backbone

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And more and more of our lives—from self-driving cars to home robots—will depend on what’s supposed to be a reliable cellular backbone.

From The Wall Street Journal

Banks remain the key enabler as the financing backbone for these themes, she says.

From The Wall Street Journal

The investigation report, released late Tuesday, said the system was restored "following resynchronisation/restarts that took place after rerouting traffic on the backbone network".

From Barron's

Offshore wind is widely seen as the backbone of Great Britain's future clean electricity system, with plentiful wind resources off the country's coastlines.

From BBC

Analysts see no sign of waning demand for semiconductors, which provide the backbone for AI software.

From Barron's