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Japanese Researchers Shatter Wi-Fi World Record

LE JOURNAL DU GEEK (France)

TOKYO- Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have broken the record for the world's fastest Wi-Fi.

Using a 542GHz wireless connection in the 300GHz-3THz spectrum, they achieved speeds of 3Gpbs, reports Le Journal du Geek. If that's a little too technical for you, what you need to know is that 3Gb/s is about 20 times faster than the fastest Wi-Fi connections that are available today.

Will we be able to benefit from this super fast Wi-Fi in the next few years? Definitely!

According to the Tokyo Institute of Technology project leader, Dr Suzuki Safumi, "everybody will use products related to THz (Terahertz) technology within the next decade."

Last December, AT&T called Terahertz technology the "next frontier" for radio transmissions.

Read the original article in French.

Coming soon to a mobile phone near you: superfast Wi-Fi!
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FOCUS: Russia-Ukraine War

Ukrainians In Occupied Territories Are Being Forced To Get Russian Passports

Reports have emerged of children, retirees, and workers being forced by the Russian military and occupying administration to obtain Russian Federation passports, or face prison, beating or loss of public benefits.

Image of a hand holding a red Russian passport.

Russian passport

Iryna Gamaliy

It's referred to as: "forced passportization." Reports are accumulating of police and local authorities in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine requiring that locals obtain Russian passports. Now new evidence has emerged that Ukrainians are indeed being coerced into changing their citizenship, or risk retribution from occupying authorities.

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Ever since late September, when President Vladimir Putin announced Russia hadd unilaterally annexed four regions in eastern and southern Ukraine (Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson), Moscow has been seeking ways to legitimize the unrecognized annexation. The spreading of Russian passports is seen as an attempt to demonstrate that there is support among the Ukrainian population to be part of Russia.

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