Even with fast personal computers, Internet goodies such as videos and podcasts often download at sluggish speeds. Now, an advance in laser technology promises to eliminate those and other nagging computer delays, its developers say.
LASER LINEUP. Researchers have developed a new kind of tiny laser, more than 30 of which huddle side by side along this silicon bar (gold).
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