“the russians have rediscovered the art of dragging the seabed for cables and cutting them”

In January 2022, a volcanic eruption ripped apart the underwater cables that connect the Pacific island of Tonga to the world. At a stroke, the country was plunged into the kind of isolation it hadn’t experienced in more than a century.

It’s been quite a bitty month. The trip to Berlin for IFA (see issue 374, p26) put a small crater in my workflow, so I’ve been busy catching up with various projects to ensure they’re delivered on tim

Technology has transformed sailing, but was the past better or worse? Andy Du Port shares his views

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TYLER NORRIS SPEAKS JUST AS YOU might expect a renewable-power developer turned academic would talk. Phrases like maximum nameplate capacity and new load integration glide off the tongue. He delves in

Monday 20 October was all set to be another busy day online, with trillions of clicks, searches and transactions. But a problem was developing in one of Amazon’s huge US data centres in northern Virgi