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as well as content critical of the communist government - if a new system developed by researchers at the University of Michigan (U-M) and the University of Waterloo (UW) in Canada were implemented. The researchers claim the system, called Telex, would thwart Internet censorship and make it virtually impossible for a censoring government to block individual sites by essentially turning the entire web into a proxy server. <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/telex-anti-censorship-system/19488/">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item "> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="sd_top"> </div> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/dukeuniversitymetamaterialsmanipulatelight/19444/">Manipulating light at will - Duke metamaterials strike again</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <p>By <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/author/vincent-rice/" rel="author">Vincent Rice</a></p> <p><em>21:51 August 7, 2011</em></p> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <p></p> <p><img src="/web/20110815151409im_/http://www.gizmag.com/images/icons/splashyIcons/image_modernist.png" alt=""/> <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/dukeuniversitymetamaterialsmanipulatelight/19444/picture/139363/">12 Pictures</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <center><a class="noback" href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/dukeuniversitymetamaterialsmanipulatelight/19444/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110815151409im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/duke.jpg" title="A fundamental property of metamaterials is the ability to produce negative refraction" alt="A fundamental property of metamaterials is the ability to produce negative refraction"/></a></center> <div class="summary"> <p>Duke University is on a roll, showing off yet another potentially game-changing property of the exotic man-made substances known as metamaterials. This time the property could have deep consequences for the transmission of information via light. Maybe the most important potential use of all. <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/dukeuniversitymetamaterialsmanipulatelight/19444/">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item "> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="sd_top"> </div> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/ieee-80222-standard-completed/19417/">IEEE 802.22 wireless network standard to offer 62 miles of range</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <p>By <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/author/pawel-piejko/" rel="author">Pawel Piejko</a></p> <p><em>08:17 August 3, 2011</em></p> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <p><img src="/web/20110815151409im_/http://www.gizmag.com/images/icons/splashyIcons/comments.png" alt=""/> <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/ieee-80222-standard-completed/19417/#comments">2 Comments</a> </p> <p></p> </div> </div> </div> <center><a class="noback" href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/ieee-80222-standard-completed/19417/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110815151409im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/ieee-80222-standard-completed.jpg" title="The IEEE has announced the completion of the IEEE 802.22 wireless network standard, which ..." alt="The IEEE has announced the completion of the IEEE 802.22 wireless network standard, which ..."/></a></center> <div class="summary"> <p>The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/ieee/" target="_blank">IEEE</a> (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has announced the completion of the IEEE 802.22 wireless network standard, which has been in the works since 2004. Utilizing unused white spaces between channels in the TV frequency spectrum, the 802.22 standard will serve Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRANs), which are meant to bring broadband access to sparsely populated rural areas, as well as to developing countries. <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/ieee-80222-standard-completed/19417/">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item "> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="sd_top"> </div> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/akamai-state-of-the-internet-report/19349/">State of the Internet report - Asia still fastest, new source of attack traffic emerges</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <p>By <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/author/darren-quick/" rel="author">Darren Quick</a></p> <p><em>02:47 July 27, 2011</em></p> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <p><img src="/web/20110815151409im_/http://www.gizmag.com/images/icons/splashyIcons/comments.png" alt=""/> <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/akamai-state-of-the-internet-report/19349/#comments">6 Comments</a> </p> <p><img src="/web/20110815151409im_/http://www.gizmag.com/images/icons/splashyIcons/image_modernist.png" alt=""/> <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/akamai-state-of-the-internet-report/19349/picture/138651/">35 Pictures</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <center><a class="noback" href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/akamai-state-of-the-internet-report/19349/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110815151409im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/akamaiq12011.jpg" title="Akamai's State of the Internet report provides a global snapshot of global Internet use" alt="Akamai's State of the Internet report provides a global snapshot of global Internet use"/></a></center> <div class="summary"> <p>Akamai might not be a household name but between 15 to 30 percent of the world’s Web traffic is carried on the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company’s Internet platform at any given time. Using data