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Researchers develop a stable quantum encryption system that worked across 120 kilometers of optical fiber — a major step toward unhackable communication

Between Gaithersburg and College Park, Maryland, a single strand of fiber optic cable hangs from utility poles along a route ...
InfoWorld

Intel sees Light Peak optical cables as successor to USB

USB is currently widely used to link between devices, but Intel's optical technology could reduce the need for other cables Intel sees its Light Peak technology for linking devices by optical cable as ...
Science News

Here’s how to make a fiber-optic cable out of air using a laser

Tubular laser beams can create what amount to fiber-optic cables made of thin air, researchers report in a study to appear in Physical Review X. Laser-heated air can efficiently transmit light signals ...
Crypto Briefing

Samanth Subramanian: Subsea cables are critical yet vulnerable infrastructures, fiber optics revolutionize data transmission, and privatization reshapes telecom funding | …

Samanth Subramanian is a contributing writer for the Guardian Long Read. He is the author of A Dominant Character: The ...
The Conversation

Seismology at light speed: how fibre‑optic telecommunications cables deliver a close‑up view of NZ’s Alpine Fault

Aotearoa New Zealand experiences frequent earthquakes, including destructive ones such as those that struck Christchurch in 2010 and 2011, and near Kaikōura in 2018. In the South Island, the largest ...