New design approaches to house 5G and IoT at the smart-city edge (Reader Forum)

The constantly increasing demand for reliable, high-throughput digital connectivity is the crucial driver behind the ongoing deployment of 5G cellular systems across North America. In response, telecom providers are investing billions to build out this critical infrastructure. Although the COVID-19 pandemic – and the more recent global strains and supply chain disruptions, such as production…

Women Return to the Workforce

Women left the workforce in waves during the pandemic—most due to lack of childcare. Now, many are looking to return, and they are eyeing one area in particular: STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). This is according to a new MetLife survey, which was conducted in September 2021 and consists of a representative sample of…

Battlefield 2042 Will Not Have In-Game Voice Chat at Launch

Players won’t be able to communicate with one another over in-game voice chat in Battlefield 2042 when the game launches. According to the game’s community manager, Kevin “Totalfps” Johnson, in-game voice chat won’t make it into Battlefield 2042 until after the game officially launches on November 19. Johnson recommended that until the feature is added, players use third-party…

Home, star, trucker – TechCrunch

Once I was recovered from the initial surrealism of Amazon launching its own home robot, I immediately thought about iRobot. The company cornered the home robotics market a decade ago, and while there are now countless robot vacuums, they’re all more or less riffs on the Roomba. The issue with having a big hit is…

Here’s how Rippling, fresh off its Series C round, aims to center companies around ’employee identity’ – TechCrunch

Late last month, Rippling, the now five-year-old company founded by serial entrepreneur Parker Conrad, raised $250 million in Series C funding in a round that pushed its valuation to a whopping $6.5 billion. Now, Conrad is taking the wraps off what had investors so excited in the outfit, which already helps companies manage their employees’…