Telegeography (cited in the article) publishes an interactive submarine cable map: https://www.submarinecablemap.com

You can even buy printed versions: https://shop.telegeography.com/collections/telecom-maps/

The submarine cable map has long been on my want-to-splurge-but-can’t-justify list. Would make great office art.

Interestingly, I can’t see a single line from the US to Russia or China (not sure about the latter).

Not much reason to have direct cables. The parts of Russia and the US that are close to each other are very empty, and it makes sense to land transpacific cables in Japan or Taiwan and pick up traffic there rather than going non-stop to China.

> it makes sense to land transpacific cables in Japan or Taiwan and pick up traffic there rather than going non-stop to China.

US-Russia, sure, probably, but this is not the case with US-China. PLCN (https://www.submarinenetworks.com/en/systems/trans-pacific/p...), which was planned to land on Hong Kong (not even mainland China), has been significantly modified (now lands to Taiwan and the Philippines, with no sister cable to Hong Kong) due to objections from the US. There are also other plans to have a direct Shanghai-US connections (mainly for lower latency for financial information) that both governments have basically killed due to national security concerns.

Not necessarily "fake"!! This can almost be considered as some form of dogfooding!

Interestingly enough, the video is from Udacity - which also benefits from hype

"The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads," he says. "That sucks." - Jeff Hammerbacher (who built the original Data Analysis team at Facebook)

https://www.fastcompany.com/3008436/why-data-god-jeffrey-ham...

I wonder if this is more or less likely to make that a reality.

Amazon Web Services to set up East Coast corporate campus in Fairfax County https://www.bizjournals.com/washington/news/2017/06/08/amazo...

There are a ton of players in the "ID verification" space (LexisNexus, Jumio, MiTek, KoFax). Most of them are only verifying the formatting of the ID, not the information.

I've yet to find an API based solution that can reliably verify information solely based on the picture of someones drivers license.

The information needs to be cross-referenced with a public records check (like Jumio allows - can't speak to the others) in order to be useful.

"But Vaughn, the arbitrator, decided that Brim's actions, although illegal and inappropriate, were not undertaken with malicious intent. Vaughn based his decision on witness statements, including those of the police officer, Tyrone Hardy, Metro officials said.

Vaughn reduced Brim's penalty to a 30-day suspension and awarded him back pay for the rest of the time. Farbstein did not know the value of back pay awarded in either case."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06...

I would bet that this is directly related to Apple's 2013 acquisition Locationary -http://allthingsd.com/20130719/apple-acquires-local-data-out...

This is exactly what Dan and Grant built Locationary for, to crowdsource and manage (validation, collisions, conflicts) massive location based datasets.

Locationary's Saturn platform was worldwide, with hundreds of thousands of locations outside the US, so I'm guessing its only a matter of time before Apple opens it up.