#facebook lasers

Mark Zuckerberg has announced that Facebook's Connectivity Lab is developing a laser communications system that will be used as a new way to connect people to the internet. Facebook Connectivity Lab calls it the Free Space Optical communication, or FSO, which is a way of using light to transmit data through space and then bounce it back to Earth with the help of laser-equipped satellites. The laser beams which are in the infrared part of the spectrum are basically invisible but for the sake of demonstration Facebook made them visible as you can see in the photos. The lasers used in FSO systems provide extremely high bandwidths and capacity, on par with terrestrial fiber optic networks, but they also consume much less power than microwave systems. Because you can make the beam so much narrower, this allows you to focus all of your power exactly where you want it to go." sources: Facebook, Internet.org Facebook is launching a new game, Your Profile, Your Home where users can build their own virtual home on Facebook and learn how to personalize their account based on their preferences. Through the game users can learn more about the settings of Facebook such as Privacy settings, Advertiser preferences, and security settings. Read more in our articles including "Facebook is developing lasers for internet connectivity" and "Facebook launches Your Profile, Your Home game".