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Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Just Launched a Messaging App That Doesn’t Need the Internet
It's called Bitchat, and it's based on Bluetooth mesh networking. Here's what to know about Jack Dorsey's latest foray into messaging systems.
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Quantum Internet Is (Slowly) Becoming a Reality
The quantum Internet can be a mind-bending, sci-fi sounding concept, but it’s also one that is getting closer, albeit slowly, ...
Is there any hope for the Internet?
Over a few decades, the Internet has merged with our bodies as smartphones and mined our personalities via algorithms that ...
Why 1995 was the year the internet grew up
NSFNET represented a pivotal shift, from the defense uses of ARPANET toward science, and laid the groundwork for the growth ...
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Beating the AI bottleneck: Communications innovation could markedly improve AI training process
Artificial intelligence (AI) is infamous for its resource-heavy training, but a new study may have found a solution in a novel communications system, called ZEN, that markedly improves the way large ...
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The forgotten 80-year-old machine that shaped the internet—and could help us survive AI
Many years ago, long before the internet or artificial intelligence, an American engineer called Vannevar Bush was trying to ...
The internet still runs on 1980s protocols – that should worry you
Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver service fell victim to a simultaneous BGP hijack and route leak event, causing massive internet outages and degradation worldwide. Pakistan caused the most famous BGP ...