Author: Connected World

The 2023 MWC (formerly Mobile World Congress) event wrapped up last week in Barcelona, Spain. With new product announcements, exciting demos, and even a big company rebrand, the event was fun to follow. Since companies big and small save many of their most important announcements for these trade shows, events like MWC tend to provide a good look at what’s trending in the tech space and where it’s headed in the coming years. Besides snazzy device concepts like rolling screens on smartphones and laptops, overall trends at MWC this year included a lot of talk about the metaverse and alternate…

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Heating and cooling a home is certainly expensive. In fact, it costs a lot of money—and uses a lot of energy. The U.S. Energy Information Admin., says more than half of all home energy in the United States is used for heating and cooling. The good news is innovation is coming for HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) if you look inside what is happening at one university. At Purdue University, researchers have developed a scalable, automatable process that improves upon the traditional method to incorporate PCMs (phase change materials) into construction materials. The incorporation of PCMs like paraffin, esters,…

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Ransomware declined slightly in 2022 compared to 2021, according to the new IBM Security X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, and while that’s good news, there’s even better news. The new report suggests defenders were more successful in their efforts to detect and prevent ransomware in 2022. While it’s true that cyber criminals will continue to become more innovative in their efforts to sabotage and hijack, if defenders can continue on this path of improved detection and prevention, it’ll make the bad guys’ jobs way harder. In order to improve, it’s helpful to take a look at what went wrong in the…

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