News tagged with transmission control protocol
Google's SPDY will speed up downloads
(PhysOrg.com) -- As part of its effort to speed up the Web, Google is experimenting with SPDY, a new application layer protocol, that it hopes will speed up the conversation between browsers and Web servers ...
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Fast, low-power, all-optical switch
An optical switch developed at the Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) spurs the prospective integration of photonics and electronics. What, isn't electronics good enough? Well, nothing travels faster than light, ...
May 03, 2012 |
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The shape of things, illuminated: Metamaterials, surface topology and light-matter interactions
(Phys.org) -- Finding new connections between different disciplines leads to new – and sometimes useful – ideas. That’s exactly what happened when scientists in the Department of Physics, Queens College, ...
Noxious nanotech: Water-borne nanomaterials promote multidrug-resistance gene transfer
(PhysOrg.com) -- The arms race between effective antibiotic prophylaxis and closely related strains or species of bacteria is continually escalating. Bacteria can quickly develop genetic resistance to a range ...
Internet service prevents cable tangle in presentations at conferences
To connect a laptop to an additional monitor, projector or even to a monitor wall, a special cable was required, until now. Researchers of the Saarland University's Intel Visual Computing Institute overcome ...
Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation
Feb 23, 2012 |
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EU prizewinning researchers decongest the internet
The Internet has become part of our everyday lives, in ways we would never have imagined 30 years ago, but how often do we pause and think about the how and why of getting online? A team of EU-funded Spanish researchers are ...
Feb 02, 2012 |
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Cooperative communications when collaborators are not synchronized
A promising way to improve future wireless communication speed is to have users and/or base stations help each other. This is called cooperative communications. One of the practical difficulties in cooperative ...
Oct 24, 2011 |
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Inside story: Chemical reactivity on the inner surface of single-walled carbon nanotubes
(PhysOrg.com) -- Historically, the interior surface of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) has not been considered to be chemically reactive. Recently, however, researchers at the University of Nottingham School of Chemistry in the UK and the Ulm Un ...
How the Internet architecture got its hourglass shape and what that means for the future
In the natural world, species that share the same ecosystem often compete for resources, resulting in the extinction of weaker competitors. A new computer model that describes the evolution of the Internet's ...
Technology / Computer Sciences
Aug 15, 2011 |
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First man in space: A 50-year-old feat remembered
(AP) -- It was the Soviet Union's own giant leap for mankind, one that would spur a humiliated America to race for the moon. It happened 50 years ago this Tuesday, when an air force pilot named Yuri Gagarin ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 10, 2011 |
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New architecture for optical fiber networks proposed
The household demand for increased internet bandwidth has grown tremendously because of the popularity of data-intensive internet activities such as movie streaming. Conventional copper telephone lines struggle ...
Feb 24, 2011 |
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