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iTWire – Announcing Humboldt – the first Internet cable route between Asia Pacific and South America

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iTWire – Announcing Humboldt – the first Internet cable route between Asia Pacific and South America

Google, Desarrollo País of Chile, and the Office of Posts and Telecommunications of French Polynesia (OPT), have announced Humboldt, a subsea cable route linking Australia, French Polynesia, and Chile, strengthening the reliability and resilience of digital connectivity across the Pacific. The network protocols driving the Internet work on routing packets of data through many interconnected paths …

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A ‘Large Earth Finder’ to be Installed in a Newly-Built $1 Billion Telescope

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A ‘Large Earth Finder’ to be Installed in a Newly-Built Billion Telescope

The Giant Magellan Telescope, currently under construction at the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, is one of a handful of “extremely large” ground-based telescopes that promise to revolutionize astrophysics. Comprised of seven individual mirrors, each 27.6 feet in diameter, the telescope will have a joint collecting area of 80 feet and the best image quality …

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