Tag: fibre optics

MTE Answers: Why Is Fiber Optic Internet Faster Than Copper?

Internet transmission speed on fiber optic cable is much faster than the old copper infrastructures we relied on for decades. Why is this so? Let discuss it.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Jul 14, 2014

3 Questions About Fiber Optics Finally Answered

You’re probably wondering why your ISP is not switching to fiber optics and providing faster connection speed. We will take a detail look at the situation and answer all of these questions in a way that’s easy to understand!.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Oct 28, 2013

In 2026, scientists assembled the Greenland shark’s 5.9-billion-letter genome and examined retinas from animals more than a century old, finding intact vision, expanded DNA-repair pathways and unusual chromatin machinery inside a vertebrate believed capable of surviving for nearly four centuries

Jul 24, 2026

At 3 gigahertz, a processor has only a third of a nanosecond between clock ticks, enough time for light to travel about 10 centimetres in vacuum before real interconnects, logic gates and capacitance shrink the distance a signal can cross on the chip

Jul 24, 2026

When Adobe announced Flash’s end-of-life in July 2017, it closed a technology that had once run on 99 per cent of desktops — and took with it an estimated four million animations, games and interactive works now preserved only by an amateur archive called Flashpoint

Jul 24, 2026

When Japan’s trade ministry put the PlayStation 2 under export control in April 2000, its 6.2-gigaflop hardware was considered adaptable for missile guidance, briefly forcing anyone exporting more than one console to seek government approval

Jul 24, 2026

How did a failed CD deal between Sony and Nintendo in 1991 accidentally create the console that would sell 155 million units and reshape gaming?

How did a failed CD deal between Sony and Nintendo in 1991 accidentally create the console that would sell over 100 million units and reshape gaming?

Jul 24, 2026

Every QR code hides three larger squares in its corners — they let a scanner find the code at any angle, and the pattern also carries enough redundancy to still read after roughly 30 per cent of the code is damaged or covered

Standard QR codes hide three larger squares in their corners so scanners can orient them from any angle, while their strongest Reed-Solomon setting can restore roughly 30 per cent of damaged codewords, though not necessarily 30 per cent of the visible square

Jul 24, 2026

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