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Investment in subsea cable projects is expected to reach around $13 billion between 2025 and 2027, almost twice the amount invested between 2022 and 2024, according to telecommunications data provider TeleGeography. Tech giants Meta, Google, Amazon and Microsoft now represent about 50% of the overall market, up from a negligible share a decade ago. The companies are expanding their subsea infrastructure to connect growing networks of data centers needed for AI development. Meta announced Project Waterworth in February, a 50,000-kilometer cable connecting five continents that will be the world's longest subsea cable project. Amazon announced its first wholly-owned subsea cable called Fastnet, connecting Maryland to Ireland. Google has invested in over 30 subsea cables. Over 95% of international data and voice call traffic travels through nearly a million miles of underwater cables.

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AN engineer from Essex has won the £1 million top prize on one of the National Lottery's instant win games

AN engineer from Essex has won the £1 million top prize on one of the National Lottery's instant win games

It's OK to look: New Canary channel build supports specific silicon while 26H2 remains the main 2026 update

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 version 26H1 is coming, but only with changes to support "specific silicon" – possibly Qualcomm's latest chips due next year – meaning ordinary users are unlikely to see it soon.…

Gerad Kite is used to famous faces walking into his Central London acupuncture clinic.Spice Girl Mel C and Radiohead's Ed O'Brien are clients.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: A ban on transgender women in Olympic sports is edging closer and is strongly expected to be in place for the LA Games in 2028.

It was set to reopen in September

While rock, paper, scissors is usually seen as a game of luck, a scientist at Western Sydney University has revealed what they claim is a surefire way to beat your friends.

One dog suffered serious injuries and sadly was found dead

Oduba described how the addiction gave him panic attacks, hurt his relationships and cost him 'thousands of pounds' on subscription sites.

Former PC Bouette was sentenced after sending messages relating to the sexual abuse of children

The Traitors' Charlotte Chilton has vowed to step back from social media amid her ongoing paternity battle with singer Conor Maynard. 

Over the past decade, it has been interesting to watch companies push the rock that is quantum computing up the steep hill. …

Quantinuum Makes Another Milestone On Commercial Quantum Roadmap was written by Jeffrey Burt at The Next Platform.

Brits have flocked to social media to discuss the unusually mild weather - with one claiming 'it's a little too warm for mid-November'.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Microsoft, eager to boost downloads of its Copilot chatbot, has recruited some of the most popular influencers in America to push a message to young consumers that might be summed up as: Our AI assistant is as cool as ChatGPT. Microsoft could use the help. The company recently said its family of Copilot assistants attracts 150 million active users each month. But OpenAI's ChatGPT claims 800 million weekly active users, and Google's Gemini boasts 650 million a month. Microsoft has an edge with corporate customers, thanks to a long history of selling them software and cloud services. But it has struggled to crack the consumer market -- especially people under 30. "We're a challenger brand in this area, and we're kind of up and coming," Consumer Chief Marketing Officer Yusuf Mehdi said in an interview. Mehdi hopes to persuade key influencers to make Copilot their chatbot of choice and then use their popularity to market the assistant to their millions of followers. He says Microsoft is already getting more bang for the buck with influencers than with traditional media, but didn't provide any metrics. [...] Using non-techies as spokespeople is meant to reinforce Microsoft's campaign to sell its chatbot as a life coach for everyone. Or as Consumer AI chief Mustafa Suleyman wrote in a recent essay, an AI companion that "helps you think, plan and dream."

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Around 100 extra Metropolitan Police officers were deployed to tackle some of the most common offences blighting the capital as part of Operation Baselife.

He will appear at court

Scientists have broken down the good - and not so good - effects of fasting diets.

The grim milestone has been reached under Shabana Mahmood more quickly than under any of her predecessors since 2022.

A 21-year-old woman was bitten in the neck by a lion after being dragged off a horse during a South Africa safari - but miraculously survived.