History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks.

Forecasting earthquakes presents a serious challenge on land, but in the oceans that cover around 70% of Earth's surface it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and unspooled over a mile of fibre optic ...

A Chinese-backed submarine cable project triggered a diplomatic dispute and unprecedented political rift in Chile before the ...

Underwater cables are the unsung heroes of the digital age, forming the backbone of the global internet and supporting the burgeoning demands of artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure. As AI ...

Chinese researchers have unveiled a new deep-sea tool capable of cutting through the world’s most secure subsea cables − and it has many in the West feeling a little jittery. The development, first ...

US national security officials have reportedly warned Google, Meta and other firms that their undersea internet cables could be at risk of tampering by China-controlled repair ships. The concerns are ...

TAT-8 was the eighth Trans-Atlantic Telephone system and the first to replace copper transmission with single-mode optical fiber between the United States, the United Kingdom, and ...

Crew transfer fiber onto a vessel bound for Northwest Alaska in 2023. (GCI) After more than two years of planning, branching underwater internet cables have reached their resting place on the seafloor ...

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Even though we're living in 2013 and can stream entire seasons of TV shows in between banking and sending work emails on our phone alone, sending data around the world is not exactly an easy feat. The ...

As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and unspooled over a mile of fibre optic cable into the frigid waters of the Salish Sea. Working by headlamp, they ...