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The secret life of white

Tim Newton of Neul–the company running the radio side of the white-space trials in the U.K.’s Bute and Cambridge–detailed the engineering challenges of the task when he spoke at the Future of Wireless conference in late June. His thesis (PDF)–that the radio world white-space systems inhabit is very different to that of classic wireless engineering, and much novel thinking is …

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Mobile phones probably don’t cause cancer, says new report

Mobile phones probably don’t cause cancer after all, according to a new study from boffins in Britain, Sweden and the US. The brainiacs concluded that “the trend in the accumulating evidence is increasingly against the hypothesis that mobile-phone use can cause brain tumours in adults”. The researchers haven’t ruled out negative effects on younger phone users, however. Reuters reports that the team …

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