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10 Feb 2025 — 4 min read

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Last night, the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 in Super Bowl LIX at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. The Eagles established an early lead, going up 24-0 by halftime, and maintained control throughout the game. This win marks their second Super Bowl title and ends the Chiefs’ bid for a third consecutive championship.

The Super Bowl remains one of the most-watched events in the United States, with viewership regularly exceeding 100 million. While final numbers are pending, last year’s game drew over 123 million viewers, and this year’s matchup likely saw similar figures.

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T-Mobile and SpaceX have partnered to connect Starlink satellites directly to cell phones, eliminating dead zones by allowing regular smartphones to link with satellites instead of relying only on cell towers. The service, currently in testing, will start with texting and later expand to calls and data. This is a major improvement over traditional cell towers, which require expensive infrastructure and struggle to cover remote areas. By using low Earth orbit satellites, the partnership ensures wider, more reliable coverage, especially in places where building towers isn’t practical.

SpaceX currently has the largest satellite constellation on Earth, with over 7,000 Starlink satellites and counting. This makes it a major threat to traditional telecommunications companies, which have long relied on aging infrastructure and a small number of satellites that can’t compete with Starlink’s global reach. Since SpaceX can provide the next-generation communication infrastructure for Earth, telecom companies risk becoming obsolete, which is why many are now partnering with Starlink instead of competing against it.
Without these partnerships, they would struggle to keep up in a world where internet access is no longer dependent on cell towers and fiber-optic cables. Starlink’s satellite network eliminates dead zones, ensuring that people in remote locations—whether in the middle of the ocean, a desert, or a mountain range—can stay connected. This is the future of communication, where space-based infrastructure replaces traditional networks. Below, you can see a live satellite map of all active Starlink satellites, forming a global space shield of connectivity.
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On February 5, 2025, researchers at the University of Oxford made a major breakthrough by successfully connecting two quantum processors. They used a special photonic network that allowed the processors to share information through quantum entanglement, making them function as a single system. This method, called quantum teleportation, could help make quantum computers more powerful by allowing multiple modules to work together, solving one of the biggest challenges in scaling quantum computing.

Similarly, engineers at Northwestern University successfully transmitted quantum information over standard fiber optic cables while also carrying regular internet traffic. They achieved this by carefully selecting wavelengths and using advanced filters to prevent interference between quantum and classical data. This breakthrough shows that quantum communication can work alongside today’s internet infrastructure, bringing us closer to a future quantum internet that could improve security and data transmission.
One of the main reasons quantum computers are not yet fully developed or integrated is that they cannot easily communicate with traditional computers or process internet data. Classical computers use binary bits (0s and 1s), which store information as either one state or the other. In contrast, quantum computers use qubits, which can exist in both 0 and 1 states simultaneously due to a property called superposition. This fundamental difference makes it difficult for quantum systems to interact with classical infrastructure, and the internet is not yet designed to handle quantum data. However, with these recent breakthroughs, scientists are getting closer to bridging this gap. Once quantum computers can work alongside traditional systems and interact with the internet, it will transform computing, security, and communication worldwide.

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