Technical Headline News Archive - April 2016

Technology Headline News Archives - RF Cafe

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4/29/2016

Radio Spectrum in Latin America Far from Ideally Allocated

Researcher Accidentally Develops Way to Make Batteries Last 400x Longer

The Day After the iPhone Fell

Samsung Holds Lead in Flat Global Smartphone Market

Comcast Bumps Its Trial Data Caps to 1TB

The Secret of NASA's 'Impossible' Fuel-Free Thruster?

4/28/2016

Smartphone Shipments Fall to 292M in Q1, iPhone Plunges 44%

2017 iPhone May Be a Glass Act

Physicists Detect the Enigmatic Spin Momentum of Light

The Universe Where Space-Time Becomes Discrete

Atoms Placed Precisely in Silicon Can Act as Quantum Simulator

Is Radio Focused Enough on the Smartphone?

4/27/2016

2016's Top 10 Tech Cars

Boeing-Inspired Golf Club Helps Win the Masters

Gel-Coated Nanowires Yield Batteries with 'Indefinite' Cycle Life

NI Intros World's 1st mmWave SDR to Help Speed 5G Research

1st Chinese Aircraft Carrier Enters Service (dig the upward-curving deck)

Towards Observing Quantum Physics in Real Life

1:5 Families in the U.S., Nobody Works (w/record DJIA - woohoo!)

4/26/2016

Intel to Cut 12,000 U.S. Jobs Due to Decline in PCs (it sought >8k H1B visas for foreign workers since 2010)

DARPA Awards GPS-Beating Sensor Development Contract

Collegiate Ham Radio Dinner Set for Dayton Hamvention Weekend

Google Formally Charged with Abusing Android Market Dominance

U.S. Cyber Officials Worry 'Milware' will Target Infrastructure

What If Your Smartphone Never Got Old?

4/25/2016

China's Chip Patent Growth May Be Short Lived

U.S. Looks to Expand Range of Satellite-Fixing Robots

Is There More Plastic Than Fish in the Sea? (interesting - maybe it's plastic causing sea levels to rise)

4/24/2016

How GPS May Be Altering Our Brains

Annual Armed Forces Day Cross-Band Communications Test Set for May 14

As Pentagon Dawdles, Silicon Valley Sells Its Newest Tech Abroad

4/22/2016

From Text Neck to Blackberry Thumb

On-the-Air Activity to Highlight International Marconi Day on April 23

Google Mobile Model Imperiled as EU Readies Antitrust Charges

Fastest Flexible Silicon Transistor Created

Phone Payments Could Replace Cash Within Years

China Reveals Autonomous Electric Car Concept That Could Pave Way for Driverless Taxis

4/21/2016

Company Settles Charges of Operating Cellphone Jammers

Fossil Fuels Could Be Phased out Worldwide in a Decade (all electric cars, planes, trains, boats, heating w/o dino power?)

Sentinel-1B Will Complete European Radar Vision Initiative

Patterned Liquid Crystals Guide Light Through Planar Lens

For Sale: One Used Internet Company Called Yahoo

FCC to Implement Broadband Labels

4/20/2016

U.S. Senate to Americans: Your Security Is Not Our Problem

Tech Companies Face Greater Scrutiny for Paying Workers With Stock

IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting 2016 Call for Papers

FCC Fines TV Station for Failing to Allow Inspection

The Single-Atom Engine That Could

Executive Interview: Steve Takaki, Executive VP of RFMW

4/19/2016

Intel Reportedly Readies Mass Layoff

Location Data on 2 Apps Enough to Identify Someone, Says Study

What Engineers Can Learn from the Maker Movement

SpaceX's Reusable Rocket Makes Historic Landing

RF Power Amplifier Firm ACCO Snags $35M in Funding

UK Looks to Lead Superconducting Spintronic Computing

45% of Americans Pay No Federal Income Tax (it's not 'the rich')

4/18/2016

FCC Seek Comments on ANSI C63.26-2015 for Tx Testing

ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology Application Deadline is May 1

Wi-Fi Capacity Doubled at Less Than Half the Size

4/17/2016

Justice Department to Pentagon on Mergers: Back Off

Will 'Nest' Thermostat Be IoT's First High-Profile Failure?

Gartner Agrees 2016 Chip Market Will Fall

4/15/2016

Is Your Computer Making You Blind?

