Designing fiber optic networks involves finding the most efficient way to connect phones and computers that are in different places -- a costly and time-consuming process. Now researchers have ...

LEVERETT — Inside a green metal building in Leverett, lightning-fast internet connections pulse through yellow-coated fibers, one per customer. One strand belongs to Susan Valentine, an artist who ...

Taara started as a Google X moonshot spinoff aimed at connecting rural villages in sub-Saharan Africa with beams of light.

Ammon, a town of roughly 16,000, shares its entire western border with Idaho Falls, a town of roughly 62,000. The two towns share a sibling rivalry that at worst leads to bouts of squabbling, but at ...

Its “dark fiber” project in Huntsville creates a model that might finally thrust US Internet access into the 21st Century Illustration by Patrycja Podkościelny This week, Google launched what amounts ...

The chatbot era ended—agentic AI needs physical networks. Corning's fiber optics are essential as connectivity demand grows ...

Editor’s note: This is part of a series about the fiber-optic internet revolution taking place in Bonneville County, where the cities of Ammon and Idaho Falls have used public network ownership to ...

SLICFiber, based in the state’s northernmost county, will build out a fiber optic network across nearly all of the north ...

Will fiber consolidation help or hinder border-to-border broadband access? And will business and residential customers benefit?

In 2000, internet access was a bit of a luxury. It was useful, but you could easily get by without it. Today, that’s no longer true. Work, commerce, schooling and participation in the public sphere — ...