Wireless communication in industry is, of course, nothing new. Most applications of industrial wireless to date have involved either Wi-Fi or NFC (near field communication). But there’s growing ...

Over the last couple of years, it has become pretty much standard for phone brands to do an annual launch of new devices. Naturally, these come complete with the latest hardware and software ...

Find out if your Bluetooth earbuds or wireless headphones are vulnerable, and update your firmware just in case. These chips do far more than maintain a Bluetooth connection. They run the software ...

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group announced version 6.0 of the near-ubiquitous wireless technology in September 2024, adding some major new features that aim to improve Bluetooth's reliability, ...

Bluetooth is a technology for short-range data transmission that has become so ubiquitous in recent years that we can no longer imagine life without it. This makes it all the more annoying when ...

Bluetooth on your laptop or desktop PC can be extremely handy for connecting devices in a heartbeat. But when the Bluetooth toggle refuses to show up on your taskbar it can be very annoying, forcing ...

Listening to music via Bluetooth isn't as simple as plugging in a pair of headphones and playing audio from your device. Yet Bluetooth headphones and earbuds offer a wireless connection that's ...

Bluetooth technology has been around for over three decades, and it's one of those modern conveniences we rarely talk about. It makes our lives much easier by allowing fast, wireless synchronization ...

If you have two headphones, speakers, or any other Bluetooth hardware, you can now share audio between the two devices simultaneously on a Copilot+ PC. Microsoft is testing a new feature called ...

A team of engineers has demonstrated for the first time that the Bluetooth signals emitted constantly by our mobile phones have a unique fingerprint that can be used to track individuals' movements. A ...

No more muffled audio when you’re playing a game and chatting, or on a Microsoft Teams call. No more muffled audio when you’re playing a game and chatting, or on a Microsoft Teams call. is a senior ...

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