bandwidth
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Intel Leak Shows Thunderbolt Speeds Could Double Sometime Soon
When Intel released Thunderbolt 4 last year as a successor to Thunderbolt 3, many people were confused and disappointed to realise that the update offered the same 40Gbps bandwidth as its predecessor. Now, Intel is stepping up with the Thunderbolt 5, a photo prematurely tweeted out by a company executive shows, and Mac users may…
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Facebook And Google Are Buying Up The Cables That Carry The Internet
It can get a little bit annoying when people ramble on about how Facebook and Google are taking over the world. They’re just websites! But when those websites start to buy up other things, say, the very cables that connect the people of the world — well that’s actually pretty alarming.
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42GB Per Second!? Researchers Bust Not One, But Two Data Transfer Speed Records
At this year’s SuperComputing (SC) conference, held in Salt Lake City, Caltech physicists pushed a staggering 339Gb/s of data between the conference, British Columbia’s University of Victoria Computing Center and the University of Michigan. They also squeezed 187Gb/s out of a two-way connection between the same locations. These remarkable speeds both set new data transfer…
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Would Siri Usage Increase Your Phone Bill?
Siri–the equally impressive and gimmicky iPhone 4S’ smart assistant–connects to Apple’s servers every time you ask for something or dictate a message. It sends your query and analyses it, returning you whatever it thinks is the correct answer or action.