Tons of of cables. Tons of of hundreds of miles. The web runs, in vastly extra methods than we understand or take into consideration, by a collection of garden-hose measurement tubes on the ocean ground. With out these tubes, the trendy world kind of collapses. And the oldsters accountable for conserving them functioning have larger, tougher, stranger jobs than you would possibly suppose.

Then, we chat with The Verge’s Tom Warren and Joanna Nelius concerning the new technology of PCs that Microsoft and others appear to suppose are going to be big enhancements over something we’ve seen earlier than. Can Qualcomm lastly make the PC chip we’ve been ready for? Is that this actually, really, lastly the 12 months of Home windows on Arm? What the heck is an AI PC? We cowl all of that and extra.

Lastly, Alex Cranz joins to assist us reply a hotline query about e-readers. As a result of it’s at all times fascinating instances in e-readers.

If you wish to know extra about the whole lot we talk about on this episode, listed here are just a few hyperlinks to get you began, starting with Josh’s story on undersea cables: