GoKawiil - Tech News

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Thunder + fiber-optic cabling used for seismic imaging (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: seismic imaging, thunderquakes, fiber-optic cabling

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HP Introduces First HyperX Open-Back Headset, Lightweight Carbon Fiber Mouse and More (cnet.com)

2026-08-20 | by Tyler Graham | tags: hyperx, open-back headphones, cloud air alpha

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Virginia county with 250 data centers begins to rein in building — Loudoun’s more than 250 data centers made it one of the richest counties in the US, but residents are pushing back (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-20 | by Jowi Morales | tags: loudoun data centers, fiber internet, aol

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Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-19 | by Russell Brandom | tags: relativity networks, hollow-core fiber, hyperscaler

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Physicists Entangle Quantum Memories Across a Record-Breaking 420 Kilometers (slashdot.org)

2026-08-19 | tags: quantum memories, optical fibers, physical review letters

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Flat Chair by Sara Paculdo (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-17 | tags: flat chair, sara paculdo, fiberglass

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Is Verizon down for you? Here’s what’s going on (Update) (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: verizon, fiber cuts, android authority

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Verizon is so fed up with cable vandals, it’s putting a $25,000 bounty on them (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: verizon, fiber cables, android authority

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Verizon suffers another outage, this time after fiber cables were cut by vandals (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: verizon, fiber cables, southern california

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EON wants to move the data superhighway from ocean fiber to space lasers (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-04 | by Tim Fernholz | tags: eon, undersea fiber, space lasers

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Cyberscript (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-02 | tags: cyberscript, fibers, jit

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Solid Queue 1.6.0 now supports fiber workers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: solid queue, fibers, rails

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AT&T Promo Codes: $50 Off This August 2026 (wired.com)

2026-08-01 | by Kat Merck | tags: att, samsung galaxy z fold8, att fiber

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Broadband Cables Are Surprisingly Good at Detecting Earthquakes (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: fiber optic cables, earthquake detection, broadband cables

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Fiber-Optic Internet Cables Measure Earthquakes More Accurately Than the Government’s Alert System, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: fiber optic cables, earthquake detection, government alert system

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The Government’s Earthquake Warning System Has a 30% Accuracy Rate. Scientists Found Something Better (gizmodo.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: fiber optic cables, earthquake warning system, government

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A Remote Indigenous Community Built One of Canada’s Fastest Fiber Networks (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-07-30 | by Rachel Berkowitz | tags: fiber-optic network, western james bay telecom, fort albany first nation

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Corning tumbles 16% after earnings, leading rout in optical stocks (cnbc.com)

2026-07-28 | by Cj Haddad | tags: corning, fiber-optic, china

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Verizon touts $1B dark fiber deal for Google data centers as first of many (arstechnica.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: verizon, google, dark fiber

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This tiny fiber-optic plug could make laser weapons battlefield-ready (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-07-27 | tags: attalon, fiber-optic, laser weapons

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Kaizen #4: Overhauled Homelab (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-24 | tags: homelab, zimaboard, nixos

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T-Mobile, Verizon or AT&T? New study reveals best mobile carrier - ranks internet providers, too (zdnet.com)

2026-07-22 | by Lance Whitney | tags: t-mobile, at&t fiber, verizon

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The $1,200 Galaxy Z Flip 8 has a plastic back (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: galaxy z flip 8, samsung, glass fiber-reinforced polymer

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AT&T Loses Key Ruling In Bid To Stop Offering Basic Phone Service In California (slashdot.org)

2026-07-21 | tags: att, california, fiber

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These AT&T home internet plans are getting a $5 price hike (androidauthority.com)

2026-07-20 | tags: att, at&t internet, fiber

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Sign up for T-Mobile Fiber 2 Gig and get $100 back, plus a month included (zdnet.com)

2026-07-20 | by Palash Volvoikar | tags: t-mobile fiber, 2 gig, prepaid mastercard

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Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-18 | tags: fable 5, gpt-5.6 sol, np-hard problem

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Verizon Fios boosts its fastest plan to 5Gbps (engadget.com)

2026-07-17 | by Steve Dent | tags: verizon fios, google fiber, 5gbps plan

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Tannakian Reconstruction (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-14 | tags: tannakian reconstruction, functor, fiber functors

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Show HN: Runloom – Go-style coroutines for Python free-threaded (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-10 | tags: blocking, core, cpython