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Global consumer Wi-Fi router shipments declined by 6% year-over-year in Q1 2026, signaling a downturn in the market following the post-pandemic surge. While demand surged during the height of remote work in 2020 and 2021, the market has since cooled significantly, with overall shipments down nearly

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have demonstrated that ordinary Wi-Fi routers can be used to identify individuals with 99.5% accuracy by leveraging beamforming feedback information (BFI), a feature introduced in Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac). Unlike previous methods relyin