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 ...
ZME Science on MSN5d
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, ...
ZME Science on MSN6d
New NASA satellite mapped the oceans like never before
Until now, only about a quarter of the seafloor has been mapped using ships with special sonar equipment. The rest has ...
Royal Navy shadow spy ship which can snoop on the UK from 20 miles at sea
The Russian spy ship Admiral Vladimirskiy is bristling with linguists and surveillance equipment and can eavesdrop on UK ...
IEEE Spectrum on MSN6d
Meta’s Intercontinental Cable Will Try to Dodge Danger
When Meta announced its plans for a vast new fiber optic network covering 50,000 kilometers and linking five continents last month, the company’s selling point was cutting-edge undersea cable tech.
Daily Express US on MSN1d
WW3: New poll lays bare growing US fear over all-out attack by China or Russia
A new poll from the Democracy Institute for Daily Express US reveals how Americans feel about the threat of World War Three.
The Indian Express2d
TRAI chief calls for 10x expansion of India’s subsea cable infra to meet surging data demand
Highlighting that India’s existing submarine ... the map, Project Waterworth is really centered on India. It is a W shape and that center key of the W is in India with landing stations on both east ...
G News Network2d
Watch this ultra-detailed animation of the seafloor
The world has a more detailed map of the seafloor than ever before thanks to observations taken from space. NASA published a ...
Global Investigative Journalism Network2d
COVID-19’s Impact Five Years On, Chinese Harassment of Taiwan, Peruvian Political Fortunes, and 75 Years of Formula 1
Also this week, a visual narrative on the 30th anniversary of the Tokyo subway sarin gas attack, a special feature on Ramadan ...
The Guam Daily Post6d
Greenland is hard to defend. As Trump threatens, the Danes are trying
COPENHAGEN - One way or another, President Donald Trump has said, the United States needs to "get" Greenland - not just to ...
Los Angeles Times2d
It’s no metaphor — undersea cables hold together our precarious modern life
I stumbled upon a story about a cable repair vessel, the Leon Thevenin, which had attended to a cable break off the west coast of Africa. The cable, which had broken deep at sea, had caused an ...