“This is one of the least visited places on planet Earth and I had to open the door,” Matty Jordan, a construction specialist at New Zealand's Scott Base in Antarctica, wrote in the caption of a video he posted to Instagram and TikTok in October 2023.
In the video, he takes viewers through the hut, pointing out where members of Ernest Shackleton's 1907 expedition lived and worked.
The video has received millions of views around the world. This is also something of a miracle: until recently, those who lived and worked on Antarctic bases had no hope of communicating so easily with the outside world. That's starting to change thanks to Starlink, a satellite constellation developed by Elon Musk's SpaceX to serve the world with high-speed broadband Internet access.
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+ OpenAI believes that the future of web browsing will involve interaction within the interface. (Ars Technique)
+ AI means the end of internet search as we know it. (MIT Technology Review)
