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Teleportation: Why Star Trek will kill FedEx

We have previously shown that for transferring large amounts of data, overnight delivery by FedEx is faster than using the internet. However, FedEx may be getting some serious competition in the near future: teleportation. It sounds very Star Trek, but scientists are working hard to make it a reality, and the results would apparently be [...]

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FedEx still faster than the internet

When you need to transfer very large amounts of data over the internet, sooner or later you will hit a limit where it will actually be faster to send that data on disks over regular mail (often called sneakernet). Internet transfer rates are simply not enough for large data sets. Imagine a company with two [...]

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