Collaborate Disseminate
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is, once again, having trouble transmitting any scientific or systems data back to Earth. “The 46-year-old spacecraft is capable of receiving commands, but a problem seems to have arisen with the probe’s computers,” reports … Continue reading NASA’s Voyager 1 Probe In Interstellar Space Can’t Phone Home
Amazon, which launched its first internet satellites in October, says it will use space lasers to ensure reliable broadband coverage even in the middle of the ocean. From a report: The technology will enable a satellite to deliver data to a cruise ship… Continue reading Amazon’s Internet Satellites Will Use Space Lasers To Transmit Data
If movies are anything to go by, meeting aliens rarely goes well for humanity. To stop us making a faux pas of cosmic proportions, scientists have been practicing by trying to chat to whales in their own language – and judging by the early results, we … Continue reading Scientists practice communicating with aliens by chatting to whales
There may be currently 3,782 emojis in the beloved Unicode library, yet a team of biologists has found its representation of the tree of life is significantly substandard.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: Biodiversity, Animals, Animal sci… Continue reading Fancy a tardigrade emoji? Biologists call for this and more to be added
Networks spent years telling us that 5G would change everything. But the flashiest use cases are nowhere to be found — and the race to deploy the tech was costly in more ways than one. From a report: At CES in 2021, 5G was just about everywhere you lo… Continue reading The Race To 5G is Over – Now It’s Time To Pay the Bill
The US broadband industry is protesting a Federal Communications Commission plan to measure the affordability of Internet service. From a report: The FCC has been evaluating US-wide broadband deployment progress on a near-annual basis for almost three … Continue reading Cable Lobby To FCC: Please Don’t Look Too Closely at the Prices We Charge
Everybody feels like they could use a faster internet connection, and now engineers in Japan have shattered the record for data transmission. The team managed to transmit more than 20 times the global internet traffic per second through a single optical fiber.
Category: Telecommunications, Technology
Tags: Data, Data Transfer, Transmission, World’s Fastest, Communications, Fiber Optic, Optics
Continue reading Record-breaking fiber transmits 20x global internet traffic per second
From ‘bae’ to ‘selfie’, and even ‘google’, there’s no shortage of words that have transcended their specific origin stories to achieve widespread use in the English language. And one of the most pervasive sources has been the Star Wars universe, even t… Continue reading Lightsaber lexicon: The monumental impact Star Wars has had on language
Implants and tiny machines could eventually be working inside our bodies to help treat disease or monitor activity, but letting them communicate is tricky. Now scientists at EPFL have developed a system whereby devices can communicate by releasing mole… Continue reading Medical nanobots could communicate by releasing molecules into bloodstream
“At least 44,500 space objects now circle Earth,” reports the New York Times magazine, “including 9,000 active satellites and 19,000 significant pieces of debris.”
The article notes a threat assessment from U.S. Space Force Chief Master Sergeant Ron … Continue reading US Space Force Monitors Satellites in the ‘Robotic Battlefield’ of Space