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As part of its Smart+Connected Communities initiative, Cisco has announced a series of safety and security product innovations to help cities, enterprises, small businesses and partners transform the way they protect people, property and critical infrastructure. The innovations include enhancements to several Cisco services designed to help customers transition
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Six companies that own and operate some of the largest networks in the world have formed the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), a nonprofit organisation dedicated to promoting a new approach to networking called Software-Defined Networking (SDN). The founding companies are Deutsche Telekom, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, and Yahoo! Joining them
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Which came first: the Japanese rail system or the slime mould? It’s not as ridiculous a question as you might think. In fact, a team of Japanese and British researchers have found that the lowly Physarum polycephalum — described as a “gelatinous fungus-like mould” (yum) — can create a complex and
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The networks of underwater communications cables that stretch across our oceans could have another valuable purpose … as an early-warning system for tsunamis. US researchers report that tsunamis generate electric fields as moving saltwater — a good conductor of electricity — interacts with the Earth’s geomagnetic field. That electricity can apparently be
