This Week's Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 22)

Chip Can Transmit All of the Internet's Traffic Every Second Matthew Sparkes New Scientist "A single computer chip has transmitted a record 1.84 petabits of data per second via a fiber-optic cable--enough bandwidth to download 230 million photographs in that time, and more traffic than travels through the entire internet's backbone network per second. It just goes to show that we can go so much further than we are today with internet connections,' said [Asbjørn Arvad Jørgensen]." Physicists Got a Quantum Computer to Work by Blasting It With the Fibonacci Sequence Isaac Schultz Gizmodo "In the recent research, pulsing a laser periodically at the 10 ytterbium qubits kept them in a quantum state--meaning entangled--for 1.5 seconds. But when the researchers pulsed the lasers in the pattern of the Fibonacci sequence, they found that the qubits on the edge of the system remained in a quantum state for about 5.5 seconds, the entire length of the experiment (the qubits could have remained in a quantum state for longer, but the team ended the experiment at the 5.5-second mark)." Technology That Lets Us'Speak' to Our Dead Relatives Has Arrived. Charlotte Jee MIT Technology Review "From what I could glean over a dozen conversations with my virtually deceased parents, this really will make it easier to keep close the people we love.