Colum McCann on Undersea Cables and His New N...

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Keza MacDonald, the video games editor at The Guardian and author of the new book “Super Nintendo: The Game-Changing Company That Unlocked the Power of Play,” chose to write her first book about Nintendo because it has been so central for so long to the culture of games. “It was ...  Show more

Today, we look at the rescue operation following the sinking of a luxury yacht off the coast off Sicily.Six people are still missing, including British tech tycoon Mike Lynch, after the Bayesian sank on Monday. Why are rescue divers struggling to reach the yacht’s cabins? What fr ...  Show more

What powers the global internet? The answer might surprise you: not satellites, but hundreds of thin cables that run along the ocean floor. They’re an absolutely essential technology that’s also incredibly fragile — so fragile that in the beginning, most people thought they could ...  Show more

Alex Schmidt is joined by bestselling author Jason Pargin (new novel "If This Book Exists, You’re In The Wrong Universe") for a look at why undersea cables are secretly incredibly fascinating.

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In a week in which the security of internet communications is in the spotlight, a new novel captures the murky world of undersea internet cables: essential, indispensable and incredibly vulnerable. Author Colum McCann captures the real-world drama in his highly anticipated new bo ...  Show more