Elon Musk wants to bring the Internet to Mars
Truly a man for all seasons, Elon Musk's next big thing is to build an internet for when people start arriving on Mars.
Space Exploration
Jan 20, 2015
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News tagged with optic cable
Cities, states face off on municipal broadband
Wilson, N.C., determined nearly a decade ago that high-speed Internet access would be essential to the community's social and economic health in the 21st century, just as electricity, water and sewers were in the previous ...
Telecom
Aug 19, 2014
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Fiber optic light pipes in the retina do much more than simple image transfer
(Phys.org) —Having the photoreceptors at the back of the retina is not a design constraint, it is a design feature. The idea that the vertebrate eye, like a traditional front-illuminated camera, might have been improved ...
Best of Last Week – Science that stumped Einstein, revising human timeline and a simple way to reduce pancreatic cancers
(Phys.org) —For 112 years, the best minds in science haven't been able to fully understand how superconductors do what they do. Last week, Louise Lerner of Argonne National Laboratory, published an article reminding everyone ...
Group sues UK eavesdropping agency over hacking
A rights group is suing Britain's GCHQ eavesdropping agency over cyberattacks revealed by former intelligence worker Edward Snowden, saying it's the first time the agency has been sued over hacking.
Security
May 13, 2014
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Book pulls appplications from abstract mathematics
Mathematics can explain how light waves propagate in a fiber optic cable or that a linear flow of air over a plane's wings gives passengers a smooth ride, while nonlinear flow causes turbulence.
Mathematics
Jan 22, 2014
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Brazil to build undersea cables to Europe, Angola
Brazil's state-owned telecom provider Telebras said Wednesday it plans to build undersea fiber optic telecommunication cable links with Europe and Angola.
Telecom
Jan 15, 2014
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Brazil orders Google to hand over Street View data
Brazilian judges have given US Internet search giant Google until Saturday to turn over private data collected through its Street View program, press reports said Thursday.
Internet
Nov 7, 2013
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Tiny laser gives big boost to high speed data transmission
(Phys.org) —High-speed communication just got a turbo boost, thanks to a new laser technology developed at the University of Illinois that transmits error-free data over fiber optic networks at a blazing fast 40 gigabits ...
Optics & Photonics
Nov 6, 2013
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Light-activated medical implants: Team develops light-guiding hydrogel for cell-based sensing
(Phys.org) —A combined team of researchers from Harvard Medical School and several research institutions in Korea has developed a light-sensitive hydrogel that can be used as a cell based sensor. In their paper published ...
