What cool technologies are coming from the lab?

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	Bell Labs claims new speed record over regular old copper wiring Most of the higher-speed Internet connections used by businesses these days require fiber-optic cabling, but Alcatel-Lucent's Bell Labs division claimed this week to have reached 10Gbps using nothing but new transmission technology and ordinary copper wiring. The technology, called XG-FAST, is an outgrowth of a standard undergoing final review at the International Telecommunications Union, called G.fast. The G.fast specification calls for the use of a wide spectrum range of 106MHz – far larger than that used by existing DSL technology. Effectively, G.fast can send or receive data much faster than conventional DSL, though it can only do so over comparatively short distances, around 100 meters.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More In this Issue Superclass: 14 of the world's best living programmers DARPA demos lightweight, 94GHz silicon system on a chip Six Free Cisco Labs IBM rethinking decades-old computer design with $3 billion investment Quick look: NASA tests supersonic Mars flying saucer 6 of the very coolest new Microsoft lab projects 100Mb/sec Ethernet coming to a car near you? 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"This accomplishment opens the door for co-designing digital CMOS [complementary metal oxide semiconductors] and millimeter-wave capabilities as an integrated system on an all-silicon chip, which should also make possible new design architectures for future military [wireless] systems."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Six Free Cisco Labs Looking for some practical experience with Cisco routers and switches for little to no cost? There's no shortage of free Cisco labs on the Web. Read More IBM rethinking decades-old computer design with $3 billion investment IBM is also looking ahead at a world in which computer chips don't have silicon Read More Quick look: NASA tests supersonic Mars flying saucer NASA system looks to safely lander larger spacecraft on Mars Read More 6 of the very coolest new Microsoft lab projects Here we take a look back at Microsoft annual science fair, TechFest 2013, where it showed off some of the innovations the company was working on. Read More 100Mb/sec Ethernet coming to a car near you? As more and more infotainment and crash avoidance technology gets stuffed to cars and trucks, the need for better, faster and more reliable in-car networking equipment grows. In theory at least. With an eye towards that concept the IEEE this week said it formed the 802.3 Single Twisted Pair 100 Mb/s Ethernet Study Group to explore the technological needs for a 100 Mb/s speed for Ethernet in automotive networking.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More US intelligence agency wants brain-like algorithms for complex information processing Getting computers to think like humans has been a scientific goal for years – IBM recently said it found a way to make transistors that could be formed into virtual circuitry that mimics human brain functions. It is technology like that that the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) is looking to develop as well. IARPA, the high-risk, high-reward arm of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, will next month hold a Proposers Day to explain one of its new projects it says could revolutionize machine intelligence by constructing algorithms that utilize the same data representations, transformations, and learning rules as those employed and implemented by the brain.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More Bell Labs offers $100,000 prize for game-changing information technology One of the iconic research facilities in the world - Bell Labs -- today said it would offer $100,00 in prizes for researchers that have innovative ideas that can alter the information and communications technology field by a factor of 10.If that sounds pretty wide open, it is, as the lab is looking for all manner of advanced ideas in areas from web applications, cloud services, cryptography, network mathematics and security to software-defined networks, sustainability, wireless systems and coding theory.+More on Network World: 13 cool high-tech prize competitions+To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here Read More 10 disturbing attacks at Black Hat USA 2014 Attacking car systems, Google Glass for password theft, using free cloud trials to launch botnets, more Read More
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