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IoT early warning system helps save people from mudslides

Villagers escape mudslides and floods in rural El Salvador thanks to an early warning system built with IoT devices and wireless RF mesh networks

Linux at 25: How Linux changed the world

A devoted practitioner offers an eyewitness account of the rise of Linux and the open source movement, plus analysis of where Linux is taking us now

Who gets to telecommute once Zika’s bite comes closer?

IT firms, and others, face a quandary about how to respond to worried workers

MIT researchers discover method to triple wireless speeds

Synchronized wave phases are used in MegaMIMO 2.0

How online businesses grow sales in the offline world

The efficiency of ecommerce sales with one-click checkout and third-party fulfillment can come at the cost of intimacy between you and your customer. Here’s how some online businesses are getting personal.

Netgear joins Wi-Fi mesh wave with Orbi system

Samsung bets on Tizen smartphones again with a new launch in India

The company has launched the new Samsung Z2 4G smartphone

The hidden cause of slow Internet and how to fix it

The culprit is a TCP-related phenomenon known as bufferbloat.

EFF condemns Windows 10 data collection

Advocacy group tells Microsoft to 'come clean' over telemetry, and offer 'meaningful opt-outs'

Beware the ‘Windows Self-Healing Tool’ app

It could cause a lot of harm and very little good