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A company has designed a tiny, inexpensive chip that can wirelessly transmit signals at up to 1.5 Gbits per second now and possibly 30 Gbps in the future.

A team of researchers has used computer analysis, machine translation, and other technologies to crack an encrypted 18th-century document that had previously resisted decryption.

Hackers and security researchers are increasing efforts to find problems with the control systems that run factories, nuclear-power plants, and other critical facilities.

A research team has developed a relatively inexpensive device for writing Braille that solves the problem of blind users having to find keys on a virtual keyboard that appears on a flat glass touchscreen.

German researchers have found serious security problems with two cloud systems and say these flaws probably exist in other cloud architectures.

Researchers have developed a system designed to prevent hackers from attacking implantable medical devices such as heart pacemakers.

University of Washington scientists have built a transistor that uses protons to send information, potentially enabling devices that could communicate with living things.

Japanese researchers have developed a pedestrian navigation system that uses haptics so that users can watch where they’re going and not have to look at maps or a device. .

Rice University researchers have developed a full-duplex wireless technology that could double network throughput inexpensively without requiring new hardware.

A Swiss semiconductor vendor has developed a system for mobile devices that determines a user’s location when neither GPS nor Wi-Fi is available.