NASA streams 4K video from aircraft to space (and back) at blistering speeds using laser tech
900 Mbps is faster than what the average US household enjoys
Which country has the highest percentage of their population online?
Hint: there is one country that has a 99.9% Internet penetration.
Google achieves 50 Gbps fiber speeds on a live network
The search giant argues you'll need these blistering speeds sooner or later
What just happened? In a recent field test conducted jointly with Nokia, Google's experimental fiber broadband arm GFiber Labs achieved a mind-boggling 41.89 gigabits per second download speed on a live Google Fiber network in Kansas City.
TP-Link launches $600 Archer GE800, its first Wi-Fi 7 gaming router
The Wi-Fi 7 router to go for if visible antennas are not your thing
Blistering 402 Tb/s fiber optic speeds achieved by unlocking unused wavelengths
Amid 6G promises, scientists find a way to wring incredible speeds out of boring old fiber
What just happened? Scientists in Japan have just blown the doors off what we thought was possible with conventional fiber optic cables. A team led by the country's National Institute of Information and Communications Technology has set a new world record by transmitting data at a blistering 402 terabits per second through an existing fiber optic line. That's fast enough to download over 50,000 HD movies in a single second.
Critical vulnerability in file transfer software Moveit could result in a new security disaster
The flaw can be easily abused, and mass exploitation is extremely likely
T-Mobile's Home Internet Backup keeps ISP customers connected during outages
An alternative for your phone's hotspot during service blips
FCC ends high-speed internet subsidies as funds expire
Millions of low-income Americans could see rising internet costs
Vanishing act: A quarter of all web pages that existed between 2013 and 2023 are gone
Father Time is undefeated
FCC reinstates Net Neutrality in the US to ensure a level playing field for all internet users
Net neutrality was repealed in 2017
Google to spend $1 billion to lay two new cables on the Pacific seabed
Improving connectivity and bringing new business opportunities to the Pacific region
Digital exodus: Significant dip in Internet traffic observed during eclipse
Some areas saw Internet activity dip by 60 percent
Fiber optic researchers showcase speeds 4.5 million times faster than average home broadband
The breakthrough could provide an affordable path to upgrade existing fiber networks
The big picture: The ability to move massive amounts of data as quickly as possible continues to become more critical to our everyday lives. Earlier this month, researchers published the results of an experiment that could help increase transmission speeds exponentially using existing fiber optic infrastructure.
SpaceX launches first satellites with Direct to Cell capabilities
SpaceX partnered with T-Mobile in the US
Internet usage study shows we spent over 1.3 trillion hours online in 2023
This year, Taylor Swift streamed 69.4 million songs per minute, and ChatGPT answered 3.6 billion queries
A new internet standard called L4S aims to lower latency, bring more speed to the web
Low latency, low loss, and scalable throughput
World record set for fiber optic speed transfer at 22.9 petabits per second
A major step toward future ultra-large-capacity optical communication networks
Malicious bots make up nearly three-quarters of Internet traffic
Bad bots dominate Internet traffic
Asia regional address registry APNIC calls for global response to ISP failures
Internet companies should be held accountable for their eventual mistakes
China claims to have launched world's first 1.2 terabit-per-second internet backbone
The network spans 1,860 miles
Telecom equipment makers are having a bad month, and a bad decade
Is telecom merely resting?
Google Fiber begins trialing 20 Gig residential internet with Wi-Fi 7 routers
Custom routers use Nokia's 20G technology
The FCC wants to know why data caps are still a thing in 2023
The Commission is also requesting stories and information from impacted consumers
The Dark Web: Exploring the Hidden Internet
There are few things as infamous as The Dark Web in the world of technology, but what is it, and why does it have such a bad reputation?
