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Intel achieves world record for on-die silicon-based fiber optics

Intel announced on Sunday that their Silicon Phonotics lab has achieved the fastest ever recorded transmission for silicon-only-based on-die photonic transmissions. These are basically on-chip fiber...

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Fiber optic bed cover lights up your bedroom

Here is one way to add a little futuristic style to your lackluster bedroom–introduce a little fiber optic lighting technology to jazz up your bed. It’s an electric blanket of sorts, but instead…

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Norwegian ISP says: “Put your back into it. Shovel and save $400!”

A Norwegian ISP named Lyse has found an innovative way to drum up new customers. Their growth-based business model includes saving you the consumer $400 if you dig your own trench from street…

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MIT creates camera out of cloth

The ultimate spy camera would allow someone to walk into a room recording everything they see and no one would ever know a camera was present on their body, not even after a…

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Commercial espresso machine gets carbon fiber housing upgrade

Owning a coffee shop, one would assume that the pride and joy, not to mention the centerpiece of your establishment would be the espresso machine. Not only does this steam powered device serve…

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Bored hunters force Google to lay fiber underground in Oregon

The Dalles, Oregon If you ask people what Google’s greatest threats are, the the common answers would probably include Microsoft, Apple, and the rising cost of energy. What you wouldn’t expect to hear…

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1Gbps Internet coming to 700 homes in California for $70 a month

At one time, a 1Gbps broadband connection to the Internet seemed like a pipe dream. That was until we reported in April 2010 that an ISP based in Hong Kong planned to offer it…

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Research team create transistors using cotton fibers

The idea of integrating electronics into the clothes we wear isn’t a new one. The problem so far has been figuring out how to add our typically rigid components to a flexible piece…

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Google fiber project in Kansas City, Kansas delayed by bureaucracy

Google’s project to install a fiber network capable of delivering 1Gbps data rates to homes and business in Kansas City, Kansas (KCK) has been stalled due to bureaucratic red-tape issues that should have…

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UK to get 300Mbps broadband courtesy of BT

According to the UK’s broadcasting regulatory authority Ofcom, the average Internet connection speed to a home in the UK is around 7.6Mbps. If that was a minimum, it would be acceptible, but an…

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Microsoft’s best employee perk? Insane internet speeds

Microsoft takes a lot of heat these days for being behind the times and caught up in bureaucracy. But as one Reddit post put it, working for Microsoft has its advantages. The post…

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Verizon offers up insanely fast FiOS Quantum: 300Mbps down at $210/month

Verizon’s fiber-optic communications service, FiOS, has been available for a few years now and, if you haven’t been using it, it’s been fantastic. Since it’s been released, FiOS has gone from fast to…

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Google Fiber launches in Kansas City

The two-year wait for gigabit internet speeds in Kansas City is now officially over, as Google today finally unveiled its full Google Fiber plan and its upcoming deployment in Kansas City, Kansas and…

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Up close with the Google Fiber hardware in Kansas City

This past weekend I had the good fortune to be able to go and check out the brand new Google Fiberspace facility in Kansas City. Being a local made it easy for me…

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AT&T waits until Google announces Fiber to reveal competing service

Google’s Fiber initiative is making waves in Austin, TX. This time it didn’t take long for local competition to respond, however, as hours after the announcement AT&T revealed a plan to deliver their…

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Japanese ISP leaves Google Fiber in the dust with 2Gbps downloads

While the United States drools over Google Fiber‘s $70 per month residential internet speeds of 700Mbps up and down as it slowly rolls out to certain parts of the country, a Japanese ISP…

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California man finds Verizon’s unlimited FiOS is capped at 77TB

It wasn’t too long ago that bandwidth caps were a complete non-issue in most US cities. Connections simply weren’t fast enough for even power users to reach the cutoffs. That has changed with…

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Verizon sends angry letters to FiOS users sucking down over 10TB per month

Verizon’s FiOS internet service is, for all intents and purposes, uncapped. The ISP sells FiOS as clearly superior to other services, and part of the pitch is unlimited bandwidth. Some customers who...

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NASA brings broadband to the moon

Before the test, NASA's record speed for transmission from orbit was on the order of 10 kilobytes per second; this week's test saw that speed increase to over 75 megabytes per second.

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Google is developing 10Gbps fiber internet

Google’s experimental 1Gbps fiber internet service that has cropped up in a handful of towns across the US might be only the first step. The search giant is working on an even faster […]

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