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Optical microscopes get 20x more powerful, can now spy on viruses – DVICE

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no fancy detectors or computers or anything besides the Mk.I eyeball. There’s a lot of potential here for figuring out exactly how viruses attack our bodies, something which hasn’t been possible before. All that was required to up the resolution was a …
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With Bandwidth Demand Booming, a New Kind of Optical Network Is Born (Stacey Higginbotham/GigaOM)

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Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
With Bandwidth Demand Booming, a New Kind of Optical Network Is Born  —  Allied Fiber said today it’s begun construction of a nationwide wholesale fiber network that will span 11,548 miles.  The New York-based company will build out the network in six phases, linking undersea cable landing points …

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