Jul 18, 2026
The Cables Under the Sea
Nearly all intercontinental data travels on cables lying on the seabed. How they work, who owns them, and which small islands depend on them most.
Jul 18, 2026
Nearly all intercontinental data travels on cables lying on the seabed. How they work, who owns them, and which small islands depend on them most.
Jul 10, 2026
Wireless gets the headlines, but nearly every connection ends up on glass. Why fiber is still the foundation of everything else.
Jul 2, 2026
A sports stream can lag by half a minute and nobody minds much. A live blackjack table cannot. Why casino studios need a different kind of video network.
Jun 24, 2026
The 2015 pitch contest is long over, but the questions judges asked still apply. Why telecom startups are hard, and how to think about the odds.
Jun 16, 2026
Satellite broadband barely registered on the 2015 agenda. Now it reaches ships, planes and even ordinary phones. Here is what the physics allows.
Jun 8, 2026
A slot machine looks like a stand-alone box. It is really a networked terminal reporting to several systems at once. A tour of the plumbing.
May 31, 2026
The out-of-sight layer of the internet: cloud, content delivery networks, edge computing and the energy bill behind it all.
May 23, 2026
One global effort to build an interoperable standard for machine-to-machine communication and the Internet of Things, and what it actually specifies.
May 15, 2026
Cross a state line and your betting app may stop working. The location checks behind that are a small masterclass in mobile positioning.