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Tweet Facebook has announced plans to expand its operations in London’s King’s Cross. After the proposed buildings go up, the firm will be able to host 6,000 employees. They should be built by 2021. Read more… Neowin

Tweet Samsung’s Galaxy S8 and S8+ have been well documented over the past couple months with new leaks springing daily. Now, we get to see an alleged image of the handsets’ battery packs. Read more… Neowin

Tweet There are only a couple weeks left until the unveiling of the LG G6 and a new tidbit of information gives us a clue about its increased battery capacity. The LG G6 will debut at MWC on February 26. Read more… Neowin

Tweet The UK-based ISP, TalkTalk, has upped its core network capacity by 200Gbps, including 100Gbps specifically for the load expected from users viewing the new show, The Grand Tour. Read more… Neowin

Tweet People have been messing around with this in the labs but now it’s real and in the field: Alcatel-Lucent and France Telecom-Orange have deployed a long-distance terrestrial 400 Gbps optical fiber link that, as it uses 44 such wavelengths, can carry a whopping 17.6 terabits per second (Tbps) of traffic in aggregate. Why is this important? Because telecoms operators’ networks are always facing a capacity crunch, mainly thanks to…