gathered by software constantly monitoring Internet conditions via the company’s nearly 100,000 servers deployed in 72 countries and spanning most of the networks within the Internet, Akamai creates its quarterly State of the Internet report. The report provides some interesting Internet-related facts and figures, such as regions with the slowest and fastest connection speeds, broadband adoption rates and the origins of attack traffic. <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/akamai-state-of-the-internet-report/19349/">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item "> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="sd_top"> </div> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/remote-augmented-reality-system-for-repairing-machines/19201/">AR system lets engineers show remote technicians what they're talking about</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <p>By <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/author/ben-coxworth/" rel="author">Ben Coxworth</a></p> <p><em>17:00 July 12, 2011</em></p> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <p></p> <p></p> </div> </div> </div> <center><a class="noback" href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/remote-augmented-reality-system-for-repairing-machines/19201/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110815151409im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/remotearsystem.jpg" title="A new augmented reality system allows engineers to provide visual instructions to remote t..." alt="A new augmented reality system allows engineers to provide visual instructions to remote t..."/></a></center> <div class="summary"> <p>It can be very frustrating trying to fix something, when the person instructing you isn’t there in person, but is instead communicating with you over a phone line – “Whaddaya mean, ‘The silver cap’? <em>Which</em> silver cap?!” This is why engineers sometimes need to be flown in to factories or other places that use complex machines, to make repairs that simply can’t be explained verbally. Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics, however, have developed an augmented reality system that lets those engineers provide real-time visual instructions to distant on-site technicians ... and it can be done without internet access. <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/remote-augmented-reality-system-for-repairing-machines/19201/">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item "> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="sd_top"> </div> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/sleepwell-wi-fi-system/19085/">SleepWell system puts mobile devices to sleep to conserve power while waiting on Wi-Fi</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <p>By <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/author/darren-quick/" rel="author">Darren Quick</a></p> <p><em>00:10 July 1, 2011</em></p> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <p><img src="/web/20110815151409im_/http://www.gizmag.com/images/icons/splashyIcons/comments.png" alt=""/> <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/sleepwell-wi-fi-system/19085/#comments">2 Comments</a> </p> <p><img src="/web/20110815151409im_/http://www.gizmag.com/images/icons/splashyIcons/image_modernist.png" alt=""/> <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/sleepwell-wi-fi-system/19085/picture/137034/">2 Pictures</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <center><a class="noback" href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/sleepwell-wi-fi-system/19085/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110815151409im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/sleepwell.jpg" title="Wi-Fi hotspots may be proliferating, but so are the devices that access them (Image: Flori..." alt="Wi-Fi hotspots may be proliferating, but so are the devices that access them (Image: Flori..."/></a></center> <div class="summary"> <p>Although the number of Wi-Fi hotspots has increased dramatically in most places over the past few years, the explosion in the number of smartphones and laptops attempting to make use of such connections means that getting decent download speeds is as difficult as it always was. Not only is this frustrating, it can also be a major drain on the batteries of mobile devices. In an effort to address one of these problems, a Duke University graduate student has developed software called SleepWell that allows mobile devices to take a nap to save power while they wait for their turn to download. <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/sleepwell-wi-fi-system/19085/">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item "> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="sd_top"> </div> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/urthecast-earth-video-platform/19020/">UrtheCast video platform will let users view Earth from space</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <p>By <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/author/pawel-piejko/" rel="author">Pawel Piejko</a></p> <p><em>11:16 June 24, 2011</em></p> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <p><img src="/web/20110815151409im_/http://www.gizmag.com/images/icons/splashyIcons/comments.png" alt=""/> <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/urthecast-earth-video-platform/19020/#comments">4 Comments</a> </p> <p></p> </div> </div> </div> <center><a class="noback" href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/urthecast-earth-video-platform/19020/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110815151409im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/urthecast-platform-4.jpg" title="UrtheCast is launching a streaming video platform of planet Earth, that will originate on ..." alt="UrtheCast is launching a streaming video platform of planet Earth, that will originate on ..."