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Apple considered buying Halide to upgrade its native Camera app (engadget.com)

2026-03-21 | get Halide Camera App → | tags: halide, lux optics, apple

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Halide co-founder is suing former partner for bringing source code to Apple (theverge.com)

2026-03-21 | by Terrence O'Brien | get Halide Camera App → | tags: halide, lux optics, apple

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iPhone 18 Pro camera may come with pro software, Apple considered buying Halide (9to5mac.com)

2026-03-21 | by Zac Hall | get Halide Mark II Camera App → | tags: iphone 18 pro, halide, lux optics

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A look at content scrambling in DVDs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-18 | get DVD Region Free Player → | tags: dvds, content scrambling, digital rights management

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Fiber internet provider says it can detect leaking water pipes using existing infrastructure, prevented loss of 2 million liters a day over three months — Lightsonic tech detects underground vibrations, machine learning isolates the source (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-14 | by Jowi Morales | get Lightsonic Pipe Leak Detector → | tags: fiber optic cables, distributed acoustic sensing, lightsonic

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Tech titans team up to form optical interconnect alliance to solve the AI buildout's big data bottleneck — Nvidia, AMD, Broadcom & more set sights on building PHY to break through the limitations of copper (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-13 | by Sayem Ahmed | get Optical Interconnect Kit → | tags: nvidia, amd, broadcom

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Ditch Adobe’s Pricey Subscription and Own a Lifetime PDF Editor for $39.99 (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-03-13 | by Entrepreneur Store | get PDF Element Pro → | tags: adobe acrobat, pdf agile premium, optical character recognition

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What Happens When You Put a LaserDisc Under a Microscope? (gizmodo.com)

2026-03-13 | get LaserDisc Viewer Kit → | tags: laserdics, microscope, analog signal

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Google sells partial stake in fiber business, becomes minority owner of new venture (cnbc.com)

2026-03-12 | by Jennifer Elias | get Google Fiber Startup Kit → | tags: google fiber, astound broadband, stonepeak

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Photonic ‘ski jump’ steers light beam from silicon chip (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-11 | by Sorace-Agaskar | get Photonic Beam Steering Kit → | tags: photonic ski jump, silicon chip, lidar

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A large-scale coherent 4D imaging sensor (feeds.nature.com)

2026-03-11 | by Settembrini | get 4D LIDAR Sensor Kit → | tags: ansys lumerical, cadence virtuoso, globalfoundries 45spclo

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Integrated photonics enabling ultra-wideband fibre–wireless communication (feeds.nature.com)

2026-02-18 | by Zhang | get Fiber-optic transceivers → | tags: carrier, layer, optical

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Computers Powered by Light Could Help AI's Energy Problem (cnet.com)

2026-02-17 | by See Full Bio | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: computers, computing, energy

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SpaceX vets raise $50M Series A for data center links (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-17 | by Tim Fernholz | get Data Center Links → | tags: brashears, founders, mesh

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How Computers Powered by Light Could Help With AI's Energy Problem (cnet.com)

2026-02-12 | by See Full Bio | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: computers, computing, energy

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Parity-doublet coherence times in optically trapped polyatomic molecules (feeds.nature.com)

2026-02-11 | by Robichaud | get Polyatomic molecules → | tags: et al, molecules, optical

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Remember Xiaomi’s modular camera concept? It might actually happen this year (androidauthority.com)

2026-02-04 | get Modular Camera → | tags: android, cameras, modular

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Photonics and high-speed data movement is the next big AI bottleneck — following copper, power, DRAM, and NAND (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-03 | by Chris Stokel-Walker | get Microchip → | tags: industry, kewada, optical

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A tiny light trap could unlock million qubit quantum computers (sciencedaily.com)

2026-02-02 | get Quantum computer → | tags: cavities, cavity, computers

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U.K. internet provider's bailout cancelled because rats chewed through its fiber optic cables — biodegradable cable jackets use soy- or corn-based materials, attracting hungry rats (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-31 | by Jowi Morales | get Bioplastic → | tags: fiber, fiber optic, hardware

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China is betting on ‘optical’ computer chips — will they power AI? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-30 | by Basu | tags: china, chips, electronic

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China is betting on ‘optical’ computer chips – will they power AI? (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-30 | by Basu | tags: china, chips, electronic

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Vacuum ultraviolet second-harmonic generation in NH4B4O6F crystal (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-28 | by Zhang | get Vacuum Ultraviolet Generator → | tags: et al, nonlinear, nonlinear optical

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Low-power integrated optical amplification through second-harmonic resonance (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-28 | by Dean | get Second-Harmonic Generator → | tags: et al, lett, optical

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Optical control of integer and fractional Chern insulators (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-28 | by Holtzmann | get Optical Control → | tags: ci fci, control, ferromagnetic

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Startup claims light-based chip could deliver 10x Nvidia's performance at similar power (techspot.com)

2026-01-27 | get Neuralink → | tags: calculations, calculations using, centers

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Bill Gates-backed silicon photonics startup develops optical transistors 10,000x smaller than current tech — optical chip can process 1,000 x 1,000 multiplication matrices (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-26 | by Jowi Morales | get Optical transistor → | tags: chip, nvidia, optical

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With two 200MP cameras and a zoom accessory, this Ultra flagship could be the next camera king (androidauthority.com)

2026-01-23 | get Camera → | tags: oppo, optical, renders

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From invisibility cloaks to AI chips: Neurophos raises $110M to build tiny optical processors for inferencing (techcrunch.com)

2026-01-22 | by Ram Iyer | get Neuroprocessor → | tags: chips, efficiency, microsoft

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Trapping of single atoms in metasurface optical tweezer arrays (feeds.nature.com)

2026-01-14 | by Holman | get Optical Tweezers Array → | tags: atom, et al, optical