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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

Turn Website Into Desktop App

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.

Gadgets

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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

Tribit X-Boom: A Bluetooth Speaker With Bass You Can See & Feel

Tribit X-Boom: A Bluetooth Speaker with Bass You Can See & Feel Review

If your Bluetooth speaker lacks hard-hitting bass, it’s time to check out the Tribit X-Boom Bluetooth speaker. Its bass-boosting feature doesn’t disappoint! Plus, it’s completely waterproof!!

By Charnita Fance – Nov 13, 2018

How to Place Images in Microsoft Word the Way You Want

Placing images in Microsoft Word might seem impenetrable, but there are in fact rules you should follow. Here are some advanced options to place images in Word.

By Alexander Fox – Nov 12, 2018

How To Quickly Edit and Share Screenshots with ShareX

If you find yourself taking screenshots a lot in your daily life, ShareX is a powerful screen capture tool you should use. Dig into this program and see what it can achieve.

By Simon Batt – Nov 12, 2018

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Your One-Stop Troubleshooting Guide for Skype Call Issues

There are many factors that contribute to bad Skype call issues. Follow the simple steps in this troubleshooting guide to overcome all your Skype call woes.

By Sayak Boral – Nov 11, 2018

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How to Enable Offline Mode in Google Chrome

Google Chrome’s offline mode creates a local cache of all visited web pages so that you can view them when offline. Here’s how to enable it.

By Mike Tee – Nov 9, 2018

Why Giving Blockchains the Ability to Talk to Each Other is a Big Deal

Every blockchain works differently and can’t reliably transfer data between multiple chains. That’s likely to change, though, as there are projects that allow blockchain to talk to each other.

By Andrew Braun – Nov 9, 2018

What Is a 502 Bad Gateway Error (And How Can You Fix It)?

If you are trying to figure out why your site keeps throwing a 502 Bad Gateway error, read on to find out what causes this problem and how you can fix it.

By Kenneth Kimari – Nov 8, 2018

How Much Data Is Your Streaming Service Using?

In a world where ISPs are placing limits on the data their customers consume each month, it’s important to know how much data your streaming services use.

By Chris Stobing – Nov 6, 2018

How to Make Your Home Kitchen Smarter

Here’s a list of some of the most innovative and exciting developments in kitchen IoT that can help you take your home into the 21st century.

By Chris Stobing – Nov 5, 2018

How to Clean and Manage Your Gmail Inbox

Gmail has become good at dividing emails into different tags and labels and keeping spam away. These tricks will help you clean up your Gmail Inbox.

By Robert Zak – Nov 5, 2018

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6 Great Uses of Visual Search Engines to Find the Images You Want

A visual search engine allows you to search and filter information about images. These are great uses for a visual search engine instead of just searching.

By Sayak Boral – Nov 4, 2018

How to Disable Video Autoplay in Chrome and Firefox

Do you hate video ads that automatically play when you load a website? This shows an easy way to disable video autoplay in Chrome and Firefox.

By Robert Zak – Nov 3, 2018

What You Need to Know About “Dark Patterns” and How They Trick Users

Many websites and apps come with dark pattern interfaces to confuse and trick their users. Find out what “dark patterns” are and how they are used to trick people.

By Andrew Braun – Nov 1, 2018

How Facial Recognition Is Being Used for Law Enforcement and Why It’s Concerning

Government agencies are using AI and facial recognition to make law enforcement safer and more efficient. Should we be concerned about this?

By Andrew Braun – Oct 30, 2018

What Are Instagram Nametags and How Do You Use Them?

Instagram’s Nametags can be personalized and make it easier for others to follow you. Learn the various ways to customize your Instagram Nametag.

By Fabio Buckell – Oct 28, 2018

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How to Fix Firefox Proxy Server Connection Refusal Error

When using Firefox you might experience an error where the Firefox proxy server refuses connections to a webpage. Here’s how to fix the Firefox proxy server connection refusal error.

By Sayak Boral – Oct 27, 2018

How to Accept or Reject All Friend Requests at Once on Facebook

It can be very troublesome to manage your friends requests on Facebook if you have too many requests coming in. Here is how to bulk reject and accept friend requests on Facebook.

By Comfort Sibisi – Oct 27, 2018

How to Recover a Lost Microsoft Word Document

Be it a power failure or software crash, you can lose your work if you are not careful. Here we’ll show you how to recover a Microsoft Word document if that situation occurs.

By Ryan Lynch – Oct 26, 2018

Top 5 Chromium-Based Web Browsers of 2018

If you’re a Chrome user but dislike that Google impedes on your privacy, here are the best Chromium-based browsers that have the same experience as Chrome.

By Comfort Sibisi – Oct 26, 2018

4 of the Best MOOC Platforms for Online Learning and Getting a Degree

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have become massively popular. Here are some of the best MOOC platforms you can access for online learning and get a degree.

By Andrew Braun – Oct 25, 2018

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