All posts tagged: Fiber

AT&T Sues Charter Over ‘Fiber’ Internet 

AT&T Sues Charter Over ‘Fiber’ Internet 

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AT&T filed a lawsuit against Charter on Friday, alleging that its marketing of “fiber-powered” internet is misleading customers.  The argument centers around an ad campaign from Charter, which sells home internet under the Spectrum brand name.  Fiber is widely considered the gold standard for home internet. It’s the only connection type that delivers symmetrical upload and download speeds, which makes it especially valuable for activities like online gaming or videoconferencing. On Spectrum’s cable plans, typical upload speeds top out at 40Mbps, while download speeds exceed 1,000Mbps. I always advise readers to go with a fiber provider whenever it’s available.  Over the past couple of years, cable internet providers have increasingly tried to capitalize on that fiber cache. It’s technically true that Spectrum provides “fiber-powered” internet. Like all cable ISPs, Spectrum uses fiber-optic cables — thin glass strands that carry data through light signals — for the vast majority of its network. But it switches to copper coaxial cables in most cases to travel the proverbial last mile to your home. Fiber providers like AT&T, on …

Best T-Mobile Fiber Deals for 2026 and Home Internet Plan Comparison

Best T-Mobile Fiber Deals for 2026 and Home Internet Plan Comparison

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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, The Hollywood Reporter may receive an affiliate commission. As college football kicks off and TV premiere season peaks, T-Mobile is helping fans and families get in on the action with its deepest deals to date on Fiber Home Internet. Other than the speed (more on that later), T-Mobile Fiber is now at its lowest price of the year thanks to two limited-time offers. To meet each household’s needs and price constraints, T-Mobile offers three distinct fiber internet options: “Fast” (Fiber 300 Mbps), “Faster” (Fiber 1 Gig) and “Fastest” (Fiber 2 Gig).  Right now, they are as low as $35 per month with AutoPay, plus taxes and fees.  As for the “Faster” (1 Gig) plan, the monthly rate of $60 drops to $50 per month with AutoPay, and for the “Fastest” (2 Gig) plan, $80 drops to $70 per month with AutoPay, plus taxes and fees. And here’s where the second seasonal offer comes into play: For a limited time, customers …

HP Introduces First HyperX Open-Back Headset, Lightweight Carbon Fiber Mouse and More

HP Introduces First HyperX Open-Back Headset, Lightweight Carbon Fiber Mouse and More

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HP might not be ready to bring any new gaming laptops or desktop computers into the fray just yet, but it debuted a healthy heaping of new peripherals under its HyperX gaming brand to keep casuals, hard-core gamers and streamers happy. HyperX announced its first open-back headphones and most lightweight mouse, along with a few other goodies that might upgrade your gaming experience. HyperX keeps the focus on gamers, but there are a few pieces of tech here, like the SoloCast 2 Pro mic, that I think will function best in the hands of content creators. There’s a little something for everyone, with products featured at variable prices throughout the lineup. These open-back headphones might provide more situational awareness, if you can wrest them from the dragon’s maw.Josh Goldman/CNET The Cloud Air Alpha is HyperX’s first open-back gaming headset Any parent struggling to get their kid’s attention while they’re crushing a Fortnite lobby will probably be happy about new open-back headphones because they allow more outside noise to filter. And gamers themselves will be happy …

Relativity Networks raises million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers

Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers

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Data center developers are expected to spend as much as $4 trillion by the end of the decade — and they’re already heavily constrained by both political and power-grid considerations in where they can build. But while most treat the speed of fiber as a given, one company is betting that faster fiber could change the geographical math behind the data center buildout. On Tuesday, Relativity Networks announced $22 million in SAFE note funding drawn by Rhapsody Venture Partners, Bell Ventures Inc., and Faster Than Glass LLC, among others. A SAFE note, in which an investment transfers into a specific numbers of shares once the company raises its first priced round, is a standard method used for pre-seed and seed rounds. The company also secured a $40 million follow-on order from a leading hyperscaler that declined to be named for this piece. Relativity Networks deals in hollow-core fiber, a rarely deployed technology that allows data to be transmitted 30% faster than conventional fiber. Where traditional fiber transmits light through fiber-optic glass, hollow-core fiber transmits the …

Advancing multicore fiber technologies for future applications

Advancing multicore fiber technologies for future applications

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The MATCH project is a European doctoral training network advancing multicore fiber technologies through collaboration between 14 academic and industrial partners. As artificial intelligence, cloud computing, video streaming, 5G networks, and the Internet of Things continue to accelerate digital transformation, global data traffic is growing at an unprecedented rate. To support this growth, future communication infrastructures must provide significantly greater transmission capacity while reducing energy consumption and optimising network resources. One of the most promising solutions is multicore fiber (MCF) technology. By integrating multiple optical cores within a single fiber, MCFs enable parallel transmission channels that can dramatically increase communication capacity while maintaining compatibility with existing optical network infrastructures. In addition to telecommunications, MCFs are opening new possibilities in distributed sensing applications, including environmental monitoring, fire detection, seismic activity monitoring, and structural health assessment. Technology for the next generation of networks Conventional single-mode fibers have enabled decades of growth in global communications. However, with traffic volumes continuing to increase, entirely new approaches are needed to scale network capacity in a sustainable manner. Space-Division Multiplexing (SDM) …

How much fiber do you need in a day? We asked a gastroenterologist.

