Systems & Networks

5G delivering 100Mbps+ downloads in four UK cities

Electronics Weekly: 5G network testing by RootMetrics in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff and Nottingham has shown that while Vodafone and O2 delivered strong 5G median download speeds, EE is the leader when it comes to providing consistently broad availability plus fast speeds….

Why Apple and Google’s Virus Alert Apps Had Limited Success

New York Times: Sarah Cavey, a real estate agent in Denver, was thrilled last fall when Colorado introduced an app to warn people of possible coronavirus exposures. Based on software from Apple and Google, the state’s smartphone app uses Bluetooth signals to…

Foxconn the carmaker? Disruption in the era of electric vehicles

Financial Times: Foxconn does not normally care too much about style. Even its investor conferences are held at the drab concrete-block building that houses the Apple supplier’s headquarters in an industrial suburb of Taipei. But in March, the world’s largest contract…

Language models like GPT-3 could herald a new type of search engine

Technology Review: In 1998 a couple of Stanford graduate students published a paper describing a new kind of search engine: “In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present…