These markers identify fiber-optic cables buried deep in the ground. They're part of a $36 million network that a local telecommunications company started building almost a decade ago. Fiber-optic ...

Computer science Professor Paul Barford and a team of researchers published the first publicly available map of the US's long-haul fiber-optic cable network. It took the team nearly four years to ...

These systems rely on quantum bits, or qubits, which can be created using atoms, superconductors, or defects in materials ...