This upcoming Wi-Fi standard will give your router motion-sensing superpowers

Feb03
by on February 3, 2022 at 9:00 am
Posted In: Plugged


Wi-Fi is everywhere and we can’t really do without it. But the current-gen Wi-Fi standard is limited to data transfer between devices, and with every new iteration, we just see better speeds and throughput. For IEEE — the body that overlooks formations of networking-related protocols like ethernet — the challenge is to enhance the standard’s capabilities beyond data transfer. The aim of the upcoming 802.11 bf protocol is to enable devices like phones and laptops to sense things in the environment — like detecting your movement in a room, and responding to gestures you make in the air. That’s right,…

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18 future jobs our tiny monkey brains aren’t ready for

Feb02
by on February 2, 2022 at 11:57 am
Posted In: Future of Work


There’s no way around it: work is changing. However, regardless of what hundreds of uninformed articles will argue on the matter, working itself is not going away anytime soon, however worthy of our time that discussion may be. Work is, in fact, ever-changing, ever-evolving, always progressively, never at once, as we create new problems just as fast as we solve old ones. Case in point: technology has allowed us to “invent” the Gig Economy, which has led to the creation of an entirely new industry of frankly terrible jobs. So, if work won’t disappear, but roles will evolve because of…

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