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How your smartphone uses its co

This year, the smartphone world pushed forward with new generations of some of the most popular mobile processors, including Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 800, Nvidia’s Tegra 4, and Apple’s 64-bit A7. Along with that, recent smartphone introductions have cast light on the coprocessors that handle specific — some might say mundane — tasks. But what those coprocessors may lack in sizzle, they …

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Why the FCC needs to get with the times, finally

We don’t make phone calls the way we did a century ago. Regulations need to get with the times, too. U.S. Army We are in the midst of a transition away from copper wire-based communications services to broadband Internet-based services — a transition that then-FCC commissioner Michael Powell called the “Great Digital Broadband Migration” way back in the year 2000. …

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