Are we ready for an underwater power line in the Columbia River?
Imagine a six-inch-thick, high-voltage electricity transmission line running underwater on the bottom of the Columbia River, ...
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 ...
TRAI chief calls for 10x expansion of India’s subsea cable infra to meet surging data demand
TRAI chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti suggested that recent subsea cable disruptions in the Red Sea underscore the need to ...
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 ...
India’s subsea cable infra must grow 10x to meet data consumption needs, says TRAI chief
TRAI chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti suggested that recent subsea cable disruptions in the Red Sea underscore the need to ...
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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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PLDT launches Apricot subsea cable landing station in Digos, Philippines
Philippine telco PLDT has launched a cable landing station in Digos, Davao del Sur. As part of an effort to expand ...
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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.
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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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Mapping Ocean Floor Mysteries, NASA’s SWOT Satellite Unveils Earth’s Hidden Terrain Beneath the Waves
NASA and the French space agency CNES's SWOT satellite provides researchers with the tools to create the most accurate ocean maps yet.
Much of what lies on the seafloor remains a mystery. NASA is fixing that.
Experts have been working on mapping the ocean floor with traditional methods, sending ships across the water with sonar ...