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The father of the Web wants coders to be more responsible and rethink algorithms.
From "LOL" to "FOMO," online lingo is shaping how we communicate.
We may be about to witness a new age of the internet.
The internet of things is going deep -- deep underwater, that is.
With our online activity rising to such prominence in our lives, many people are looking to protect both their privacy and data.
Most people are staying at home amid lockdown measures
In today's digital age, not having internet access can encroach on a person's freedome of speech and other basic human rights.
Quantum World of Warcraft, here I come.
This is seriously cool.
"All kinds of things have gone wrong" with the internet, says Berners-Lee.
High-speed internet makes electronic devices more interesting... and we seem to be losing track of our bed time.
The first satellites could appear in 2019.
The pen is mightier than the sword -- the keyboard will be mightier than the mallet.
Downloading...
Hordes of zombie gadgets had something to do with it.
'It's simple thermo,' he said.
A discussion of tremendous importance for the internet was taking place these days, although most of us weren't even aware of it.
Just like anything else, it needs constant exercise to stay in shape.
It's a great day for the Internet but we're still just shy of a decisive ruling.
NASA always gets the best of everything.
A team of researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics just beat the previous record by a factor of 10.
British researchers at the University College London set the record for the fastest data transfer rate: a mind-boggling 1.225 Tbps/second. That's 50,000 faster than the average UK broadband (24 MBs/s) or just fast enough to download the entire Game of Thrones series in HD in just one freaking second.
The Internet is a wonderful and wonderfully powerful place. Just think about it, you have access to almost all of human knowledge with just a few key strokes. But having this much information at your disposal seems to actually make us rely less on what we already know.
Later last year, ZME Science revealed that one of Elon Musk's top priorities in the future is deploying a massive fleet of micro-satellites into Earth's low orbit to provide internet and mobile data. The plan is to serve internet to billions in the developing world, but to do so the service needs to be very, very cheap. At the same time, while launching thousands of satellites into space doesn't sound particularly cheap, but if there's any company good at launching cargo into space affordably that's SpaceX. This isn't exactly a pipe dream, and Musk seems very serious about it considering he just filled an official request to the FCC to gain permission for a test of the satellite internet, according to the Washington Post.
We’ve probably all experienced it at some point – you really have no reason to stay online… but you do so nonetheless. But six percent of the global population actually suffers from internet addiction (IA). Addiction is defined as a substance or activity which is initially pleasurable, but the continued use/act of which becomes compulsive and […]
There are over 4 billion IP addresses registered all over the globe and this number is constantly growing as developing countries get wired and more people use smartphones and tablets. The internet isn’t the same all over the world (yet) and activity heavily fluctuates from day to night. A new study mapped the world’s internet […]
Who would have thought snooping into people’s private lives pisses them off? A new study by North Carolina State University researchers found that job candidates who found out their social media profiles were being peered through by employers were less likely to view the hiring process as fair. In consequence, these people are less likely to […]
In a mind-boggling and, frankly, a bit frightening breakthrough, researchers at University of Washington have devised a brain-to-brain interface that for the first time has allowed the remote exchange of information between two human brains. The test that demonstrated the technology, although simple in nature, shows of a powerful display of force. One researcher (human brain […]
Investigators say the operation was the biggest, most sophisticated theft New York City has seen since the 1978 Lufthansa heist. The booty US federal authorities have uncovered so far includes Rolex watches, a Mercedes SUV, a Porsche, bags from Gucci, and piles of cash. Yet the alleged perpetrators never held a gun to a teller […]
On July 8, 2013, Yahoo!, Inc., officially shut down and sent AltaVista.com to the depths of the internet necropolis, along with other old services that could be treated as irrelevant in today’s technosphere. If you visit the site today, it will automatically redirect you to Yahoo!’s search site, Yahoo.com. Let’s take a look back to […]
The Chinese government is well on track in its plans of implement a modern and more secure internet infrastructure. The web is getting really, really old and creaky, and naturally attempts to modernize its infrastructure and protocols have been made. The west is lagging far behind in its efforts, while China is close to setting […]
Just recently European scientists have released the first part of the Rapyuta program – a global world wide web for robots. Now, don’t get this wrong. This isn’t a place where robots can chat, surf websites or browse facebook. On Rapyuta, robots will have access to open data like a massive database, as well as additional […]
Researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison recently carried out an linguistic analysis that compared descriptions posted by online dating sites users (height, weight, age, personality traits etc.) and their actual, true characteristics. The results weren’t that surprising at all – almost everybody lied at least about something. Interestingly enough, the communication experts involved in the study […]
According to a recently published study, teens who regularly drink alcohol tend to spend more time on a computer surfing the internet on social networking sites, than other teens who don’t drink alcohol. As a conclusion that both somewhat bashes ‘nowadays teens’ and the Internet, the study concludes that a link between teenage drinking and […]
In the wake of Japan’s most devastating recorded earthquake to date, the nation of the rising sun is still left in shock. Hundreds were killed, many more left homeless, countless financial damage and entire cities left with electricity – it might even get a heck of a lot worse. Another big issue is the telecom […]
Mike Massimino hit the news in May as the first to “Tweet” in space. He began “tweeting” under the name “Astro Mike” while training for the STS-125 mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. Soon nearly 250,000 people were following his Twitter feed. The reality is that Massimino probably wasn’t really “tweeting” at all, at […]
