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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

Openreel Video Browser Editor

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

3 Ways to Extract Images from Google Docs

While Google Docs is useful, it has one downside. You can’t easily extract images from it. Here are three workarounds to extract images from Google Docs.

By Nicholas Godwin – Jul 19, 2018

Useful Tools You Can Use to Track Your Social Media Analytics

Planning for effective social media usage is where the use of social media analytics comes in. Here are some useful tools to track your social media efforts.

By Tracey Rosenberger – Jul 18, 2018

5 of the Best YouTube Thumbnail Makers You Can Use Online

A good YouTube thumbnail can entice more people to view your videos.

By Kenneth Kimari – Jul 18, 2018

What Exactly Is Facebook Doing With AI?

Facebook has been investing a lot of effort on artificial intelligence, and the sheer scale and rate at which AI is added into its products makes it worth a look.

By Andrew Braun – Jul 17, 2018

A More Current (2018) Update on Bitcoin’s Anonymity

This is the updated version of Bitcoin anonymity and what you can do to stay underground.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Jul 17, 2018

7 Useful WhatsApp Tricks You’re Probably Not Using

WhatsApp adds many new features with each update. The following are some useful WhatsApp tricks you are probably not aware of.

By Fabio Buckell – Jul 16, 2018

Why Do Service Websites Need Payment Info for Free Trials?

There are reasons why you need to provide payment info when you sign up for the free trials.

By Simon Batt – Jul 16, 2018

How to Create and Set Up Quizzes in Google Forms

You can do just about anything with Google. You can take notes, watch videos and create quizzes.

By Fabio Buckell – Jul 12, 2018

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How to Play Media Files on Your Smart TV

Popping something up on the big screen needn’t be a technical challenge in 2018. Here are a few tips for you to play media files on a smart TV.

By Marc van Sittert – Jul 5, 2018

What Are Top-Level Domains (TLD) and How Does They Work?

Every web URL ends with something like .com, .net, etc. Those three letters are called Top Level Domains and are important to bring you to where you want to go.

By Fabio Buckell – Jul 5, 2018

How to Sync Microsoft Outlook to Android

Microsoft Outlook doesn’t play well with Android – until now. This article shows how you can sync Microsoft Outlook to Android, including your calendars and contacts.

By Nicholas Godwin – Jul 4, 2018

What Is OpenStreetMap and Should You Be Using It?

OpenStreetMap is open source, user contributed, and free to use. Even if you haven’t heard of it before, chances are good that you’ve used its data.

By Andrew Braun – Jul 2, 2018

How to Choose Which Cryptocurrency to Mine

With so many available cryptocurrencies, it’s not easy to choose which one to mine. These tips will show you how to choose a profitable currency to mine.

By Ada Ivanova – Jun 29, 2018

After Cambridge Analytica, Facebook Still Has Data-Leaking Bugs

It only took a few months after the Cambridge Analytica data scandal before a hacker discovered a Facebook bug that could lead to more data leak.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Jun 29, 2018

How to Add Custom Post Status in WordPress

While WordPress supports custom post status, it doesn’t allow you to add it easily. Here’s how to add a custom post type in WordPress with PublishPress.

By Vamsi Krishna – Jun 26, 2018

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Soundcore Spirit X Sports Earphones Review

We tested the Soundcore Spirit X Sports Earphones by Anker, and it didn’t disappoint, with regards to both build and quality.

By Damien Oh – Jun 26, 2018

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Where to Watch the World Cup Live Online

For those who can’t catch the World Cup on TV this year, here are some of the ways to watch the World Cup online, be it on your desktop, phone, or tablet.

By Marc van Sittert – Jun 22, 2018

How to Embed YouTube Videos in WordPress with Privacy Enhanced Mode

If you want to embed YouTube videos that don’t collect user data, then your best bet is the YouTube privacy-enhanced mode.

By Nicholas Godwin – Jun 21, 2018

5 of the Best Graphic Design Tools for Non-Designers

These simple-to-use graphic design tools turn you into an expert, even if you are really bad at graphic design.

By Kenneth Kimari – Jun 18, 2018

Create Your Own Crowdfunding Site with WP Crowdfunding Plugin

You don’t really need Kickstarter. Creating your own crowdfunding site is very easy.

By Vamsi Krishna – Jun 18, 2018

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