Highest-Capacity Data Cable
A new high-capacity data cable connecting Europe with the USA; Superhero robots; Ubongo WISE winner; The future of AI; First ever Fixfest, a festival of repair
There is news of the high-capacity data cable stretching across the Atlantic that has now been completed. The cable is threaded across the ocean floor from Virginia Beach, Virginia to Bilbao, Spain.
Researchers from MIT are developing a system that allows a 鈥淧rimer鈥 robot to don various exoskeletons to give it different capabilities. Daniela Rus from MIT joins Click to discuss it.
Nisha Ligon鈥檚 company Ubongo is a winner of this year鈥檚 WISE award. Ligon talks about designing digital material for school children in Africa.
An AI retreat at the location in Norway used for the film Ex-Machina has been the focus of expert discussion on the future of AI. Bill Thompson joined the retreat arranged by Clearleft鈥檚 Andy Budd.
Fixfest, the first international gathering for the community repair movement takes place at the weekend bringing together fixers from Argentina to Norway. Click hears from one of the organisers, Janet Gaunter of the Restart Project and from Jean-S茅bastien Bigras whose company Insertech specialises in teaching repair and preventing waste.
(Photo caption: Operators handle an undersea fiber optic cable at Arrietara beach near the village of Sopelana - Facebook and Microsoft have paired up to run a giant underwater cable dubbed Marea that will stretch from Virginia in the US to Bilbao, Spain, crossing some 6,600 kilometers of ocean 漏 Ander Gillenea/AFP/Getty Images)
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