{"id":30780,"date":"2025-02-18T03:48:14","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T22:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30780"},"modified":"2025-04-15T23:16:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T17:46:01","slug":"project-waterworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/project-waterworth\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Waterworth"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Project Waterworth Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recently, Meta announced its most ambitious subsea cable endeavour ever \u2013 Project Waterworth.<\/p>\n<h2>About Project Waterworth<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It stretches over <strong>50,000 km long cable <\/strong>which connects India, US, Brazil, South Africa and other \u201ckey regions\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>Its cable will reach depths of up to <strong>7,000 meters<\/strong> in deep waters.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>project is using AI<\/strong> to enhance subsea cable infrastructure to improve global connectivity.<\/li>\n<li>It focuses on enhancing cable deployment and maintenance, ensuring reliable and efficient internet access worldwide.<\/li>\n<li>It uses <strong>enhanced burial techniques<\/strong> in high-risk fault areas, such as shallow waters near the coast, to avoid damage from ship anchors and other hazards.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What will Project Waterworth Do?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Project Waterworth, by leveraging advanced <strong>machine learning models,<\/strong> aims to predict and <strong>mitigate potential disruptions,<\/strong> enhancing the resilience of subsea networks.<\/li>\n<li>The initiative will bring industry-leading connectivity to the US, India, Brazil, South Africa, and other key regions.<\/li>\n<li>This will facilitate greater <strong>economic cooperation, digital inclusion<\/strong>, and open opportunities for technological development in the said regions.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It would provide <strong>&#8220;industry-leading connectivity<\/strong>&#8221; to five major continents and help support its AI projects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Project Waterworth FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong> What is Artificial intelligence?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong> It is a field of science concerned with building computers and machines that can reason, learn, and act in such a way that would normally require human intelligence or that involves data whose scale exceeds what humans can analyze<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:<\/strong> What is meant by digital inclusion?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans: <\/strong>Itis defined as \u201cequitable, meaningful, and safe access to use, lead, and design of digital technologies, services, and associated opportunities for everyone, everywhere\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/artificial-intelligence\/meta-project-waterworth-ai-driven-subsea-cable-infra-9837582\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project Waterworth stretches over 50,000 km long cable which connects India, US, Brazil, South Africa and other \u201ckey regions\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30781,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-30780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}