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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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 ...
‘Invasion’ barges and deep-sea cable cutters: why new Chinese maritime tech is spooking defense watchers
From a chain of massive barges stretching from a Chinese beach into the sea, to a powerful new design for cutting undersea ...
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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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Chunghwa Telecom partners with global carriers to build Pacific submarine cable
Chunghwa Telecom announced it will join forces with SK Broadband, SoftBank, and Verizon to construct a new 12,500-kilometer ...
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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 ...
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This AP map shows sabotage across Europe that has been blamed on Russia and its proxies
Western officials have accused Russia and its proxies of staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since the invasion of Ukraine three years ago, according to data collected by The A ...
First earthquakes detected in Pacific Ocean using ultra-stable optical interferometry on undersea cables
NPL and MSL in New Zealand successfully detected a multitude of earthquakes in the Pacific Ocean using a pioneering detection ...
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Next-generation water satellite maps seafloor from space
More accurate maps of the ocean floor are crucial for a range of seafaring activities, including navigation and laying underwater communications cables. "Seafloor mapping ... for an improved ...