Tech Companies Creating Strategic Platforms to Support the IoT

Global 5G Service Revenue to Reach $247B in 2025

Navy Orders Radar-Spoofing Gear from Mercury

Verizon Wireline Workers' Strike to Start Wednesday

For Indian Start-ups, Tenacity Beats High Tech

4/14/2016

China Steps up Fabless Game

KT and NEC Successfully Test 5G Backhaul Solution Utilizing E-band Spectrum

Could Satellite Messaging Startup 'Higher Ground' Bring Down the 911 System?

Send your Own Satellite to Space for Just $1000

"This Is Our Sputnik Moment"

Unmanned Plane for Launching Satellites Goes to Phase 2

4/13/2016

Blackberry to Launch 2 Android Phones

Youth Rally Will Be a Highlight of ARRL's Hamvention 2016 Activities

Automakers, Suppliers Ratchet up Autonomous Car Programs

Optus Cutting Nearly 500 Jobs

FBI Director Says Unlocking Method Won't Work on Newer iPhones (note to terrorists: upgrade your iPhone now)

Vodafone Blasts Germany's Decision on Vectoring

4/12/2016

AM/FM Listeners Changes Stations Often While Driving

U.S. Says China Internet Censorship a Burden for Trade

U.S. Army Operators Shift to Cyber Electromagnetic Activities

Timber Skyscrapers Could Transform London's Skyline

Almost Half of Dropped USB Sticks Will Get Plugged In

New Retrievable Satellite SJ-10 Launched by China

4/11/2016

Windows 10 Preview Build 14316 Brings Bash Unix Shell

Global Semiconductor Sales Dip Slightly in February

Modified Laser Method Creates Micro Energy Units

4/10/2016

Organic and Printed Electronics Industry is Hiring

Verizon Mulling Takeover Bid for Yahoo

EU Court Says Linking to Copyrighted Material Isn't Illegal

4/8/2016

So Long Lithium, Hello Bacteria Batteries?

Nokia to Cut Jobs in Bid to Hit €900M Synergy Target

Join BAE Systems' Masters and Higher Apprenticeship Schemes

World Amateur Radio Day 2016 Will Celebrate Amateur Radio's Contribution to Society

Facebook Groups Act as Weapons Bazaars for Militias

Man Given Jail Time for Sending Gun Emoji to Ex

4/7/2016

Bristol University Researchers Claim Record Spectrum Efficiency for 5G

Heat and Light Get Larger at the Nanoscale

Wireless M-Bus Evaluation Kit for IoT

U.S. Drone Market Growing Despite Cuts Elsewhere

Samsung Patents Contact Lenses with Built-in Camera

Japanese Networks Ordered to Stop Heavy Discounting

4/6/2016

Smartphone Sales Growth Projected to Slip to 7%

Tesla Model 3 Electric Car Pre-orders Accelerate to 276,000

FCC Votes to Propose New Privacy Rules for InSP

Death by Overwork on Rise Among Japan's Workers

Marines Aim for EW Jammers on Every Airplane

FBI's Method of Unlocking iPhone May Never Reach Apple

The FBI's Ability to Hack iPhone May Not Last Much Longer

FBI Agrees to Unlock Another iPhone in Homicide Case

4/5/2016

Superconductivity Seen in New Light

Tesla Gets Ready to Pull Wraps off $30k Model 3

FCC Approves Broadband Subsidy for Low-Income Households (yet more handouts - wonderful)

GaN Gets Somber Reception at APEC 2016

New Use for X-Rays: A Radar Gun for Unruly Atoms

What the Tesla Model 3 Will Mean to the Auto Industry

4/4/2016

Wireless Standards Ensure Connectivity

"Discover the HF Experience" Aims to Dazzle Technicians, Newcomers

>9:10 Online Users in Indonesia Access the Internet via Smartphone

4/3/2016

Ofcom Allocates IoT Spectrum

Quantum Computing with Single Photons Getting Closer to Reality

4/1/2016

FCC Kicks off Incentive Auction

Google Unveils Landline Phone, Which Lives in Cloud

Radio Revenue Totaled $14.7B in 2015

Linux at 25: Why It Flourished While Others Fizzled

New Magnet Discovered

Russia May Launch up to 3 Glonass Satellites in 2016