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In the late 19th century, the British Empire wrapped the globe not only in pink on maps but in copper beneath the seas. This vast web of su...

When cell phones were first introduced, they were unattractive, brick-like devices that could do nothing more than make voice calls and sen...

Many say that the world’s first cyber attack happened in 1988, when Robert Morris, a 20-something graduate student at Cornell, inadvertentl...

By the late 19th century, the miracle device called the telephone had been invented but the simple concept of undergrounding telephone cable...

Overlooking the harbour of St John's, in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, is a massive piece of rock towering 140 meters above the Atl...