Smart home assistants are quickly gaining traction among consumers and as a result, so are their smart home accessories. To go along with the Amazon Echo Dot, I picked up a pair of the TP-Link HS110 ...

YONKERS - Improvements to wireless parking meters' Wi-Fi have not prevented unwarranted parking tickets from being issued downtown. Problems with lagging modems that don't quickly transmit payment ...

Imagine a world where smartphones, laptops, wearables, and other electronics are powered without batteries. Researchers have taken a step in that direction, with the first fully flexible device that ...

Energy harvesting is all the rage at the moment. I’d like devices that convert waste energy into electricity. If I could, I would fill my house with all sorts of high-tech Rube Goldberg-esque machines ...

We are constantly surrounded by electromagnetic waves such as Wi-Fi. Researchers tested a device to convert this ambient energy into energy for electronic devices. We are constantly surrounded by ...

If your Wi-Fi signal is struggling to reach every corner of your home, a signal booster — also known as a Wi-Fi extender — might be the fix you need. Whether you're dealing with annoying dead zones, ...

Some notable products have already appeared in the Wi-Fi Alliance’s certification database. Some notable products have already appeared in the Wi-Fi Alliance’s certification database. is a former ...

Originally hailing from Troy, Ohio, Ry Crist is a writer, a text-based adventure connoisseur, a lover of terrible movies and an enthusiastic yet mediocre cook. A CNET editor from 2013 to 2024, Ry's ...

Scientists have been working for years to harvest the power of ambient radio waves to power small devices, and these days there is hardly a richer source of these signals than Wi-Fi networks.