Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to CuriousKidsUS@theconversation.com. What is Bluetooth? – Henry, age 13, Somerville, ...

Wireless communication in industry is, of course, nothing new. Most applications of industrial wireless to date have involved either Wi-Fi or NFC (near field communication). But there’s growing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alex Vakulov is a cybersecurity expert focused on consumer security. Bluetooth technology has become an essential part of our ...

Bluetooth technology has been around for over three decades, and it's one of those modern conveniences we rarely talk about. It makes our lives much easier by allowing fast, wireless synchronization ...

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG) has just released version 6.0 of the Bluetooth standard, and with it, come some upgrades since the last major version -- Bluetooth 5.0 -- launched ...

Update 3/9/25: After receiving concerns about the use of the term 'backdoor' to refer to these undocumented commands, we have updated our title and story. Our original story can be found here. The ...

Windows is notorious for having Bluetooth connection issues, but you can do something about them.

Security researcher Marc Newlin shared how he discovered the Bluetooth bug that leaves keyboards vulnerable to injection attacks that can allow attackers to take over user devices. Over the past six ...