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Top 10 crucial judgments by Supreme Court in the year of the pandemic
Justices began hearing arguments by video conferencing, a momentous step for an institution, w…
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New side hustle alert? People are renting out Starlink satellite-internet dishes on Facebook Marketplace for around $30 per day
One startup CEO said he'd found a man that was bringing in $5,000 a month renting out seven SpaceX …
Grace Kay
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Google finishes laying a giant undersea internet cable stretching 3,900 miles from New York to the UK and Spain
The Google cable is set to ferry up to 350 terabytes of data per second, equivalent to 17.5 million…
Isobel Asher Hamilton
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The Internet's original source code is going up for auction on Sotheby's as an NFT this month
The British computer scientist, who was knighted for his feat, is giving everyone a chance to ow…
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How to check the strength of your Wi-Fi signal on a Mac or PC, and interpret or improve its strength level
You can easily check your Wi-Fi signal's strength, right down to the exact dBm levels, on a Mac or …
Dave Johnson
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I'm a fact-checker at Snopes, the internet's authority on viral hoaxes. Here's how I tell if news is fake.
My team covers stories like $1 million bounties on Vladimir Putin and "Ukrainian Army Cats." Discer…
Madison Dapcevich
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2 out of 3 Indians say they would rather give up TV than YouTube for a month: Sanjay Gupta, Google India
YouTube in India now reaches over 325 million 18+ unique viewers month on month
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'What is a WPA2 password?': A guide to WPA2, the safest type of Wi-Fi password you can have
WPA2 is currently the recommended password type for Wi-Fi routers, and lets you secure your network…
Dave Johnson
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Yahoo's massive password breach is the 'security equivalent of ecological disasters'
Ghosemajumder doesn't think so. He said he didn't see a surge in new breaches so much as a steady i…
Raphael Satter
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The internet is roasting YouTube's 'Rewind 2019' video, with people calling it lazy and low-budget
YouTube released its year-in-review video Thursday as part of its annual tradition of highlighting …
Paige Leskin
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Apple Pay is growing faster than the internet's favorite payment service, PayPal
Apple Pay has become a popular form of payment in recent years, especially in the US where it is ac…
Mary Hanbury
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1 in 5 LGBTQ+ people come out on the internet first, study finds
But the variety of social media offerings means that LGBTQ-identifying individuals have an opportun…
Paige Leskin
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Living in Antarctica means no streaming thanks to slow internet that's only up 5 hours a day, according to a man documenting life on a remote research station
The Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station only gets internet by satellite. But that doesn't keep people…
Marianne Guenot
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No smoking, no tattoos, no bikinis: inside China’s war to ‘clean up’ the internet
When are bikinis allowed on China’s live-streaming apps, and when are they not? As content moder…
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9 Wonderful French Expressions That Have No Good English Equivalent
"Right to oblivion." There are now guidelines, signed in 2010, applying to search engines that auto…
Rob Wile
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Satellite images and internet trends suggest the coronavirus may have emerged months before China reported it: 'Something was happening in October'
Traffic at six major Wuhan hospitals rose alongside searches for "cough" and "diarrhea" in fall 201…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
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We bought a bag of caffeine equivalent to 15,625 cans of Coca-Cola for $30
That argument comes across as somewhat disingenuous - it's much easier to take a fatal dose of pure…
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Russia is clamping down on foreign internet companies
Many observers are worried that the meetings between the Kremlin and large Western internet compani…
Max Slater-Robins
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Alibaba on course to become world's top retailer
It is equivalent to China's Sichuan province's gross domestic product (GDP) last year, when the pro…
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Here's how the 'Internet of Things' is being used for major cyberattacks on the enterprise
"The challenge is that, short of using some sort of infrastructure like Google's infrastructure or …