Meta Plans World-Spanning Internet Cables, Elusive Orange Cat Gene Found, and If Humans Disappeared on Earth

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We're experimenting and would love to hear from you!In today's episode of Discover Daily, we begin with news that Meta is embarking on an ambitious $10 billion project to construct a 40,000-kilometer subsea cable network. Nicknamed "W," this marks Meta's first exclusively owned undersea infrastructure. This massive project will connect multiple continents in a W-shaped pattern, linking the U.S. East Coast to India via South Africa, then to Australia and finally returning to the U.S. West Coas...