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Fiber Optics Bring You Internet. Now They’re Also Listening to Trains

Stretching thousands upon thousands of miles under your feet, a web of fibrous ears is listening. Whether you walk over buried fiber optics or...

Cicadas Are So Loud, Fiber Optic Cables Can ‘Hear’ Them

One of the world’s most peculiar test beds stretches above Princeton, New Jersey. It’s a fiber optic cable strung between three utility poles that...

Google Fiber Workers Vote to Unionize

Retail associates at a pair of Google Fiber stores in Kansas City, Missouri, have voted to unionize, becoming the first group represented by the...

How Underground Fiber Optics Spy on Humans Moving Above

When last spring’s lockdown quieted the Penn State campus and surrounding town of State College, a jury-rigged instrument was “listening.” A team of researchers...

The World Is Facing A Natural Vanilla Shortage. This Guy Says He Will Fix That By Producing Vanilla From Corn Fiber

Spero CTO Ian Klein, PhD (front) and chemical engineer John Stair (back) finalize development of ... Spero's natural...

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