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Twisted light could dramatically boost internet speeds

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imageA new development could mean vastly increase data transfer over optical fibre cables.Shutterstock

Fibre optics allow for the communication of data at the speed of light.

But the amount of data that can be sent along any optic fibre is limited by how much information you can encode into the light wave travelling through it.

Currently, optic fibre...

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Politics podcast: Peter Whish-Wilson on the need for a royal commission into banks

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The global scandal surrounding the release of the Panama papers and Malcolm Turnbull’s criticism of Australian banks have put the spotlight on the often murky world of banking and finance. Greens finance spokesman Peter Whish-Wilson, who had a pre-parliamentary career on Wall Street, tells Michelle Grattan one reason he walked away from the...

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