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Engadget Live heads to Austin on Friday!

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This Friday, October 16th at 7PM, we're heading back to Austin, TX, for our second-to-last Engadget Live event of the year! We're taking over the Austin Music Hall to bring together gadget lovers (like you!) for a night you won't want to miss. Tick...

Engadget Live is coming to Austin next Friday!

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We're excited to be returning to Austin, TX, one of our favorite cities, on October 16th at 7PM for our third Engadget Live event of the year! We'll take over Austin Music Hall and bring together gadget lovers and tech companies for a night you don...

Corning Fibrance Light-diffusing Optical Fiber: Fery Impressife

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These days, Corning is best known for its Gorilla Glass, which protects millions of smartphones and other devices. But the glass and ceramics specialist also knows a thing or two about decorative items. It recently unveiled Fibrance, a light-diffusing glass optical fiber made that’s thin, flexible and discreet.

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Watch and dream of how Fibrance will make it easy to TRONify all the things:

Corning should also make a thick and sturdy version, a lightfaber if you will.

[Corning via Ubergizmo]

Demand For Larger Screen Size To Drive Corning’s Display Technology Business In 2014

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Corning’s revenues from its display business are expected to increase in the coming year driven by growing demand for larger displays in TVs, mobile devices and tablets. Revenues from its display...
    






Intel teases MXC: a 1.6Tbps optical interconnect for servers

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Intel teases MXC a 16Tbps, optical interconnect for servers

While we think of optical connections as cutting edge, they're positively decrepit in server rooms; current fiber interconnect technology got its start in the 1980s. Intel may soon drag servers into the modern era with its just-teased MXC format, however. The standard (not pictured here) will combine both silicon photonics and a new form of Corning fiber to link servers at 1.6Tbps -- more than quick enough to eliminate many data bottlenecks. The connectors themselves are smaller, too. Intel won't say more about MXC until the Intel Developer Forum next month in San Francisco, but we already suspect that supercomputer operators will be happy with all that extra bandwidth.

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Via: PCWorld

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Corning introduces Gorilla Glass NBT for touch-enabled laptops, coming this fall

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DNP Corning introduces Gorilla Glass NBT for touchbased laptops, available this fall

While we love our gadgets for their glass-capacitive touchscreens, they can be sensitive to scratches and fingerprints. Corning, best known for protecting our phone and tablet displays, is introducing Gorilla Glass NBT for touch-enabled laptops. This new ultra-strong covering promises enhanced scratch resistance, reduced flaw visibility and better retained strength once a blemish occurs -- basically, the same benefits as GG3. Dell is the first manufacturer to jump on-board with NBT and plans to use it on some notebooks this fall. Does this mean you wont have to be nearly as careful when schlepping your computer in a messenger bag? Probably not, but at least your precious displays will be safer from errant kitty paws. PR after the break.

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Corning’s Gorilla Glass might be key to quiet, fuel-efficient cars

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EDIT Gorilla Glass on yo car, furreal

Corning's Gorilla Glass might soon step out of its phone- and tablet-filled lifestyle to explore a bigger part of the jungle. The material -- used thus far to make a plethora of scratch-resistant mobile device screens -- could replace some of the standard glass on car windows, according to company Senior VP Jeffrey Evenson. Speaking at MIT Technology Review's Mobile Summit, Evenson says Gorilla Glass will reduce a vehicle's weight and lower its center of mass. Theoretically, that means you could get better gas mileage than you would with a ride outfitted with run-of-the-mill glass. In addition, the material also acts as a noise filter, making car cabins quieter. Considering that auto manufacturers are striving to push the fuel-efficiency envelope, these claims sound like they could pan out. If you're a see-it-to-believe-it type though, you can always wait for the first cars with Gorilla Glass windows. Evenson didn't name a particular client, but he expects at least one high-end auto maker to start selling them within the next year.

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Source: MIT Technology Review

Corning’s Gorilla Glass now used in more than 1.5 billion devices

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Behind the huge success of Samsung's Galaxy devices lies a secret - Gorilla Glass. Without it, we wouldn't be seeing Galaxies outlasting drop tests, and even hammer tests. The genius behind the glass...
    


Corning intros Lotus XT Glass for next-gen mobile displays, touts more efficient production (video)

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Corning Lotus XT Glass allows for widespread nextgen mobile displays video

Corning's Lotus Glass promised a world full of thinner, more advanced mobile displays when it was unveiled in 2011, but it hasn't always been easy to build with the volumes or features that customers want. Enter the company's new Lotus XT Glass as the solution: clients can produce it more reliably at high temperatures, leading to more usable panels for our LCDs and OLEDs. The improved yields should not only result in larger device volumes than the original Lotus Glass could muster, but push the technological limits -- Corning notes that hotter manufacturing allows for brighter, sharper and more efficient screens. The glass is commercially available today, although we'll still need to wait for gadget makers to choose, implement and ship it before we notice the XT difference.

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Source: Corning