5G, cellular’s next step, brings new positioning capabilities

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The cellular 5G standard has been designed to target latencies under one millisecond, data rates of up to ten gigabits per second, extremely high network reliability, and better accuracy in positioning. With location awareness becoming an essential feature of many new markets, positioning is consequently considered as an integral part of the system design of upcoming 5G mobile networks.

Its feet firmly planted in both the present and the future, the cellular industry is currently in the midst of implementation of Long Term Evolution (LTE)-Advanced,
an evolution of what might be called plain old LTE, and a “true 4G” mobile broadband. Simultaneously, the industry is preparing the next step, as “there is a vastly increased need for a new mobile communications system with even further enhanced capabilities, namely a fifth generation (5G) system.” 5G will process communication 10 times faster than 4G, according to experts. That’s enough to download a 3D movie in 30 seconds. It would take six minutes on 4G.

 

Read More from GPS World Magazine Here

Argument analysis: What makes wiretap orders “insufficient”?

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The oral argument in Dahda v. United States started off on a bad note for Los Rovell Dahda, who was represented by Kannon Shanmugam. Shanmugam was asking the court to find that a wiretap order was “insufficient on its face,” and therefore triggered Title III of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968’s statutory exclusionary rule, because it authorized surveillance outside the issuing court’s territorial jurisdiction. Asking the first question, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg seemed to embrace one of the government’s central arguments. Yes, the district court “authorized more” than legally allowed by approving surveillance outside the court’s territorial jurisdiction, “but that more was never introduced” in Dadha’s trial. So, no harm, no foul. Later, Ginsburg returned to the same theme, noting that, “as applied, the orders did not violate the statute,” and then quickly adding that a ruling on that basis “seems to make good sense.”

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Spielbauer capital murder trial: Jurors watch video interview, hear cellphone testimony

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The prosecution continued its case Thursday in the capital murder trial of Jeremy “J.D.” Spielbauer, who is accused of killing his 32-year-old ex-wife in 2014. Jurors were shown video of an interview Spielbauer, 34, gave to Randall County Sheriff’s Office investigators on April 9, 2014 — one day after the body of Robin Spielbauer was found.

In the taped interview at the sheriff’s office, Sgt. Allan Mongold, the lead investigator into Robin’s murder, presents Spielbauer with cellphone records showing he had arranged a meeting with Robin on the night she was killed.

“Text messages indicated very strongly that there was a planned meeting that night between the two of them,” Mongold testified in 251st District Court on Thursday.

Read More from Amarillo Globe-News Here

Judge excludes some evidence taken from Tony Cercy’s phone but allows other information

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A judge set to preside over the trial of a prominent Casper businessman accused of sexual assault decided Wednesday to exclude some pieces of potential evidence taken from the man’s phone, saying law enforcement did not have probable cause to seize a voicemail left by the defendant’s wife.

Judge Daniel Forgey also disallowed evidence that would show the camera on Tony Cercy’s phone was triggered in the early morning hours of June 25, when he is alleged to have assaulted a woman on a couch in his Alcova house. An entirely black image is all that was captured by the camera.

Read More from the Casper Star Tribune Here

Teen recruited for scheme leading to Upatoi triple homicide stayed with girlfriend instead

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Marcus Dermer’s girlfriend saved his future.

Had he not spent the evening with her and her family on Jan. 3, 2016, he might have gone along with Jervarceay Tapley’s plan to “do a lick” or commit a crime on Bentley Drive, just like his friends Rufus Burks and Raheam Gibson.

Had he gone with them, Dermer also would be facing life in prison for the brutal slayings of Gloria Short, 54; her son Caleb Short, 17; and granddaughter Gianna Lindsey, 10.

Read More from Columbus Ledger-Enquirer Here