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In 1932, a Bell Labs engineer trying to solve mysterious static from transatlantic phone calls that repeated every 23 hours and 56 minutes accidentally discovered radio waves from the center of the Milky Way

In the early 1930s, Bell Labs engineer Karl Jansky embarked on an investigation into transatlantic radio interference. By constructing a large antenna to trace an enigmatic hiss, he uncovered a signal that deviated from known sources. This signal, which followed a sidereal day cycle, indicated a celestial origin. Jansky's serendipitous…

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Bishnu S. Atal: The Indian-born scientist whose breakthrough helped make mobile phone calls possible

Bishnu S. Atal, an accomplished engineer from India, made remarkable contributions to the fields of digital telephony and cellular technology. His groundbreaking research concentrated on speech processing and data compression, which significantly minimized the requirements for data transmission. He pioneered innovations like linear predictive coding and code-excited linear prediction, which…

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Robert Smith, CEO of Vista Equity Partners, makes plea to businesses adopting AI: ‘Don’t destroy your intern program’

Robert F. Smith, who has made a career in technology, said young people must be part of companies’ workforces.

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'Has the Wi-Fi industry been solving the wrong problem?' A team of former Bell Labs and Nokia engineers wants to make your router 10x better thanks to a unique chip

WavKong introduces a router using Digital Pre-Distortion to improve Wi-Fi consistency, questioning whether industry focus on peak speeds addresses real-world performance.

TechRadar

"There's nothing quite like it": The singular genius of Laurie Spiegel's Music Mouse, with Eventide's Tony Agnello

40 years ago an idiosyncratic piece of software opened new doors for electronic music. Now Eventide has revitalised Spiegel’s classic Music Mouse instrument for a new generation

MusicRadar

“We are building a system to stimulate and retrieve energy to Earth”: Electro-Harmonix wants to harness the magnetosphere’s energy to solve the AI power crisis

Brand founder Mike Matthews has teamed up with a former Bell Labs scientist to shape his plans

Guitar World

This obscure company could’ve taken the storage market by storm – but building commercially viable holographic storage was simply a bridge too far

InPhase Technologies could've taken the storage market by storm, but it just couldn't get a solid working product.

TechRadar

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The transistor was patented 75 years ago today — the age of silicon and software began with a three-electrode circuit element using semiconductor materials

75 years ago, the three Bell Labs scientists behind the invention of the transistor would, at last, have the U.S. Patent in their hands.

Tom’s Hardware

Science history: Invention of the transistor ushers in the computing era — Oct. 3, 1950

On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the transistor age and the era of modern computing.

LiveScience

From Nazi rockets to drone motors, the secret military history behind the studio gear we use today

How military conflict has fuelled the development of technology that’s now essential in modern music production

MusicRadar

Nokia helped build the mobile world. Now it wants to seed the next one—from inside Bell Labs

The 160-year-old company has repeatedly reinvented itself.

Fortune

“No device is ever perfect, nor is photographic film” –George E Smith, co-inventor of the CCD sensor, has died

George E Smith, one of the inventors of the CCD sensor, the precursor to digital cameras, has died

Digital Camera World

"They inhabited the future of their time, but they sound historical to me now": A music professor breaks down the theory behind Kraftwerk's Autobahn

Following the landmark album's 50th birthday, we pop the hood on Kraftwerk's breakout release to inspect its musical mechanics

MusicRadar

I visited the set of Severance season 2 and it was a perfect, dystopian dream that serves as a reminder that "the work is mysterious and important"

Our writer visits the unnervingly florescent halls of Lumon Industries, chatting to Ben Stiller about what fans can expect from the show's return

Total Film

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Arno Penzias obituary

US astrophysicist whose discovery of the cosmic microwave radiation resulting from the big bang brought him the Nobel prize

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Arno Penzias, co-discoverer of the Big Bang's afterglow, dies at age 90

Penzias, with his colleague Robert Woodrow Wilson, discovered the cosmic microwave background while working at Bell Labs in the 1960s. The finding was the smoking gun evidence for the Big Bang.

WEKU

The father of the cellphone predicts we'll have devices embedded in our skin next

Martin Cooper made the first-ever cellphone call exactly 50 years ago. He says artificial intelligence is the new frontier.

IT Pro

Ofcom approves 5G mmWave, but what are its benefits?

As 5G rollouts continue across the world, regulators are seeking to auction new, high-frequency spectrums classified as millimetre-wave (mmWave). After much consideration, Ofcom has ruled in 2023 it will make mmWave spectrum available across the UK to improve data capacity and speeds, and boost innovation across various industries. SEE MORE…

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60 years ago, a forgotten NASA balloon in space changed how we watch TV forever

Echo 1 launched to space in the 1960s — on April 24, 1962, it made history by transmitting the first television broadcast via satellite, transforming global communications in the process.

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