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Fiber optic cables are used in effective cable communication to send data. The maximum theoretical transmission efficiency of light sent through them is 92 percent. These fibers have drawbacks, but airborne laser signal transmission is incomparable to it. Researchers have been attempting to do the same across the air, though, …

The first security incident of the Musk era—a purported data breach that allegedly exposed the contact information of millions of users—finally prompted Twitter to end its silence. By exploiting a zero-day security hole in Twitter’s systems, which was previously held responsible for exposing at least 5 million Twitter accounts before …

The parent holding company of Google, Alphabet, has announced that it will be laying off about 6% of its workers worldwide. Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google and Alphabet, wrote an open letter in which he noted that the company had “hired for a different economic reality” than what it’s …

T-Mobile disclosed that a hacker gained access to a treasure trove of personal information belonging to 37 million customers in a financial filing on Thursday. The telecommunications behemoth claimed that the data theft began on November 25 and that the “bad actor” stole “name, billing address, email, phone number, date …

There are simply not enough chargers for everyone’s electronic needs. Simply put, chargers work like magic to keep us and our electronics powered up all day. Yes, we dislike having to share our beloved chargers with multiple devices and the tangled cables, but how does one choose which device to …

In the case of Ana Walshe, the prosecution has read out a list of Google searches that the defendant, Brian Walshe, who is accused of killing and disinterring a body, is said to have conducted. On the morning that Ana is thought to have vanished, Brian is said to have …

The DISH-owned streaming service Sling TV ended Q4 2022 with a loss of 77,000 subscribers, marking a significant decline in subscribers for the entire year. Sling TV now has a total of 2.33 million subscribers, down from 2.41 million in the previous quarter, as revealed in an SEC filing on …

Amazon is scrambling to save money wherever it can after announcing a significant round of layoffs that will affect 18,000 workers just a few days ago and ending AmazonSmile. AmazonSmile is a program that donates 0.5% of the price of all qualifying purchases to charitable organizations. It is a different …

The teenage app market is challenging to break into and remain relevant in. Ask Snapchat, please. Teenagers are also going through a time in their lives where almost every social interaction seems to portend something negative. This would help to explain why teen comment apps like SendIt, NGL, and Nocapp—some …

To inform users when videos they are viewing on the app are published by entities whose “editorial output or decision-making process” is subject to influence by a government, TikTok today announced it is expanding its “state-controlled media” label to over 40 more global markets. State-controlled media in Russia, Ukraine, and …