We all know that USB 3.0 is fast. It’s 5 Gbits/s (640 Mbytes/s) — over ten times as fast as the 2.0 maximum. Accounting for the encoding overhead, the raw data throughput is around 4 Gbit/s. But, USB ...

Once a month or so, I have the privilege of sitting down with Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams to record the Hackaday Podcast. It’s a lot of fun spending a couple of hours geeking out together, and we ...

A new type of optical fiber filled with nothing but thin air has been found to be particularly effective for carrying out quantum key distribution (QKD), a security protocol that is in principle ...

The World Wide Web might sound metaphorical, but it’s actually grounded in a physical web of translucent glass filaments crisscrossing the globe. These fiber-optic cables transmit internet data ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Fiber Optical Cable Market Opportunities and Strategies to 2033" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The global fiber optical cable market reached ...

Laced across the cold depths of the world's oceans is a network of multimillion-dollar cables, which have become the vital connections of our online lives. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 ...