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BookStack is basically a wiki for your homelab. It’s designed to be 100% self-hosted, and you can even open it up with a reverse proxy to the web if you want others to be able to access your wiki too.

Optical computing has emerged as a powerful approach for high-speed and energy-efficient information processing. Diffractive ...

A team of researchers at Penn State have devised a new, streamlined approach to designing metasurfaces, a class of engineered ...

You are watching a long-standing assumption in physics and engineering quietly fall apart. Researchers at Northwestern ...

A further benefit is that the channels can be multiplexed, allowing many quantum processors to access the system at the same ...

Researchers have developed a fiber neural network system that performs intelligent processing of optical communication signals directly in the light domain. This approach integrates optical ...

Ciena has established itself as a leading innovator in the optical equipment industry. With a portfolio of first-to-market applications, such as its 1.6 terabit per second WaveLogic 6 Extreme optical ...

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is testing a new approach to transmission line monitoring that uses the utility’s existing fiber optic network to gather real-time data across challenging ...

A simple light-based method is uncovering hidden fiber networks inside the brain and body, even in tissue slides over 100 years old.