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Experts with the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) say that they want to create a new type of telescope technology, one that would enable them to complete Phoenix. The latter is a project that seeks to reclaim and reuse old satellite parts for creating new spacecraft.
These new vehicles would b... |
21 January 2012
05:27 GMT |
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A team of physicists at the US National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) announces the development of a new sensor that is capable of measuring the optical power passing through a fiber optics cable with unprecedented levels of accuracy.
The advanced radiometer, whose performances are mostly a direct r... |
21 December 2011
05:00 GMT |
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Everyone takes it for a given that internet connections will get faster. Granted, ISPs in many countries are not exactly rushing to upgrade speeds, but they fall in line eventually.The internet is not limited only by the last mile connections though, the backbone has to grow as well. Which is why experiments like the... |
9 November 2011
11:10 GMT |
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The internet has grown exponentially since it was invented. In the last decade, the volume of traffic has grown several times over. Yet, the last transatlantic telecommunications cable was laid out more than a decade ago.
Now, a submarine communication cable company is planning to build a new one, to start carryin... |
12 September 2011
07:50 GMT |
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Finding the best and fastest fiber optic cable route is a process that, at times, can take days, but a team of researchers from the North Carolina State University came up with a way to speed things up by 10,000 times.Phone calls, website visits and any other sort of online access relies on data being sent in the fo... |
29 June 2011
09:14 GMT |
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Modern technology is finally catching up with firearms, thanks to an innovative, laser-assisted sensor for gun sights. The new device helps marksmen and snipers achieve tremendously higher precision levels when executing difficult shots. The role of the new sensor is to correct even the smallest barrel disruptions au... |
30 April 2011
06:36 GMT |
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Google's quest for a suitable city to build its super high-speed fiber network is over. The company chose Kansas City, Kansas as the place where it's going to deploy its experimental internet connection. It took more than a year to select a site, but Google has already started working on the planning stages... |
31 March 2011
02:10 GMT |
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KVM extenders have managed to prove their worth time and time again, given the fact that they enable users to control multiple computers from a distance, and that's pretty much the case as well with the latest such product from Matrox, the Extio F2208.[ADMRK=1]So, what we're talking about here is a KVM exte... |
1 March 2011
05:20 GMT |
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Cuba is about to get much faster internet connections thanks to a fiber-optic cable, some 1,000 miles long, from Venezuela to the communist country. The project is funded by a group tied to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and will provide the only means of communication with the outside world for Cuba apart from the... |
10 February 2011
10:00 GMT |
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Google unveiled plans to bring fiber internet connections to several towns in the US to serve as much as 500,000 Americans. The company is still reviewing the 1,100 responses it got from communities and is not ready to name the towns where it will start building the high-speed internet infrastructure. It is moving fo... |
14 July 2010
04:25 GMT |
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On November 2, 2009, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched two new spacecraft in Earth's orbit, aboard a Russian-built Rockot delivery system. The largest payload was the large Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite, which was accompanied by the small demonstrations spacecraft Proba-2. Both probes ... |
29 April 2010
08:31 GMT |
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Google’s plans to offer fiber-to-home Internet connections to as much as 500,000 people probably has ISPs in the US on edge, but the company is trying to show them that it is not the enemy. In fact, it’s welcoming anyone to use the infrastructure once it is deployed and offer Internet services on Google&r... |
23 April 2010
04:32 GMT |
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When it comes to Internet connections, the future is bright. As in, it’s made of light, fiber optics, to be exact. But fiber optics is still pretty expensive and if there’s one thing that telecommunications companies hate, it is spending any of their hard earned money. Why fix it if it’s not broken ... |
22 April 2010
11:39 GMT |
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The first stage of Google's ultra high-speed broadband roll out plan is over with the application period for the 1 Gbps fiber-to-home infrastructure project now closed. The company has tallied the final results and the response from communities across the US was very positive, as expected. 1,100 cities and towns... |
27 March 2010
06:14 GMT |
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Google announced last month that it wanted to deploy 1 Ggps fiber-to-home connections to up to 500,000 Americans. It asked local authorities interested in getting Google to bring the super-fast broadband connections to their town to submit applications for consideration. Plenty of towns got excited at the prospect, s... |
26 March 2010
08:16 GMT |
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Scientists at the Aston University, in the United Kingdom, can boast, at this point, having control over the longest fiber laser in the world. Their physics device was created from, and now occupies more than 270 kilometers (168 miles) of optical fiber cable. The science group at the university believes that the new ... |
15 December 2009
11:02 GMT |
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At this point, optical fiber is able to focus beams of light into extremely narrow space. AS light travels through the wire, the latter gets narrower and narrower, until it finally reaches a thickness of only a few hundred nanometers. From that moment on – depending on the wavelength of the light itself –... |
13 November 2009
21:31 GMT |
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Scientists at the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have recently developed a new type of nanostructures that is extremely efficient in capturing, filtering and steering light at the nanoscale. The group, based at the Berkeley Lab Molecular Foundry, says that th... |
13 November 2009
06:42 GMT |
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Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) announce the completion of a new type of solar cells, one that may not need to be located on traditional surfaces, such as rooftops. The innovation makes use of nanostructures grown directly on optical fibers, and coated with light-sensitive dyes. This ... |
3 November 2009
06:10 GMT |
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After the recent announcement that the Nobel Prize for Medicine has gone to telomerase research, the Swedish Academy of Sciences has now announced its decision to award the Nobel Prize in Physics to three researchers who have dedicated their lives to learning how to harness the power of light for increasing humankind... |
6 October 2009
09:11 GMT |
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Most of the computers connected to the Internet today still use standard copper cables for transmitting information, which is carried aboard electrons. The core of the World Wide Web is, however, made up of fiber optic cables, which rely on data being sent via photons. The latter particles are far more “qualifi... |
24 September 2009
04:06 GMT |
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Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers have recently announced that they have devised a way of using telecommunications-grade fiber optic cables to detect war-time underground tunnels, like those used by Hamas in the Gaza strip to smuggle in weapons across the Israeli border. Their finds are to be presen... |
13 January 2009
04:36 GMT |
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Basically, any liquid column should be able to act as a guide for light, thus behaving similarly to optical fibers. The problem with these liquid fiber optics is that they become unstable after reaching a physical limitation known as the Rayleigh-Plateau instability which states that in free-fall conditions the lengt... |
30 July 2008
10:48 GMT |
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Although the Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface is currently the most popular connectivity option in most desktop and portable computing systems, but, nevertheless, it does have its shortcomings, the most important such issue being related to the the distance limitation of the USB cables. And in order to solve this... |
18 October 2007
07:51 GMT |
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One of the good things about the 21st century is that we have Internet access, I mean, not all the people in the world have Internet access, that's why AMD has the 50x15 program up and running but there still a fair amount of people that do have Internet access and it has become a part of our, let' say cult... |
19 April 2007
10:43 GMT |
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