OTA Power? Bring It On!

Over the holidays terminal year, I visited family in Pittsburgh. I'grand fortunate, considering I can practice only about every function of my job remotely. Then I brought along my piece of work laptop—a MacBook Pro—to work on a few projects while I was there and stay a chip longer with my siblings.

Well, mayhap I'm not that fortunate. I forgot to pack my charging cablevision and power adaptor. No one at home had a MacBook, so borrowing was not possible . This meant I had to beg my brother-in-police force to bulldoze to an Apple tree Store to buy a new charger and cable for me—"yes, I need to charge today!"—and they aren't cheap.

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That's a long way of getting to my signal: The need to plug devices into outlets to charge them is a purple pain. (And current wireless inductive charging isn't much of an improvement, specially for travelers.) I know, this is a start-world problem; but it's one we may be on the route to overcoming.

At Mobile World Congress 2022, PCMag mobile analyst Ajay Kumar saw some impressive demos from a couple companies working on making wireless power a reality—enough to make him want to investigate. For our cover story, he spoke with experts from all over the tech industry to find out how close we might really be to a wire-complimentary earth.

As well in our June issue, you'll find software engineer Ben Dickson's story on the racism and sexism that'due south been discovered in artificial intelligence algorithms. Wait, you might say: Wouldn't AI be inherently neutral and unbiased? Well, no, sadly—considering it learns everything it knows from humans.

AI bias can have a negative touch on on everything from job recruitment to healthcare and law enforcement. Read "AI Has a Bias Trouble, and It's Our Mistake" to discover out how it happens and what we can practice well-nigh it.

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