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Wi-Fi 8 Is Coming. Strangely, It Isn’t Really About Faster Internet
2+ hour, 26+ min ago (797+ words) Home → Research → Technology With each new generation of Wi-Fi, we’ve been promised more speed. Wi-Fi 6 was faster than Wi-Fi 5. Wi-Fi 7 pushed theoretical bandwidth into territory that would be absurdly excessive for most households. So, naturally, Wi-Fi 8 should be even faster....
Wi-Fi Routers Can Identify People with Stunning Precision (Even When Their Phones Are Off)
1+ week, 1+ day ago (869+ words) A by-product of modern Wi-Fi could soon be used to identify you. Researchers in Germany have warned that ordinary Wi-Fi could become a surprisingly powerful surveillance tool. A team at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology showed that Wi-Fi signals can reveal…...
Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Explains Where He Sees Wikipedia Between AI Chatbots and a Dead Internet
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1798+ words) In an age of AI hallucinations and collapsing trust, Jimmy Wales argues that Wikipedia’s human transparency may be exactly what makes it worth trusting. For much of its 25-year life, Wikipedia has lived with a big question mark beside its…...
Strava’s Heatmap Is Accidentally Becoming a Map of Where People Want to Live
1+ week, 4+ day ago (560+ words) People have discovered an unintended use for Strava's heatmap....
One ChatGPT User Generated Nearly 28000 Fanfiction Chats and It Gets Even More Bizarre From There
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (601+ words) AI is turning fiction into an endless, private, personalized loop. Somewhere on the internet, one anonymous person spent months asking ChatGPT to thousands of variations of the same fanfiction. Normally, we’d chalk this up to the “weird corners of the…...
Your Old Phones Are Probably Sitting in a Drawer and Researchers Say That Is a Bigger Problem Than You Rhink
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (257+ words) People don’t usually plan to hold onto their old devices, but that’s what many end up doing. Better information about recycling and reselling options could change that....
People Who Used Instagram for Years Were More Likely to Be Fooled a Stranger's Face Was Their Own in Bizarre VR Experiment
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (279+ words) A new study suggests Instagram may shape not just how people judge their looks but how their brains decide what counts as their own face...
A $200 ChatGPT Plan Would Cost Them $14,000 If You Used It To the Max
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (196+ words) AI subscriptions have a massive money problem....
A Student With Radio Gear Halted Taiwan’s Bullet Trains and Exposed a Huge Security Gap
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (637+ words) His defense is hilarious. A university student in Taiwan allegedly used a homemade radio setup to send a fake emergency alarm into the country’s high-speed rail system, briefly disrupting train service and exposing a security problem that had been sitting…...
Your Phone Really Does Get Heavier When You It's Full (But You Can't Feel It)
4+ mon, 9+ hour ago (102+ words) Digital files have weight, but your hand will never notice....