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Roughly 99 per cent of international internet traffic runs through about 550 undersea cables — and a handful of private companies including Google, Meta and Amazon now own or lease a growing share of them

Content and cloud networks now account for three-quarters of used international bandwidth, while Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon own, co-own or buy capacity on a growing share of the 600-plus submarine cable systems carrying over 99 per cent of data between countries, a private map hidden below the wireless internet

Wi-Fi doesn't actually slow down when a café gets crowded — the signal is fine, but every device has to wait its turn to speak on the same frequency, and the polite queuing is what you feel as lag

Wi-Fi doesn’t actually slow down when a café gets crowded — the signal is fine, but every device has to wait its turn to speak on the same frequency, and the polite queuing is what you feel as lag

In 1988, a 23-year-old Cornell graduate student named Robert Morris released a self-replicating program to measure the size of the internet — within hours it had crashed roughly 6,000 of the 60,000 machines then online, and computer security became a field

In 1988, a 23-year-old Cornell graduate student named Robert Morris released a self-replicating program to measure the size of the internet — within hours it had crashed roughly 6,000 of the 60,000 machines then online, and computer security became a field

In July 2026, Psy’s Gangnam Style passed six billion YouTube views, fourteen years after its horse-riding dance became the platform’s first billion-view video and long after engineers had replaced a counter designed to stop at 2,147,483,647

Intricate network of tree roots and moss on a forest hillside, showcasing nature's resilience.

Suzanne Simard sealed paper birch and Douglas fir seedlings inside plastic bags, fed them carbon-14 and carbon-13 dioxide, and nine days later found carbon had crossed between species through fungal threads in the British Columbia soil beneath her boots

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WinX DVD Ripper: Quickly Rip and Digitize DVDs

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I Just Replaced Adobe Illustrator With This Browser Based Alternative

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Use Pake to Turn Websites Into Desktop Apps — No Bloat, No Browser Dependency

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VideoProc Converter AI: Easy 1-Stop AI Video, Image, Audio Tool

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Stop Using Capcut! This Secret Open-Source Browser App Is a Video-Editing Beast

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How to Use WhatsApp Web and WhatsApp Desktop in 2026

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Discord Botched Age Verification – Here’s How They’re Fixing It

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How to Download Videos from X (Formerly Twitter)

How To Fix Snapchat’s Most Annoying Audio Glitches

Snapchat Audio Driving You Crazy? Here’s the Rapid Fix

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How to Hide Telegram Chats Without Permanently Deleting Them

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When Japan’s trade ministry put the PlayStation 2 under export control in April 2000, its 6.2-gigaflop hardware was considered adaptable for missile guidance, briefly forcing anyone exporting more than one console to seek government approval

How did a failed CD deal between Sony and Nintendo in 1991 accidentally create the console that would sell 155 million units and reshape gaming?

How did a failed CD deal between Sony and Nintendo in 1991 accidentally create the console that would sell over 100 million units and reshape gaming?

In the early 1980s, a Dutch radio broadcaster figured out how to transmit video games over standard commercial radio broadcasts — and teenagers across Europe would sit with blank cassette tapes waiting for the local station to broadcast a series of high-pitched squeaks and buzzes that they could record and load into their home computers

Sony’s PlayStation 2 was so computationally advanced when it launched in 2000 that the government of Iraq reportedly imported over 4,000 of the gaming consoles — sparking an intense military investigation over fears that the systems would be chained together to build a crude, low-cost supercomputer capable of guiding long-range missiles

The legendary video game Pac-Man doesn’t actually have an ending—instead, a single 8-bit integer overflow bug causes the game’s internal counter to glitch out at Level 256, violently corrupting the right half of the screen into a chaotic mess of random symbols and rendering the final stage completely unplayable.

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When you tilt a smartphone, gravity shifts microscopic silicon fingers inside its accelerometer by only a few nanometres, changing the capacitance between them and producing the electrical imbalance the phone reads as a new direction for down

The GPS satellites orbiting 20,200 kilometres overhead run their clocks about 38 microseconds faster per day than clocks on the ground — without Einstein's relativity correcting for it, GPS would drift by roughly 10 kilometres every 24 hours

The GPS satellites orbiting 20,200 kilometres overhead run their clocks about 38 microseconds faster per day than clocks on the ground — without Einstein’s relativity correcting for it, GPS would drift by roughly 10 kilometres every 24 hours

Apple has quietly become the largest watchmaker in the world by unit sales, shipping more than twice as many watches as the entire Swiss industry combined — but the Swiss industry, which dismissed the Apple Watch in 2015, has discovered something more interesting: they’ve held onto the high end, and Rolex alone is now closing in on Apple Watch by revenue

Why You Need A Travel Router For Public Wi Fi (and How To Set It Up)

Why a Travel Router is the Best Investment for Your Next Trip

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9 Ways to Repurpose Your Old Tablets and Put Them to Good Use

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How to Use Google Translate in Google Sheets

While using Google Sheets, you can easily translate one language to another. Here is how you can make use of Google Translate in Google Sheets.

By Fabio Buckell – Aug 14, 2019

Instagram Photo Technique

How to Take Awesome Instagram Photos with 6 Simple Steps

The first step to finding success on Instagram is to take good pictures. Here are 6 steps to create an gallery of awesome Instagram photos.

