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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

VideoProc Converter AI example with a small poodle.

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.

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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

Top 10 Common WordPress Errors (and How to Fix Them)

WordPress, like any other software, has its fair share of issues. Here are 10 common WordPress problems you might face and how you can fix them yourself.

By Nicholas Godwin – May 30, 2018

What Are DNS Leaks and How to Fix Them

A DNS leak occurs when a user’s IP address is exposed via an unencrypted DNS request to their ISP’s DNS server. This will show how to fix DNS leaks.

By Alexander Fox – May 29, 2018

5 of the Best Privacy-Centered Cryptocurrencies

If you are concerned about your privacy and don’t want others to know about your transactions, These are the best privacy-centered cryptocurrencies.

By Ada Ivanova – May 28, 2018

How to Enable Two-Factor Authentication to Protect Your Firefox Accounts

Mozilla has begun to roll out two-factor authentication in Firefox accounts. For Firefox users, here’s how to enable two-factor authentication in Firefox.

By Ayo Isaiah – May 28, 2018

Is Your Technology Listening to You?

Given that you’re within range of at least one microphone for the majority of your day, you’d be justified in worrying that someone might be listening to you.

By Andrew Braun – May 25, 2018

The Beginner’s Guide to Touch Typing

If you are new to touch typing, here is a beginner’s guide to help you get started.

By Ada Ivanova – May 25, 2018

How the New “Nigelthorn” Facebook Malware Works and How to Avoid It

Facebook has seen a lot of attacks in the past, but the recent malware, referred to as “Nigelthorn,” is particularly nasty for Chrome users.

By Simon Batt – May 22, 2018

How to Disable Sponsored Ads in Firefox

Firefox’s recent update to version 60 started displaying sponsored ads on a new tab. These are the steps to disable sponsored ads in Firefox.

By Fabio Buckell – May 22, 2018

Everything You Need to Know About YouTube Premium and YouTube Music

YouTube is going through some big changes, most likely industry-defining changes. This article explains what you need to know about YouTube Music and YouTube Premium.

By Robert Zak – May 21, 2018

The Caveats of Owning Connected Smart Home Devices

While smart home devices have brought convenience to the house, they do come with caveats that you as the house owner must know.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – May 19, 2018

5 Useful Tools to Help You Spot Fake News

If you want to keep your social media profile credible, these are some steps you can take to double-check your news and spot fake news.

By Andrew Braun – May 17, 2018

How to Download Your Passwords in Google Chrome

Do you use Google Chrome to save your passwords, and are you looking to switch to a password manager? Here’s how you can download passwords in Google Chrome.

By Tracey Rosenberger – May 16, 2018

5G Is on the Horizon. How’s It Shaping Up?

With 4G holding such a predominant spot in our daily lives, it’s only natural that people look forward to when 5G will come out.

By Simon Batt – May 16, 2018

How to Create a Dropdown List in Microsoft Excel

Creating a dropdown list in your Excel spreadsheet can help to increase the efficiency of your work. Here’s how to create a dropdown list in Excel.

By Kenneth Kimari – May 15, 2018

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4 Classic Websites to Scratch Your Retro Gaming Itch

A number of websites have popped up that are dedicated to preserving old video games. The best part is all of the games are playable directly within your browser.

By Ryan Lynch – May 14, 2018

5 of the Best Self-Hosted URL-Shortener Scripts

The following self-hosted URL-shortener scripts grant you absolute control and allow you to tweak and adjust your links to suit your peculiar taste.

By Nicholas Godwin – May 14, 2018

How to Create Your Own Cryptocurrency

As complicated as cryptocurrency is, creating your own cryptocurrency doesn’t even require basic math or coding skills.

By Andrew Braun – May 10, 2018

Encryption Made Easy: Stuff You Can Do with Gpg4win

Thanks to the Gpg4win program suite, it’s now very easy to encrypt your files and message. This article shows how you can use it to encrypt/decrypt your files.

By Andrew Braun – May 9, 2018

How to Easily Color Code Gmail for Clear Visual Organization

Gmail has a way to add colored tags to your incoming email, so you know right away what needs to happen with those messages. Let’s take a look at how you can color code Gmail.

By Tracey Rosenberger – May 8, 2018

5 Ways to Localize Your Google Search and Geo-Location Features While Traveling

When you travel to a new place, Google Search also switches to your new location. Here are five ways to restore your control over your search and location settings.

By Nicholas Godwin – May 7, 2018

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