A group of six international companies has announced plans to build an ultra-high speed, undersea, fiber-optic cable under the Pacific Ocean, between Japan and the United States. The project is meant to improve Internet and other telecommunication tr

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Reporter: What do you mean you do a lot of the work yourself? 记者:您说你们自己做了很多的工作, 这是什么意思呢? Schmidt: Well, essentially, we do all of the software. So the computers that were running start off with Linux

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AS IT IS 2014-08-22 US, Japan to Connect with Fiber-Optic Cable 美国与日本建设更快的链接光纤 Work will begin immediately on a new fiber-optic cable between the United States and Japan. The $300 million project, called FASTER, is to be f

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Dark Fiber Networks Can Sense Seismicity When an earthquake hits or a volcano erupts, scientists traditionally record the shaking using a specially designed instrument called a seismometer. These sensors are extremely sensitive, but theyre also expen

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