By using motion data from cell phones' built-in sensors, new communications protocols improve wireless connections for people on the go. For most of the 20th century, the paradigm of wireless communication was a radio station with a single high-power transmitter. As long as you were within 20 miles or so of the transmitter, you could pick up the station. With the advent of cell phones, however, an
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