Sex and recombination are pervasive throughout nature despite their substantial costs. Understanding the evolutionary forces that maintain these phenomena is a central challenge in biology. One longstanding hypothesis argues that sex is beneficial because recombination speeds adaptation. Theory has proposed several distinct population genetic mechanisms that could underlie this advantage. For example, sex can promote the fixation of beneficial mutations either by alleviating interference...
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Grass greener, Internet faster? Why Seattle is mapping broadband speeds across the city
The City of Seattle has announced an online broadband speed test that will create a map of internet speeds and prices across different Seattle neighborhoods. Using the map, city residents will be able compare their Internet plans to...
NY requires 300Mbps speeds from Charter in TWC merger condition
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Charter gained approval of its Time Warner Cable acquisition from New York state regulators today in exchange for providing 300Mbps speeds to all customers by 2019 and continuation of a cheap (but very slow) entry-level Internet service.
The state Public Service Commission voted 3-0 to approve the merger today, the Times Union of Albany reported....
Comcast slowly rolls out DOCSIS 3.1 for 1Gbps speeds over cable infrastructure
Getting the fastest internet speed available typically requires fiber optic cables that transmit data with pulses of light, which can require digging up streets and yards to lay fiber. But Comcast is rolling out a new standard that uses existing cables to bring fiber-like speeds to everyday customers,...