JPL stream cat videos from deep space
It's what Jack Parsons would have wanted
JPL has tested its Deep Space Optical Communications network by live streaming an HD cat video from 19 million miles away.
NASA’s space-based laser network works
Making the network go "pew pew"
NASA picked up a laser signal fired from an instrument that launched with the Psyche spacecraft, which is currently more than 16 million kilometres from Earth and heading toward a mysterious metal asteroid.
Ethernet turns 50
And still king
The leading technology for connecting computers, Ethernet, has turned 50, and there is no sign of it going away.
SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet breaks even
Two million subscribers
There's now two million subscribers to SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service, with CEO Elon [look at me] Musk claiming the service has "achieved breakeven cash flow."
Tim flogs off fixed-line business to Americans
First to part from landlines
Telecom Italia, which has the Monty Python acronym Tim, has flogged off its fixed-line network to US private equity firm KKR for €19 billion.