The Weekly Weird - 2015-02-20

Kind of lame this week, sorry.

• Fiberless fiberoptics at eleventy billion terabits per femtosecond: http://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/semiconductors/optoelectronics/fiber-to-the-living-room
• But that's not awesome enough for the datacenter where clearly we need 60ghz wifi: https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall12/cos561/papers/wirelessDC-ancs12.pdf
• I think nobody expected the robot apocalypse to start with smoke detectors: http://bgr.com/2015/02/18/google-nest-smoke-alarm-video/
• I can't even crack a joke about this Lenovo nonsense: https://infected.io/120/lenovos-superfish-security-nightmare
• Limpet is just a fun word: http://news.sciencemag.org/plants-animals/2015/02/spider-silk-dethroned-nature-s-toughest-fiber