Scientists Twist Radio Beams To Send Data At 32 Gigabits Per Second

concertina226 writes Scientists from three international universities have succeeded in twisting radio beams in order to transfer data at the speed of 32 gigabits per second, which is 30 times faster than 4G LTE wireless technology in use today. The researchers, led by Alan Willner, an electrical engineering professor with the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering, successfully demonstrated data transmission rates of 32 gigabits per second across 2.5m of free space in a basement laboratory.

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WTF? It is not a slow news day

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Did all the real mods get fired, or did they all just take a PTO day at the same time? Maybe Dice is facing too much pressure from big business and the Government, so we can't get discussion worthy topics on the main page? With all of the other submissions in queue I really don't get it. I guess this one is not as bad as the crappy robot video story, but neither of them are worthy of the main page.

This and this story may at least generate some dialogue.