By Neeraj Chand – Aug 10, 2019

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Google Maps vs. Waze: Which Is the Best Navigation App?

Waze and Google Maps are the big guns of the smartphone navigation world. Find out whether Google Maps or Waze is the best navigation app.

By Alexander Fox – Aug 9, 2019

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A Chrome User’s Guide for Switching to Firefox

Chrome users concerned about privacy and corporate overreach should give Firefox a serious look. Here’s our guide to switching to Firefox browser.

By Alexander Fox – Aug 8, 2019

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How to Recover a Blocked Outlook or Microsoft Account

For one reason or another, you might find yourself blocked out of your Outlook or Microsoft account. Here’s how you can recover your Microsoft account.

By David Joz – Aug 8, 2019

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Golang vs. Java: The Programming Showdown

Both Golang and Java are widely-used programming langauges. Let’s see how the two languages, Golang and Java, compare to each other.

By Kris Wouk – Aug 8, 2019

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5 of the Best Apps to Install for Your Nextcloud Server

While Nextcloud on its own is great, it can be even better with the addition of apps. We’ve put together some of the best apps for your Nextcloud server.

By Kris Wouk – Aug 7, 2019

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7 of the Best Chrome Extensions You Need to Try

Chrome is a great browser, but it can be made even better with extensions. Here are 7 of the best Chrome extensions you should try to make it more useful.

By Robert Zak – Aug 7, 2019

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How to Turn on Reader Mode on Your Browser and Read without Distraction

Most browsers have a “Reader Mode” to reduce the clutter on the pages. Here is how to turn on Reader mode on some of the popular browsers.

By Tracey Rosenberger – Aug 6, 2019

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How to Transfer Gmail Contacts from One Account to Another

If you are changing your Google account, here are the steps to transfer your Google contacts from your previous Gmail account to the new account.

By Neeraj Chand – Aug 5, 2019

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How to Start Your Own Internet Radio Station

You don’t have to be a DJ to start your own Internet radio station. Here we’ll walk you through the basic steps to start your own Internet radio station.

By Sayak Boral – Aug 1, 2019

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How Tracking Pixels Monitor Your Email, and How You Can Stop Them

Tracking pixels have been around for quite a while and are actively being used in emails to track you. Here’s how they work, and how you can stop them

By Andrew Braun – Jul 26, 2019

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How to Easily Encrypt Files without Password Using Cloak Encrypt

Cloak Encrypt is a file encryption tool that can encrypt and decrypt files without any passwords. It is available for Windows, Mac, iOS and Android. Here’s how it works.

By Sayak Boral – Jul 26, 2019

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5 of the Best Cloud Gaming Services

If you’re itching to get your gaming fix but don’t want to pay for the hardware, these are some of the best cloud gaming services currently available.

By Ben Stockton – Jul 25, 2019

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Golang vs Python: Which Is Best for Your Programming Needs?

If you look around the Web, you’ll find a lot of reports of people switching from Python to Go. So is Go better than Python? We examine Golang vs. Python to see which is better.

By Kris Wouk – Jul 25, 2019

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8 Useful Tools to Stress Test Your CPU

When you stress test your CPU, you are able to size up your hardware’s reliability. The following tools are useful in stress testing your CPU.

By Sayak Boral – Jul 24, 2019

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How to Play a Secret Tennis Game on Google Right Now

Google has a habit of celebrating momentous public events with easter eggs. In honor of Wimbledon, you can now play a tennis game on Google’s results page.

By Neeraj Chand – Jul 24, 2019

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Four Tools to Find Out Which Streaming Platforms You Should Use

If you want to subscribe to streaming platforms that have the things you want to watch, how do you figure out where all that content is living at any time?

By Andrew Braun – Jul 23, 2019

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How to Prevent Eye Strain from Monitors

We spend a lot of time looking at monitors. Thankfully, there are plenty of ways to prevent eye strain, and most are just habits you can implement into your daily life!

By Simon Batt – Jul 22, 2019

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How to Use Google Drive to Maximize Productivity

Other than being a cloud storage service, Google Drive also comes with some useful features. Here is how to use Google Drive to maximize productivity.

By Fabio Buckell – Jul 17, 2019

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A password manager stores your vault in the cloud as encrypted ciphertext, not readable passwords, which is why recovery must be set up before you forget the master password

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Airplane mode was never really about planes — it exists because your phone's radio was interfering with cheap 1990s speakers, not with cockpit instruments

Airplane mode was never just about planes: it combines a 1991 FCC network rule with an FAA interference rule dating to 1961

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Incognito mode was never private — it hides your history from the family laptop, not from your ISP, your employer or the site you just logged into

Incognito mode was never private — it hides your history from the family laptop, not from your ISP, your employer or the site you just logged into

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HTTPS doesn’t encrypt which sites you visit — it hides the page contents, but your DNS lookups still broadcast every domain you open in plain text to your internet provider

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In 1947, Harvard’s Mark II ran on roughly 13,000 electromechanical relays, stored numbers across 100 registers, and read instructions from punched paper tape, turning thousands of clicking metal switches into a Navy calculator vulnerable to dust, loose contacts, and one famously misplaced moth

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