Under a new FCC proposal, any area able to obtain wireless speeds of at least 10 Mbps down, 1 Mbps would be deemed good enough for American consumers. Under the previous FCC, wireless was deemed important, but not yet anywhere near a suitable replacement for fixed-line broadband, especially in more remote areas where cellular connectivity …
File a comment with the FCC to let them know that affordable true high speed (1+ Gbps) is needed. The FCC wants to ditch the requirement to provide higher speed internet and try to say that the current slow speeds that have existed for about 20 years are good enough. Section 706 of the Telecommunications …
John Cioffi described Terabit DSL (TDSL). It include carrying 50-600 GHz wireless signals through the tiny spaces between individual twisted pairs or the cables that bundle a hundred of them. “We are shooting for a terabit/second over 100 meters, 100 Gbits/s at 300 meters and 10 Gbits/s at 500 meters — all those are 200 …
A team of Russian scientists has successfully tested the country’s first railgun, which relies on electromagnetic forces rather than explosives or propellant. According to experts at the Institute of High Temperatures’ branch in Shatura, just outside Moscow, the railgun can fire shells at an incredibly fast speed of 3 kilometers per second, which is well …
A new NMR microscope gives researchers an improved instrument to study fundamental physical processes. It also offers new possibilities for medical science, for example to better study proteins in Alzheimer patients’ brains. This is a major step forward towards the ultimate goal of a device that can measure variations at the nanoscale to study the …
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For the first time, doctors have temporarily opened the protective barrier of the human brain and shown that it helps to boost the delivery of cancer medication to brain tumors. The new approach may allow us to temporarily lift the brain barrier. Microbubbles – tiny bubbles of an innocuous gas wrapped in a lipid coating …
The US Air Force mainly wants to keep poring money into the F35s and other advanced systems. For years, the US Air Force has been trying to kill the A-10 Thunderbolt II, the service’s close-air-support workhorse. Officials have cited budget constraints and the need to save money to invest in other platforms as reasons to …
When an airplane begins to move faster than the speed of sound, it creates a shockwave that produces a well-known “boom” of sound. Now, researchers at MIT and elsewhere have discovered a similar process in a sheet of graphene, in which a flow of electric current can, under certain circumstances, exceed the speed of slowed-down …
Robotic in orbit assembly and laser propulsion could enable vast increases in space capability while not significantly changing the world civilization energy budget. Robotic and additive manufacturing could enable massive frames and massive solar power arrays Tethers Unlimited is currently developing a revolutionary suite of technologies called “SpiderFab” to enable on-orbit fabrication of large spacecraft …
Reminder of the Kardashev scale A Type 1 Kardashev civilization is capable of harnessing the total energy of its home planet. Solar Energy received by the Earth from the sun is 174 Petawatts (1.74 X 10^17 watts). A type 2 Kardashev civilization is capable of harnessing the total energy of its star. Solar energy produced …