Adapting a laser system called Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration that was used to transmit data between lunar orbit and the Earth, MIT's Lincoln Laboratories is developing a way for underwater workers and machines to communicate more effectively with one another.
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It’s an unfortunate truth that weapons and explosives in public places are an increasing problem. But many screening technologies are bulky and expensive, and require staff to operate. Now a new study has found a way to tap into a type of signal that’s already ubiquitous in public places – Wi-Fi.
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Not a day goes by without someone throwing out the term 'fake news'. While misinformation and inaccurate reporting is undeniably a major global problem, fake news is quickly morphing into something else entirely, and some governments are using the phrase as a way to quash dissenting opinions.
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One of the limiting factors of remotely-operated vehicles is the fact that, in order for their operators to see what the ROVs' cameras are seeing, the craft have to be tethered to a support ship. Scientists are working on changing that, using lasers to wirelessly transmit video through the water.
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While it is possible for video bloggers to do multi-camera productions, they pretty much have to record everything with every camera, then go back and edit between them. The Cutbox Studio system, however, allows users to cut live between three included cameras.
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Plain old video calls could soon be made to look very outdated, thanks to new research coming out of Queen's University in Ontario. A team there has produced a 3D teleconferencing system called TeleHuman 2, which enables real-time holograms of people to appear in any location.
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Quantum encryption can make data breaches literally impossible, and in a new demonstration of that kind of security, scientists have now used the Chinese satellite Micius to send quantum-encrypted data between China and Austria. That brings the world another step closer to a global quantum internet.
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The UK Government has just announced that from 2020, high-speed broadband will be considered a legal right for all its citizens, meaning service providers must offer access to any person that requests it
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After a brief couple of years of Obama-era net neutrality rules, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has now officially overturned the regulations that blocked internet service providers from throttling or prioritizing certain packets of information as they see fit.
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Fast affordable broadband is one of the essentials of modern life. Hence the latest data from Cable.co.uk paints an interesting picture of which countries are doing it right, and those where short-term gain for the telcos has prevailed.
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