How much fiber do you need in a day? We asked a gastroenterologist.

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. By signing up, you confirm you are 16+, will receive newsletters and promotional content and agree to our Terms of Use and acknowledge the data practices in our Privacy Policy. You may unsubscribe at any time. New, from the culture that brought you the fat-forward keto diet, the carb-hostile Atkins diet, and the amino-obsessed high-protein craze comes the latest (and last remaining) macronutrient fetish promising weight loss, heart health, disease prevention, and a shiny coat: fibermaxxing! The hashtag has exploded on social media, with health influencers extolling the biohacking benefits of dietary fiber. Consumer goods manufacturers are shoehorning it into soda, cookies, and coffee creamers, much as they were with protein earlier in the year. People are monitoring their digestive tracts like they’re the Dow Jones. Improbably, a nutrient previously associated with  octogenarian irregularity and Saturday Night Live sketches now has crazy aura. But is fibermaxxing actually a legitimate nutritional strategy? “What people don’t understand when they follow these …

Sign up for T-Mobile Fiber 2 Gig and get 0 back, plus a month included

Sign up for T-Mobile Fiber 2 Gig and get $100 back, plus a month included

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T-Mobile/ZDNET An advertiser paid for editorial consideration of this deal. Our editorial experts vetted the deal using their independent expertise. Because we determined that the deal will save money for the consumer, we wrote the content. T-Mobile Fiber delivers 100% fiber internet to your home, with unlimited data and plans starting at $45 per month with AutoPay. Right now, new customers who sign up for the 1 Gig or 2 Gig plan will get their first month on T-Mobile, while 2 Gig customers also get $100 back via a virtual prepaid Mastercard, for a limited time. Also: The right way to run an internet speed test The month on T-Mobile applies to both the 1 Gig plan, which runs $60 per month with AutoPay, and the 2 Gig plan at $70 per month, so you don’t have to max out your speeds to qualify. The offer isn’t applicable to the entry-level 300 Mbps, though. After your first 30 days, the plan automatically renews at the regular rate ($70 per month for 1 Gig, $80 per month …

Fiido Air Carbon Fiber Electric Bike Review: A Light, Quiet Ebike

Fiido Air Carbon Fiber Electric Bike Review: A Light, Quiet Ebike

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It picks up quickly at lights, and acceleration—especially in Sport mode—is reassuringly quick when it’s time to overtake. I’m delighted by how effortless the overall performance is, and how smoothly the torque kicks in. What’s more, moving it, wheeling it through the house, lifting it onto bike racks, and even just doing basic things like locking it up, is just easier in every way. The motor is quiet, too. While not totally silent, it’s not a distraction. Impressively, too, the Air can also be ridden reasonably easily without electric assist. A 30-pound single speed bike won’t set any track records, but if power does fail you—or more likely, you misjudge the battery level and forget to charge overnight like I did—it won’t be too much of a workout to get home. But please don’t confuse this commuter-style electric bike with a powerful mid-drive motor electric bike. With a meagre motor and only one gear (and quite a low one at that) it does not love hills. Steady inclines are easy, but there’s one short, sharp-ish …

Corning Shares Erupt On Nvidia Deal To Supercharge Fiber Optics Output By 10x

Corning Shares Erupt On Nvidia Deal To Supercharge Fiber Optics Output By 10x

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U.S.-based glass company Corning soared in premarket trading in New York after announcing a new mega deal with Nvidia to expand manufacturing capacity for fiber optic production used in AI data centers. “Corning will increase its U.S.-based optical connectivity manufacturing capacity by 10x and expand its U.S. fiber production capacity by more than 50% to meet the accelerating demand driven by AI factory buildouts,” Nvidia wrote in a press release.  The expansion includes three new manufacturing plants in North Carolina and Texas and is expected to create more than 3,000 high-paying U.S. jobs. In a filing, Corning disclosed that Nvidia is making a $500 million equity-linked investment. Under the deal, Corning issued Nvidia two warrants: Traditional warrant: Nvidia can buy up to 15 million Corning shares at $180 per share. Pre-funded warrant: Nvidia can buy up to 3 million Corning shares at a nominal exercise price of $0.0001 per share. Both warrants are exercisable immediately and expire within three years, unless earlier triggered by the termination of the partnership agreement or a major M&A transaction. …

Callaway’s new golf driver face combines titanium, carbon fiber, and a military-grade polymer found in an unlikely way

Callaway’s new golf driver face combines titanium, carbon fiber, and a military-grade polymer found in an unlikely way

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Sign Up For Goods 🛍️ Product news, reviews, and must-have deals. Golf driver faces have been almost exclusively titanium for more than three decades, with some detours into carbon fiber. Callaway tried one of those detours itself with the all-composite C4 in the early 2000s. Its new Quantum drivers take a different approach to the problem: keep the titanium, add the carbon, and bond the two with a polymer the company describes as “military-grade.” The layered build, which Callaway is calling the Tri-Force Face, debuts across all five of its flagship Quantum driver heads this season. The titanium-carbon trade-off It’s a slick-looking face. Callway Titanium has been the industry standard for driver faces for years and for good reason. At impact, the face has to flex inward and snap back fast enough to launch the ball before contact ends. Golf’s governing agency, the USGA, caps how long the ball can stay on the face using a measurement called Characteristic Time, or CT. It’s one of the biggest technical constraints that keeps drivers in check for …