Telecom
Exactly 50 years ago, Noble prize winner Charles Kao and his colleagues demonstrated the feasibility of using fibre optical cables to transmit information over long distance.
Feb 29, 2016
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Software
They are among the most iconic and inaccessible of the world's vast collection of damaged manuscripts.
Mar 21, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is much more than just a buzzword nowadays. It powers facial recognition in smartphones and computers, translation between foreign languages, systems which filter spam emails and identify toxic ...
Apr 13, 2022
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Internet
In recent months, people have reported seeing a parade of star-like points passing across the night sky. The formation is not extraterrestrial, or even astrophysical in origin, but is in fact a line of satellites, recently ...
Jun 11, 2021
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Internet
Fifteen years ago Jack Dorsey typed out a banal message—"just setting up my twttr"—which became the first ever tweet, launching a global platform that has become a controversial and dominant force in civil society.
Mar 22, 2021
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Consumer & Gadgets
China's Huawei has overtaken Samsung to become the number-one smartphone seller worldwide in the second quarter on the back of strong domestic demand, industry tracker Canalys said Thursday.
Jul 30, 2020
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Internet
Twitter said Wednesday it would allow researchers to access data on real-time conversations about the coronavirus pandemic to help deepen their understanding of the disease.
Apr 30, 2020
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Internet
With more than one third of the globe's population confined to their homes in an attempt to limit the spread of the coronavirus, some are asking if the increased demand being put on the internet could substantially slow down ...
Mar 26, 2020
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Business
Huawei will step up its presence in the global market for computer hardware, a top company official said on Wednesday, as the Chinese telecom giant weathers a US assault on its 5G network and smartphone business.
Sep 18, 2019
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Business
Chinese telecoms giant Huawei said Friday it had renewed a licensing agreement with Ericsson to use each other's technologies, in a rebuff to US warnings about the risk of espionage by Beijing.
Aug 25, 2023
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