Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 31, 2017
Review: Wi-Fi systems for the home just keep getting better
It's interesting to watch when enterprise technology makes its way down to the consumer level.
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Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 2, 2015
Review: Set up the new Amped Wireless router with just one finger
Over the last few years, I've watched my parents move from a Windows PC to a Mac mini to iPads for their Internet access.
Consumer & Gadgets
Feb 4, 2009
Eye on electronics: Making sure you get your money's worth
Buying electronics can be an awfully tough decision, especially in this economy where every dollar counts. With people cutting back on going out for entertainment, what's available around the house - such as the television, ...
Internet
Jan 26, 2015
Cuban youth build secret computer network despite Wi-Fi ban
Cut off from the Internet, young Cubans have quietly linked thousands of computers into a hidden network that stretches miles across Havana, letting them chat with friends, play games and download hit movies in a mini-replica ...
Telecom
Mar 7, 2012
World's first field trial of 10Gbit/s-100km class high speed and wide area optical access
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation has succeeded in the field trial of an optical amplification technology that realizes 10Gbit/s-100km class high speed and wide area optical access networks.
Computer Sciences
Dec 16, 2016
Syncing data center computers at the speed of light
When several computers need to work together, as when calculating in parallel on several parts of a single large problem or managing a large database, they need to keep in step. These situations are particularly common in ...
Robotics
Jan 14, 2015
Six-legged 'snake monster' is first of new breed of reconfigurable modular robots (w/ Video)
(Phys.org)—Carnegie Mellon University's latest robot is called Snake Monster, however, with six legs, it looks more like an insect than a snake. But it really doesn't matter what you call it, says its inventor, Howie Choset—the ...
Telecom
Apr 30, 2012
A 100-gigbit highway for science
Climate researchers are producing some of the fastest growing datasets in science. Five years ago, the amount of information generated for the Nobel Prize-winning United Nations International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ...
Computer Sciences
Dec 13, 2006
Physicists Set New Record for Network Data Transfer
An international team of physicists, computer scientists, and network engineers led by the California Institute of Technology, CERN, and the University of Michigan and partners at the University of Florida and Vanderbilt, ...
Computer Sciences
Aug 15, 2011
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 architecture ...
