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

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Here we are in mid-December, which means that along with all of the other year-end lists we produce and avidly consume at this time each year, The New York Times Book Review's staff critics are also looking back on everything they read in 2025, and toasting the books that have st ...  Afficher plus

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 ...  Afficher plus

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 ...  Afficher plus

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 ...  Afficher plus