Standards

Wifi, Bluetooth, and NFC are well-established specs in modern smartphones, and if Samsung has its way, UWB is going…

Just when it seemed that we’d all settled on one industry standard video input/output to make use of, along comes…

If you buy a smart home device right now, it’s more than likely it’ll work with Amazon Alexa, or Google Assistant,…

USB Type-C, or simply USB-C, sounds fine in theory—a single port to handle charging, data transfer, video output,…

Wireless charging has been held back by poor tech for many years, but now we’re seeing major manufacturers integrate…

Just when you thought you could chitchat with authority about USB standards at your next dinner party, a new one…

You can order the same drink at bars all over the world, but how much booze each order is really going to get you…

You probably take the DisplayPort on your laptop for granted, but the folks that develop the standard have been…

Have you heard? HTTP/2 is finally finished. That means that pretty soon webpages will load faster; connections…

If you think your 4K laptop drips with graphical power, remember that all things are relative—and a new video…

A consortium of companies just announced a new wireless networking protocol for the home called Thread. It's…

Standards, formats, protocols. There are thousands of them! Probably! I've never counted, I've always been too buys…

Along with snappy Sandy Bridge processors and beefy GPUs, Apple's new MacBook Pros have a superfast, versatile new…

To help prod along our slow, inexorable march towards the HTML5 web standard, and because everything today needs bran…

What a pleasant surprise! The fellows over at Create Digital Music have discovered that iOS 4.2 will allow iPads,…

CNET reports that Intel's Light Peak, a high-speed connection standard capable of transferring data at 10 gigabits…

Researchers at the National Physics Laboratory in the U.K. have modeled what they believe to be the perfect human…

Earlier today, the Environmental Protection Agency and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration showed off…

MPEG LA, the group that licenses the h.264 video codec, has extended its royalty-free use (for free internet video) f…

WiMAX isn't even remotely ubiquitous in these United States, but that hasn't stopped progress on its successor, the…