Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Special ships lay data cables across the world's oceans. Stefan Sauer/picture alliance via Getty Images Have you ever wondered how ...

Few parts of the Earth remain unconnected. By this, I mean that fewer and fewer corners of the globe exist without some sort of internet or digital connectivity. Quality and consistency obviously vary ...

Most of us imagine the internet as something invisible, data flying through the air from our phones to the cloud and back. But the truth is far less glamorous and far more physical: over 95% of global ...

Laid on the seabed, subsea cables form the backbone of the world's internet, transmitting 99% of international data traffic.

On July 9, 2015 a typhoon ripped through the Pacific Ocean, causing severe damage to an undersea cable that carried Internet to the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. territory and popular vacation ...

There are now over 500 commercial submarine cables worldwide, and despite being roughly the width of a garden hose, they stretch an astonishing 1.7 million kilometres.

Plans to construct several new fiber-optic internet subsea cables that will improve Hawaii’s internet reliability and connectivity were announced Tuesday by Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke and Benji Robinson, ...

U.S.-Chinese tensions surrounding technology have have sunk to sea lows. Stream Los Angeles News for free, 24/7, wherever you are. Subsea cables hit the headlines earlier this year after four out of ...

Google has announced plans to build a new network of high-capacity subsea cables and fiber-optic routes connecting India with ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Robin Chataut, Quinnipiac University (THE CONVERSATION) Have you ever wondered how an ...