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How Wi-Fi Is Crippling the Ethernet Standard
Mobile Computing
December 26, 2014
How Wi-Fi Is Crippling the Ethernet Standard
Ethernet, the wired networking technology that originated at Xerox PARC more than 40 years ago, has always been remarkably solid. Much as Wi-Fi has ruled wireless networking since its inception in 1997, Ethernet has always stayed the course, adopting and refining new technologies as required, but never diverging from the path. After all, that is Ethernet’s strength: Without standardization, the world (or at least the world’s networks) would fall apart.…
Futuristic Technology Expected Coming in 2015 and Beyond
Tech News
December 26, 2014
Futuristic Technology Expected Coming in 2015 and Beyond
When you’re looking for the coolest, most science-fictiony tech out there, it’s not always a shiny new gadget or even something that’s very new at all. One of the most exciting, future-busting technologies of 2014 was a system created more than a decade ago, scarcely improved on since, and only deployed at the end of the past year. But because of it, we landed on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The scientific data…