The first large-scale measurement study of the connected-vehicle ecosystem. A connected car is a vehicle with built-in internet access — Wi-Fi, cellular, GPS — that lets it communicate constantly with its manufacturer and outside companies. Over 75% of vehicles sold … Read more
The first large-scale measurement study of the connected-vehicle ecosystem. A connected car is a vehicle with built-in internet access — Wi-Fi, cellular, GPS — that lets it communicate constantly with its manufacturer and outside companies. Over 75% of vehicles sold … Read more
PERSONAL TECH Vast majority of new devices on market still don’t give repair information to owners, but give themselves top marks for repairability One year into the EU’s repairability rules for smartphones and tablets, more than 80 percent of devices still … Read more
BOSTON, February 26, 2026 – Worldwide smartphone shipments are forecast to decline 12.9% year-on-year (YoY) in 2026 to 1.12 billion units, according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker. This decline will bring the smartphone market … Read more
How to wire and run an old smartphone without a battery. Intro I have an old Samsung Galaxy S5 that I wanted to use to run my 3D printer. There is a great project called octo4a that runs OctoPrint on … Read more
Subscribe to the Free Future NewsletterFree Future home Who controls what you can do on your mobile phone? What happens when your device can only run what the government decides is OK? We are dangerously close to this kind of … Read more
Infinite Scroll ICE and the Smartphone Panopticon A new wave of digital tools has emerged to help citizens monitor Trump’s crackdown. But internet surveillance can also be used against you. By Kyle Chayka October 29, 2025 Illustration by Ariel Davis … Read more
23 Sep 2025 2 min read Charles Q. Choi is a contributing editor for IEEE Spectrum. Purdue University researcher Young Kim and his team have combined computer vision, color science, and optical spectroscopy to create an algorithm that recovers detailed … Read more
Key takeaways: A quarter of smartphone owners (25%) don’t find AI features helpful, 45% are reluctant to pay a monthly subscription fee for AI capabilities and 34% have privacy concerns. A little over half (52%) of smartphone owners have no … Read more
Today in Tedium: If you’re far from home in need of an internet connection, you most likely either use your phone or hunt down the closest coffee shop. But if you’re fancy, maybe you’ll tether your phone to your laptop, … Read more