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One small internet service provider is giving Google Fiber a run for its money, but offering connections with ten times as much speed. US Internet, based in the Minneapolis suburb of Minnetonka, announced this week that it has begun rolling out 10 gigabit per second internet access.

Have you ever wondered what that USB port on your Wi-Fi router is for? Most modern routers have at least one or maybe two, and today we'll take a look at how Windows users can set it up with a hard or flash drive to share content across a local network.

Researchers at Aalborg University, MIT and Caltech have developed a new technique that makes the nodes of a network much smarter and adaptable, leading to internet data speeds that could be as much as 10 times faster, making communication much more secure and surveillance-proof in the process.

This year, high tech meets the bucolic at the Glastonbury Festival as visitors are greeted by a herd of life-sized, glass-fiber cows that double as free Wi-Fi hotspots to keep festival-goers connected.

Microsoft recently launched the Remote Desktop app for Windows Phone 8.1. It's free and allows you to connect your phone to a remote PC over a local network or from the internet. Here's a look at how to set up your computer to receive remote connections, and how to use it on your phone.

The explosion in mobile data usage has put a strain on mobile networks, slowing them down when congested and requiring more radio spectrum space. Artemis Networks hopes to solve this problem with a new technology called pCell that promises full speed mobile data regardless of the number of users.

Nickolay Lamm is a self-identified artist and researcher, who transforms New York, Chicago, Hollywood, and Washington D.C. by converting cellular network transmissions into visual overlays on city images.

A team of researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics FKIE has demonstrated a malware prototype with the ability to jump the "air gap" – meaning that even disconnecting your computer from networks may not be enough to ensure its protection.

Connected Data has launched the Transporter Sync, a device that turns ordinary external hard-drives into private cloud storage. Users can access their documents, photos, videos and music from computers on their home network, online or via Android, iPhone and iPad apps.

Imagine mobile sensor networks that run around, jump and maneuver in the air to get the job done. That's just what Jianguo Zhao is working towards; his design for mobile sensor networks involves biologically-inspired sensors in the form of robots with little tails.

Space Monkey hopes to take the cloud out of the data center and put it in your home.

The Transporter is a device that allows people to back up their files off-site, on the hard drives of people whom they know and trust.