Data centres go Jules Verne
20,000 leagues under the sea
The future of data centres might be underwater, according to a company which is planning to build them on the seabed of the Pacific ocean by the end of this year.
Tory minister's broadband shows him up
It just had enough
A UK Tory minister's broadband appeared to have had enough of him telling the world how superior British broadband was and showed the world how pants it really was -- live.
Google's VPN advertising bans make some apps rubbish
Don't you mess with revenue
Google will ban Android VPN apps in its Play store from iblocking advertising which could cause some major headaches for privacy applications.
Google scales network capacity
It is all done with magic mirrors you know
Google has scaled its network capacity from over one petabit per second to beyond six petabits per second mostly thanks to a technique which involves bouncing optical signals off mirrors to redirect traffic.
This will go down well
After failing to get Big Tech to pay any significant amounts of tax, the government's of France, Italy and Spain are stepping up pressure on the European Commission to come up with legislation that ensures Big Tech firms partly finance telecoms infrastructure.