Samsung helps O2 Telefónica bring more reliable 4G and 5G networks to Germany

Samsung Networks and O2 Telefonica have announced the launch of the first commercial site in Germany that uses Open RAN and vRAN technologies. These companies have used these technologies to make O2 Telefonica’s 4G and 5G networks more reliable. They have been testing these new technologies since October 2023. Samsung’s Open RAN and vRAN technologies … Read more

Three ways ChatGPT helps me in my academic writing

For Dritjon Gruda, artificial-intelligence chatbots have been a huge help in scientific writing and peer review.Credit: Vladimira Stavreva-Gruda Confession time: I use generative artificial intelligence (AI). Despite the debate over whether chatbots are positive or negative forces in academia, I use these tools almost daily to refine the phrasing in papers that I’ve written, and … Read more

Apple’s Vision Pro successfully helps nurse assist in spinal surgery – and there’s more mixed-reality medical work on the way

In a fascinating adoption of technology, a surgical team in the UK recently used Apple’s Vision Pro to help with a medical procedure. It wasn’t a surgeon who donned the headset, but Suvi Verho, the lead scrub nurse (also known as a theater nurse) at the Cromwell Hospital in London. Scrub nurses help surgeons by … Read more

Twelve South TimePorter helps organize Apple Watch bands

If you own an Apple Watch there is a good chance that you have more than one Apple Watch band, some people have many Apple Watch bands and they change them as often as they change their outfits, this is where the Twelve South TimePorter. The Twelve South TimePorter is designed to be the ultimate … Read more