The Morning After: Japan breaks Internet speed record

Scientists at Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) broke the Internet transfer record by moving data to 319 Tbps, nearly double the last speed test attempted in August 2020. At This speed, you can download over 7,000 high definition movies in one second.

This involved processing every part of the pipeline, upgrading the fiber optic line with four cores to the usual single core in typical lines, while the laser was amplified at its source. It also wasn’t spinning under any ocean or anything: the scientists used a coiled cable to simulate a distance of 1,864 miles.

As you would expect at the cutting edge of high-speed internet, upgrading to this capability could be extremely expensive, although quad-core fiber optic cable should work with existing infrastructure.

– Mat Smith

Give me some decent meatless nuggets.

I wasn’t sure what the most important story of the weekend was for me: incredible internet speeds or meatless “chicken nuggets”. Impossible Foods Plant-Based Chicken Nuggets are coming this fall. As with its previous launches, the startup plans to sell food to restaurants first, supermarket availability will follow later.

What is remarkable here is the absence of, a molecule that the company says gives the “meaty meat taste” in the nuggets. Because Impossible is heme with, which prevented the company from selling its burgers and sausages in China and throughout Europe. Chicken doesn’t particularly need the taste that heme offers, which is why the company instead turns to soy protein and sunflower oil, ingredients commonly found in heme. other non-meaty nuggets.

Don’t expect to see them at KFC, however. This channel already is. Continue reading.

According to the latest rumors, at least.

BloombergMark Gurman of Mark Gurman claimed over the weekend that the 2021 iPhone will potentially have an “Apple Watch-like” always-on display with better battery life in addition to a 120Hz refresh rate and a smaller screen notch. Another rumor from Max Weinbach suggested that Apple would use an LTPO (low temperature polycrystalline oxide) panel which, like on the Apple Watch and a few Android phones, could drop at lower refresh rates to show you what you want to see. without damaging the battery. life too hard. Continue reading.

It has overtaken virtually everyone, including Apple.

Canalys estimates that Xiaomi became the second-largest phone brand in the world in the second quarter of 2021, growing 83% year-over-year to claim 17% of the market. It passed Apple (14%) to take second place and also passed its Chinese rivals Oppo and Vivo.

Next obstacle? Beat Samsung. Continue reading.

New findings could also hint at ancient water.

Caltech researchers have six locations for methane “burps” (i.e., emission points) on the planet, including one a few dozen kilometers west-southwest of the world. location of the Curiosity rover. The research has not yet been peer reviewed, but it is possible that the gas has inorganic origins. Continue reading.

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