{
  "id": 19339631,
  "title": "Data link trial: Chinese team finds hollow-core fibre cuts lag 30% across 1,000km",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/10/data-link-trial-chinese-team-finds-hollow-core-fibre-cuts-lag-30-19339631",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-10T13:00:28.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3373956/data-link-trial-chinese-team-finds-hollow-core-fibre-cuts-lag-30-across-1000km"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Light travels through conventional optical fibres at about 200,000km per second – about two-thirds the speed it travels in a vacuum – because the signals are passing through solid glass. When vast amounts of data are exchanged between computing centres hundreds or thousands of kilometres apart, this difference amounts to a substantial delay. Now, Chinese researchers have unveiled optical fibre…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}