PCI EXPRESS CABLE TO HIT 32Gbps BY 2013

Thought Thunderbolt (the data cable, not the phone) was the only superfast interconnect in town? Well, it is and will be for a little while yet, but the PCI Special Interest Group has just held its annual meeting and developer conference in California, where plans for a 32Gbps PCIe cable were revealed. Details are still fluid on precisely what such a connector would look like and do, but the expectation is that it'll be built out of copper wire, will be flatter and thinner than Thunderbolt's rotund construction, and will be able to channel power as well as data through to devices up to 10 feet (3m) away.

Targeting consumer applications, and extra skinny tablets and laptops in particular, this cabled variety of PCI Express will start off based on the 3.0 spec in 2013, but will then move on from there to PCI Express 4.0 and, potentially, optical data conveyance. Oh yes, PCIe 4.0 also got announced by the PCI SIG, though that's at least four years away at this point

FIRST LIGHT WAVE TELEPORTATION ACHIEVED; ULTRA FAST DATA TRANSMISSION INCHES CLOSER

A team of scientists from Australia and Japan have successfully transferred a complex set of quantum data in light form. Previously researchers had struggled with slow performance or loss of information, but with full transmission integrity achieved (as in blocks of qubits being destroyed in one place but instantaneously resurrected in another, without affecting their superpositions) we're now one huge step closer to secure, high-speed quantum communication. Needless to say, this will also be a big boost for the development of powerful quantum computing