Blockchain could make smart devices far more secure, but sluggish data sharing has held it back. Researchers found that messy network connections cause massive slowdowns by flooding systems with ...

Ever since 2020, things have been different. The COVID-19 pandemic and its ensuing lockdowns changed things in ways that were impossible to fully understand at the time, but, over five years removed, ...

Once considered a far-off invention of the future, smart cities exist today as a way to improve and automate systems like transportation and energy management. Although smart cities are most often ...