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Scientists in the US have linked up the brains of participants almost 1.5 km apart, allowing them to play a 20 questions-style game using nothing but their thoughts. This is the first experiment to demonstrate that two brains can be linked up directly to allow one person to accurately guess what's on the other's mind, and it's a pretty huge deal.

Facebook's website and mobile app went down for some users Monday afternoon - the third outage for the social network in as many weeks. While Facebook's website appeared to load very slowly for some users, the app and website were inaccessible to many Monday afternoon.

The expenses that come with starting up a business facility can be quite large. This is especially true for those needing to install their own fiber optic lines. The process of laying down fiber optic cable from a provider facility to your own is long and expensive.

Using a homegrown app on a Samsung Gear Live smart watch, researchers were able to guess what a user was typing through data 'leaks' produced by the motion sensors on smart watches. The project, called Motion Leaks through Smartwatch Sensors, or MoLe, has privacy implications, as an app that is camouflaged as a pedometer, for example, could gather data from emails, search queries and other confidential documents.

Not specifically about networking, but an interesting article regardless.

I thought this was appropriate given our last lab about the switches and other networking devices.

The US has a big and rather complicated internet speed problem.

The Austrian branch of T-Mobile is refusing to block access to The Pirate Bay and several other popular torrent sites.

this is from k-state libraries, so you will have to log in to read it. A 5.4-billion-transistor computer chip with 4096 neurosynaptic coresis is being made that is connected with an intrachip network.

Anomalies in data are everywhere. They appear in the performance of just about anything you can measure. Sometimes, if you're lucky, they're rare. Other times they aren't. The problem in both cases, however, is figuring out what is truly an anomaly and what just appears to be one.

In collaboration with the Institute of Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ANSTO researchers have manipulated the electrochemical properties of a material that could improve the capacity and life of sodium-ion batteries.

A Liverpool-based computer games designer is hoping to be at the forefront of what it believes will be the next big trend in social networking. Baltic Triangle based Starship is launching vTime, a new social network that will allow people to interact with each other using virtual reality (VR) headsets.

In an open letter to US president Barack Obama, Cisco's outspoken CEO John Chambers called on the president to rein in the activities of the National Security Agency (NSA) after it was revealed the agency routinely tapped Cisco network hardware being exported outside the US, before putting it back into the supply chain.

The drone, called Aquila, is the baby of Facebook's year-old Connectivity Lab. The lab has been developing new technology as part of the social network's mission to "connect everybody in the world." Four billion people don't have access to the Internet, and 10% of the world's population lacks the necessary infrastructure to get online.

Summary: Researchers at the Centre of Graphene Science at the Universities of Bath and Exeter have demonstrated a 100x improvement in optical-fibre broadband speeds. Researchers at the Centre of Graphene Science at the Universities of Bath and Exeter have demonstrated a drastic improvement in optical-fibre broadband speeds via the use of the miracle material: graphene.

Myriam Gumuchian is the fourth generation of her family to make jewelry. But she told CNBC the visual aspect of social media is working in reaching her customers. "Women can relate when they see a picture of a ring on a finger, or a necklace or an earring," Myriam said, adding that "we like to show how it's worn in real time.

Gogo's 2Ku service received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration this week, clearing the way for it to be installed on commercial airplanes later this year.

Entertaining speakers? Check. Thought-provoking presentations? Check. Reliable Wi-Fi? Double check. On today's conference and trade show circuit, event organizers must build and manage massive, city-sized networks to support increasingly connected attendees. At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) , connectivity is the linchpin of success.