Today's explosion of video and Internet data is driving unprecedented traffic demand within datacenters. With data transfer rates exceeding 100 gigabits-per-second (Gb/s), communication between servers requires optical switches with faster switching time (micro-to nano-second level), broader band operation, larger capacity for switching elements and lower energy consumption.
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have developed a novel silicon photonic switch, which is the largest-scale and the lowest-energy loss switch reported to date. It features a switching time of sub-micro seconds and a broad bandwidth of hundreds of nanometers.
By the end of 2020, all registered dogs in China's city of Shenzhen must be implanted with a chip. That's ruff.
Microsoft and Sony still have not given any details about the cost of their impending consoles. However, they are extensively anticipated to be more costly than their present-gen models.
Hackers attack the supercomputers of the UK, Germany, and Switzerland, and "infections" included cryptocurrency-mining spyware.
