fiber optics
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Scientists Made Working Fibre Optic Cables Out Of Wood
Given how quickly technology advances and becomes outdated, there’s a good reason to develop electronics from materials that will break down and biodegrade when discarded, instead of filling up landfills for centuries. So researchers in Finland found a way to make functional fibre optics from wood-based fibres, that, when disposed of, will break down all…
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Engineers Just Broke The Capacity Limit For Fibre Optic Transmission
So, that Internet apocalypse that’s going to befall us when the our fibre optic cables max out? Maybe not so much. On Thursday, engineers reported in Science that they’d broken the “capacity limit” for fibre optic transmission, opening the door to future networks that carry more data further at lower costs.
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The Promising (But Problematic) Future Of Ultra-Fast Internet
While you weren’t looking, the internet got super fast. I’m not talking Google Fiber fast. I’m talking Star Trek fast. Today, it’s not just possible to download a movie in seconds. New technology makes it easy to download dozens of movies in fractions of a second. Fast is almost too slow a word to describe…
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Ever Wonder How Cable TV Travels From Space To Your House?
You know that cable channels make content and beam it to a satellite, but what happens then? This video is a quick look behind the curtain with one of Time Warner’s chief engineers. Who knew porn had to go through all that? [TWCable Untangled]