The Inventor of the World Wide Web Calls Out Social Media’s Dark Side: “This toxicity comes from the algorithms”
The father of the Web wants coders to be more responsible and rethink algorithms.
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How Internet Slang Has Become Part of Everyday Language
From "LOL" to "FOMO," online lingo is shaping how we communicate.
What is Web 3.0 — the next step in our digital evolution
We may be about to witness a new age of the internet.
Researchers develop underwater WiFi
The internet of things is going deep -- deep underwater, that is.
Virtual private networks grow popular under the lockdown
With our online activity rising to such prominence in our lives, many people are looking to protect both their privacy ...
The Internet is dealing well with growing coronavirus traffic
Most people are staying at home amid lockdown measures
Internet access should be a basic human right, study says
In today's digital age, not having internet access can encroach on a person's freedome of speech and other basic human ...
We’re 50 km closer to quantum internet
Quantum World of Warcraft, here I come.
Yes, a quantum internet is possible, new study shows
This is seriously cool.
The World Wide Web’s inventor says we need a ‘new contract’ for the world wide web
"All kinds of things have gone wrong" with the internet, says Berners-Lee.
Scientists link broadband internet access to sleep deprivation
High-speed internet makes electronic devices more interesting... and we seem to be losing track of our bed time.
SpaceX will launch three times more satellites than there currently are in orbit to give you fast internet
The first satellites could appear in 2019.
Yesterday, US officials said you had no right to online privacy — we don’t agree so here’s Internet Noise to help you out
The pen is mightier than the sword -- the keyboard will be mightier than the mallet.
Here’s why there was no Twitter on Friday — it’s way scarier than you think
Hordes of zombie gadgets had something to do with it.
Internet schools man for trying to “mansplain” a NASA astronaut
'It's simple thermo,' he said.
Net neutrality wins in Europe – a victory for the internet as we know it
A discussion of tremendous importance for the internet was taking place these days, although most of us weren't even aware ...
Relying too much on the Internet for fact finding could hurt your brain
Just like anything else, it needs constant exercise to stay in shape.
Access to Internet is a basic human right, the UN decides
It's a great day for the Internet but we're still just shy of a decisive ruling.
New NASA transfer protocol makes space Wi-Fi better than yours
NASA always gets the best of everything.
Engineers Just Smashed Record for Fast Wireless Data Trasmission: 6 Gigabits per second
A team of researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics just beat the previous record by a ...
Scientists shuttle data at 1.125 Tbps or 50,000 more than your average UK broadband
British researchers at the University College London set the record for the fastest data transfer rate: a mind-boggling 1.225 Tbps/second. ...
Having access to the Internet changes the way you think
The Internet is a wonderful and wonderfully powerful place. Just think about it, you have access to almost all of ...
Musk seeks permission from the FCC to test his ambitious space internet
Later last year, ZME Science revealed that one of Elon Musk's top priorities in the future is deploying a massive ...
Internet addiction affects over 400 million people globally, study finds
We've probably all experienced it at some point - you really have no reason to stay online... but you do ...
What the World looks like when the Internet is asleep
There are over 4 billion IP addresses registered all over the globe and this number is constantly growing as developing ...
Screening job candidates on facebook backfires for employees
Who would have thought snooping into people's private lives pisses them off? A new study by North Carolina State University researchers ...
Brain-to-brain interface allows first telepathic exchange of information between two humans
In a mind-boggling and, frankly, a bit frightening breakthrough, researchers at University of Washington have devised a brain-to-brain interface that for ...
A Growing Global Menace
Investigators say the operation was the biggest, most sophisticated theft New York City has seen since the 1978 Lufthansa heist. ...
In Memoriam: A Brief Look at Pre-Google Search Engines
On July 8, 2013, Yahoo!, Inc., officially shut down and sent AltaVista.com to the depths of the internet necropolis, along ...
China’s next-generation internet infrastructure tightens security
The Chinese government is well on track in its plans of implement a modern and more secure internet infrastructure. The ...
Internet for robots comes online
Just recently European scientists have released the first part of the Rapyuta program - a global world wide web for robots. ...
Most people on dating websites lie about themselves. Find out how easy it is to spot them
Researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison recently carried out an linguistic analysis that compared descriptions posted by online dating sites users ...
Teen drinking linked to Internet use
According to a recently published study, teens who regularly drink alcohol tend to spend more time on a computer surfing ...
The Internet’s response to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami
In the wake of Japan's most devastating recorded earthquake to date, the nation of the rising sun is still left ...
NASA to Adopt “Space Internet” by 2011
Mike Massimino hit the news in May as the first to "Tweet" in space. He began "tweeting" under the name ...
