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Ambient Backscatter as Battery Replacement Gaining Public Visibility

A new technology that has gained visibility in the past few months is “ambient backscatter”—a method to reuse energy that replaces batteries in providing energy, leveraging existing and nearby energy sources through existing radio frequencies.

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Rajini Padmanaban
Is the Mobile Payments Security Problem Solved?

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham announced they have created a verification mechanism using sound to help eliminate security weaknesses of Near Field Communication—a form of radio-frequency identification—to help prevent security vulnerabilities via mobile devices.

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Pamela Rentz