Tag: TRANSMISSION

Share Part of being a good user and consumer is understanding how technology works, why we use it the way we do, and what the barrage of acronyms and PR jargon means. We're here to help you make sense of it all and give you a better appreciation for how that pile of transistors, pixels, and antennas works together to deliver the conveniences of the modern world to your living room or office. ...

Every so often, we get wind of some new "breakthrough" from a few guys / gals in a lab that promises to simply revolutionize the Web. A team from the University of Sydney is the latest bunch to do so, claiming that a piece of scratched glass (or a Photonic Integrated Circuit, if we're being proper) could enable Internet speeds 60 times faster than "current Australian networks." Essentially, the ...