It’s no metaphor — undersea cables hold together our precarious modern life
The Elon Musks of the world might want us to believe that Starlink is the true wave of the future, but we will be using ...
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China just unveiled a deep-sea tool that can secretly cut the world’s internet cables
To overcome this, Hu’s team crafted a specialized diamond-coated grinding wheel. Spinning at 1,600 revolutions per minute, ...
China develops deep-sea cable-cutting device with global implications
The device integrates seamlessly with China's advanced crewed and uncrewed submersibles, such as the Fendouzhe and Haidou ...
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Meta's undersea cable to be longer than the Earth is round
Meta (formerly Facebook) plans to build the world's longest undersea cable that will be longer than ... vast network of cables running across every sea that are far from being marginal, carrying ...
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When cables break under the sea, a wireless world’s vulnerability is exposed
Coiled in its belly were miles of replacement cable and heavy rope. Steel grapnels were fastened to lengths of chain that would be dragged along the sea bottom to snag broken cables and haul them ...