Future of the Internet is Safe: Engineers Break the Capacity Limit for Fiber Optic Transmissions
As the sheer volume of data transmitted over the web continues to grow by leaps and bounds, there has been a lot of speculation regarding whether or not the fiber optic cables which form the underlying foundation of the internet will eventually max out.
Well not to fear. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego recently published a report in the journal Science detailing how they were able to increase the maximum power under which fiber optic signals can be transmitted and accurately decoded. In turn, optic signals can now travel for longer distances without seeing a degradation in quality.
“This advance,” the UC San Diego News Center writes, “has the potential to increase the data transmission rates for the fiber optic cables that serve as the backbone of the internet, cable, wireless and landline networks.”
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Facebook is More of a Threat to YouTube Than Ever Before
There’s no disputing that YouTube remains the king of online video, but the Google-owned property is starting to see some heavy competition from an unusual place: Facebook.
Whereas most videos shared on Facebook used to come in the form of embedded YouTube videos, most videos on the site today are now uploaded to the social network via Facebook’s video uploader. More to the point, 70% of all new videos posted to Facebook are being uploaded directly. Back in February of 2014, this figure was just 25%.
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List of 30 Most Edited Wikipedia Pages Will Surprise You
Earlier this week, a Reddit user named Ramiro Gomez put together the following chart detailing the top 30 most edited English Wikipedia articles of all time. In putting the chart together, Gomez, a software developer who hails from Berlin, queried which articles had seen the most revisions going all the way back to January of 2001 when Wikipedia first launched.
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Miracle Weight Loss Technique? Freeze Your Fat and Poop It Out
Weight loss is an important yet delicate matter to people looking to shed some of that extra weight. There are many “miracle” solutions that don’t exactly work, and there are plenty methods to do it properly. Watching what you eat and exercising properly will certainly help, though it may take discipline and time to see results. However, people who want instant results should know there’s a new medical procedure that lets doctors eliminate some of your fat by freezing it.
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The Google Glass Epic Fail: What Happened?
Here we are in the summer of 2015 and hardly a peep about a device that the media and public obsessed about for two years. So, what happened to Google Glass and where’s it going?
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Save a Fortune By Buying One of These New Phones Instead of a Galaxy S6 or iPhone
AT&T’s lineup of affordable smartphones expanded on Friday with the unveiling of the ZTE Maven. This $59.99 device comes equipped with 4G LTE wireless service, Android 5.1 and, best of all, doesn’t require an annual commitment. You’ll be hard-pressed to find a cheaper phone with better specs from any of the major service providers.
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One of the Most Exciting New iPhone 6s Features Was Just Confirmed By Bloomberg
Apple’s next-gen iPhone has already entered production and, as previously rumored, will sport the same Force Touch functionality Apple originally introduced with the Apple Watch. The news comes courtesy of Bloomberg, which also adds that Apple’s iPhone 6s models will come in the same 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch form factors as the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus.
With production already underway, the report adds that volume production is slated to begin sometime next month. More than likely, Apple’s upcoming iPhone models will hit store shelves sometime in late September, with Friday, September 25 being an alleged release date we’ve seen floating around.
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VIDEOS: All The Action At The 41st Annual Mid-America Ford & Shelby Nationals
Check out the photos of all the Fords we found having fun at the Nats, and make sure to see the video interviews we did with the folks from Ford and Shelby
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Apple Watch Competition: Android Wear Still Kicking
You might be forgiven for thinking that the Apple Watch is the only smartwatch worth buying. But watches running Android Wear are alive, kicking, and getting better.
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Black Ops 3, Halo 5 and Star Fox Zero: The Best Gameplay Videos from E3 2015
Every week, a landslide of video game trailers hit the Internet, but this week we’re doing something a little different. In the post-E3 world, gameplay videos have continued to leak out from every corner of the Internet. We shared the trailers from each press conference during the week of E3 2015, but today we’ve decided to collect the ten best gameplay videos from the entire show.
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