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The Future is Here and It Is Wireless

CIO Business Intelligence

When you visit a stadium and can enter using a ticket on your smartphone – it’s wireless technology that enables you to retrieve your ticket so you can enter, check the scores while you’re inside, and book a rideshare for the trip home. The future is here, and it is increasingly wireless. 5G changes the connectivity rules.

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Marine Corps enlists RPA, 5G, and AR/VR to retool fighting force

CIO Business Intelligence

In addition, the depots are each deploying private 5G wireless networks to enable the network speeds necessary to monitor and manage the depot kitting, or parts bundling, operations. Under the new system, after the depot receives parts and gear, they are then barcoded and placed on an automated conveyer.

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Alaska Airlines will remove kiosks, install iPads, and use facial recognition to streamline lobbies

GeekWire

For example, the iPad-based bag tag stations will also scan the barcodes on paper boarding passes. There will also be options for passengers who don’t have a smartphone or want to use one for a boarding pass. See this previous GeekWire story for more.) ”

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Kyocera DuraForce Ultra 5G UW review: extreme durability for an extreme price

The Verge

It’s common for rugged phones to feature older processors and lack modern features — these phones often have specialized uses, like barcode scanning or taking payments, and more or less just need to keep working in harsh environments. The phone supports Qi wireless charging, which is uncommon among rugged phones.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

And so I was always kind of into you know, wireless stuff. It's always seems kind of magical, I guess to people, you know, wireless transmission and everything else and how it works. A lot of embedded parts, some wireless aspects. For a long time I was working purely on analyzing the wireless network.