Data Transfer Speed Record Broken
A new experiment has achieved a record fibre optic cable capacity of 26.2 terabits per second (Tbps) across more than 6,000 kilometers of a transatlantic fibre optic cable jointly owned by Facebook and Microsoft.
This represents a 20 percent improvement of what the cable's eight optic fibres were originally thought to be capable of achieving, TheVerge reported. A team of researchers from Infinera smashed through efficiency records for data transfer while testing an emerging approach for how the light signals are transmitted - called 16QAM modulation.
The team managed to extend record-setting capacity for a given reach - across the Atlantic Ocean - using the MAREA transatlantic cable, which spans 6,605 km from Bilbao, Spain, to Virginia Beach in the US. Funded in part by Microsoft and Facebook, MAREA currently holds the record for the highest-capacity cable crossing the Atlantic Ocean
FB Working on its Own Cryptocurrency
More than 50 engineers at Facebook are reportedly busy giving shape to the social media giant's own cryptocurrency and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is quite bullish on the project.
Not only Facebook, highly-encrypted mobile communications apps Telegram and Signal are also on the job to roll out new cryptocurrencies over the next year, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
"The most anticipated but secretive project is underway at Facebook. The company is working on a coin that users of WhatsApp, which Facebook owns, could send to friends and family instantly," said the report, citing people familiar with the project. Telegram, with 300 million users, is also working on a digital coin.
Apple Working On AR ( Augmented Reality )
Apple could be planning to develop an Augmented Reality (AR) - based headset that would work alongside an iPhone to enable users experience an environment where computer images are overlaid on the real world
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