SoftBank blasts 5G from the sky
Stratospheric base stations over remote island
SoftBank has managed to beam 5G to ordinary smartphones from the sky using a high-altitude aircraft circling Hachijō Island, Japan.
Taliban pulls the plug on Wi-Fi to save morals
Netflix and cat videos are a threat to civilisation
The Taliban has decided that the real enemy of Afghanistan isn’t poverty, famine, or collapsing infrastructure but Wi-Fi.
Microsoft-backed brainiacs crack record fibre speeds
Hollow-core cable could mean faster clouds and greener networks
A group of networking boffins bankrolled by Microsoft have emerged from their smoke filled lab claiming that they’ve broken a major speed and latency barrier with a new hollow-core fibre design.
ITU says it’ll cost up to $2.8 trillion to get everyone online
Connecting the unconnected now five times more than predicted
The International Telecommunication Union, the UN’s tech arm, says hooking up the world to the Internet by 2030 will cost $2.6-$2.8 trillion, before anyone logs on.
Huawei wants to kill PCIe, TCP/IP and NVLink
Chinese giant pitches UB-Mesh as a single unifying protocol
Huawei has rolled out a grand plan to scrap half the data centre’s plumbing and replace it with its shiny new UB-Mesh protocol.