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, ...

Smart city innovation is accelerating—so fast, in fact, that distant visions of the future are now becoming present-day realities, transforming how communities live, work and play. At the heart of ...