/></a></center> <div class="summary"> <p>Canadian-based company UrtheCast has announced a project intended to let a wider audience view the earth from space. A pair of cameras will be installed on the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/tag/international-space-station/" target="_blank">International Space Station</a>, recording videos and imagery of the planet. The project's aim is to create an internet-based video streaming platform, thus allowing for online viewing of the footage being recorded in space. It's "the world's first and only near real time high definition video from space," according to UrtheCast's website. <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/urthecast-earth-video-platform/19020/">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item "> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="sd_top"> </div> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/optical-amplifier-boosts-fiber-optics/19011/">Optical amplifier could quadruple the range of fiber optic signals</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <p>By <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/author/ben-coxworth/" rel="author">Ben Coxworth</a></p> <p><em>13:55 June 23, 2011</em></p> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <p><img src="/web/20110815151409im_/http://www.gizmag.com/images/icons/splashyIcons/comments.png" alt=""/> <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/optical-amplifier-boosts-fiber-optics/19011/#comments">2 Comments</a> </p> <p></p> </div> </div> </div> <center><a class="noback" href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/optical-amplifier-boosts-fiber-optics/19011/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110815151409im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/opticalamplifier.jpg" title="A newly-developed optical amplifier is said to allow fiber optic signals to travel four ti..." alt="A newly-developed optical amplifier is said to allow fiber optic signals to travel four ti..."/></a></center> <div class="summary"> <p>As the amount of information being electronically shuttled around the planet continues to grow, so does the need for effective means of relaying it. The use of optical fibers has definitely helped in that regard, although thanks to a recent breakthrough at Sweden’s Chalmers University of Technology, optical fiber signals may soon be able to travel four times farther than they are presently able to. Researchers there have created an optical amplifier, capable of amplifying light while maintaining a relatively noise-free signal. <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/optical-amplifier-boosts-fiber-optics/19011/">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item "> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="sd_top"> </div> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/firefighter-tracking-system/18969/">Improved tracking system being developed for firefighters</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <p>By <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/author/ben-coxworth/" rel="author">Ben Coxworth</a></p> <p><em>15:08 June 20, 2011</em></p> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <p></p> <p></p> </div> </div> </div> <center><a class="noback" href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/firefighter-tracking-system/18969/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110815151409im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/firefightertracking.jpg" title="The WISPER routers (top left), the WISPER dispenser (middle) and base station modules (bot..." alt="The WISPER routers (top left), the WISPER dispenser (middle) and base station modules (bot..."/></a></center> <div class="summary"> <p>Even though firefighting is one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, firefighters still communicate using analog radio signals, that can be blocked by concrete walls. This means that, upon venturing into a burning building, a firefighter might have no way of letting their commander know their present location – a situation that could prove deadly, if they ended up trapped or injured. In order to address the situation, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate has created a new three-part system that lets fire crews keep track of the location and well-being of every member of their team, all the time. <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/firefighter-tracking-system/18969/">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div class="summary_item "> <div class="summary_details"> <div class="sd_top"> </div> <div class="clear_both"> <h2><a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/eutelsat-new-broadband-satellite/18822/">New KA-SAT broadband satellite goes live over Europe</a></h2> <div class="summary_details_left"> <p>By <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/author/paul-ridden/" rel="author">Paul Ridden</a></p> <p><em>18:16 June 6, 2011</em></p> </div> <div class="summary_details_right"> <p><img src="/web/20110815151409im_/http://www.gizmag.com/images/icons/splashyIcons/comments.png" alt=""/> <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/eutelsat-new-broadband-satellite/18822/#comments">5 Comments</a> </p> <p><img src="/web/20110815151409im_/http://www.gizmag.com/images/icons/splashyIcons/image_modernist.png" alt=""/> <a href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/eutelsat-new-broadband-satellite/18822/picture/135381/">4 Pictures</a></p> </div> </div> </div> <center><a class="noback" href="/web/20110815151409/http://www.gizmag.com/eutelsat-new-broadband-satellite/18822/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20110815151409im_/http://images.gizmag.com/hero/kasat.jpg" title="Eutelsat has announced that its new KA-SAT broadband satellite has now gone into service, ..." alt="Eutelsat has announced that its new KA-SAT broadband satellite has now gone into service, ..."/></a></center> <div class="summary"> <p>Happily, the days of painfully slow dial-up internet speeds are now but a distant memory to many city and town dwelling broadband users throughout Europe. 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