on an approach they call social TV, which seamlessly combines social networks and traditional television viewing.

A Canadian university researcher is working on ways to provide security for RFID technology. His approach would let users know when a reader is accessing information on an RFID tag or enable them to control access to the data.

A proposed specification that would standardize Web-based fonts promises to enable rich typography on the Web.