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Anti-hacker USB-C cables are just snake oil, here's all you have to do instead

You may have seen anti-hacker or privacy cables floating around, but you shouldn't give them your money. Here's what you need ...
IEEE

Design and Control of a Cable-Driven Articulated Modular Snake Robot

Abstract: This paper presents the design and control of a cable-actuated mobile snake robot composed of modular coupled linkages. The goal of this research is to reduce the size of snake robots and ...
IEEE

Modeling and Simulation of thermomechanical characteristics of cable structure layer under snake laying

Abstract: In this paper, the electrothermal finite element model of snake laying is established, and the electrothermal characteristics of steady-state and periodic load under the condition of snake ...
ecoustics

AudioQuest’s Lone Ranger ZERO-Tech Speaker Cable: The Myth, the Marketing, and the Snake Oil It Shot Dead?

AudioQuest’s Lone Ranger ZERO-Tech speaker cable ($2,990 for 8 ft pair) blends Folk Hero design with advanced noise-dissipation and PSC+ conductors. At 11.6mm per polarity, it’s a slimmer, friendlier ...
PC Magazine

When a Volcano Cut This Country's Fragile Internet Cable, Life Snapped Back to 1880

Seafloor Garden Hoses, With Way Too Much Power About the size of a garden hose, subsea cables snake along the seafloor, transporting 95% to 99% of internet traffic, depending on the estimate. They ...