There was a time when Google Fiber was the hot new internet provider everyone wanted in their town, but sadly, the company faced significant pushback from competitors, making it difficult for Google to expand. This gave those competitors time to catch…

Distributed acoustic sensing could allow telecom networks to study meteors Meteors regularly blaze through Earth’s atmosphere with potentially devastating effects. Now scientists reveal that they used kilometers of fiber optics to analyze shockwaves from a NASA spacecraft returning to Earth,…