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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

Article on how to change a WordPress themes header image when the theme doesn't allow for it.

How to Change a WordPress Header Image When Your Theme Doesn’t Have a Setting for It

Most of the free WordPress themes out there don’t come with a customization option. Here is how you can change the WordPress header image when the theme doesn’t have a setting for it.

By Nick Iandolo – Mar 30, 2017

Browse the Web with Friends Using Rabb.it

It’s not easy to watch media at the same time as other people over the Internet. Rabb.it provides a service for you to easily browse the Web with friends.

By Simon Batt – Mar 30, 2017

How to Set Alarms on Apple Watch

Alarms on Apple Watch are completely separate from those on iPhone and must be managed as such. Here is how you can set alarms on Apple Watch.

By Corbin Telligman – Mar 28, 2017

How to Prevent Your Smart TV from Spying on You

Smart TV’s are great, as they allow you to do all sorts of online stuff, and they do spy on you too. Here is how to prevent your smart TV from spying on you.

By Fabio Buckell – Mar 27, 2017

How to Properly Import Microsoft Word Documents into WordPress

Many people face formatting issues when pasting text from Microsoft Word to WordPress. Here are some ways to properly import Microsoft Word documents to WordPress.

By Ayo Isaiah – Mar 25, 2017

Bugs in LastPass Browser Extensions Allow Hackers to Grab Passwords

It’s been discovered that a bug in Lastpass browser extensions is leaking passwords. Here is what you need to know about the exploits and what you can do to protect yourself.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Mar 23, 2017

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5 of the Best Image Optimization Plugins for WordPress

There are many ways to improve your website, and one of them is to optimize the images. Here are some of the best image optimization plugins for WordPress.

By Ayo Isaiah – Mar 23, 2017

How to Improve Internet Speed for Streaming

Have you ever streamed a video and found that the quality is bad? Here are some ways to potentially improve your Internet speed with little to no cost.

By Ryan Lynch – Mar 22, 2017

How to Create 8-Bit Graphics with Cosmigo Pro Motion NG

You might think that 8-bit graphics are outdated, but they are in fact having a resurgence and have been used in many old-style graphics work. Here’s how you can create 8-bit graphics with Cosmigo Pro Motion NG.

By Phil South – Mar 21, 2017

How to Turn on Encryption in Facebook Messenger

For those who are using Messenger, Facebook added an encryption feature last October. Here is how you can turn encryption on in your Facebook Messenger.

By Samantha Donaldson – Mar 21, 2017

Some Ugly Truths About Zero-Day Exploits

You probably know and have heard about “zero-day exploits,” but there are some ugly truths that you would rather not know as you get deeper into it. Here are some of them.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Mar 20, 2017

DVDFab: An Easy-to-Use DVD Ripper and So Much More!

If you wanted to convert your DVD movies to files, DVDFab DVD Ripper allows you to easily encodes and copies movies from discs and convert them to movie files to store in your PC.

By Phil South – Mar 20, 2017

Block Tracking Websites with Disconnect for Chrome

If you’re interested in blocking ad requests or seeing who tracks you when you load a website, Disconnect for Chrome can block tracking websites completely.

By Simon Batt – Mar 19, 2017

4 of the Best Tips to Secure Your WordPress Login Page

Securing your WordPress login page is the first step to securing your site. Here are some of the ways you can use to protect your WordPress login page.

By Abhishek Macwan – Mar 16, 2017

The Funniest Revelations from Vault 7

Here we will bring attention to some of the more light-hearted reveals in Vault 7 that have largely been overlooked by media outlets. Check it out … it’s funny!

By Christopher Harper – Mar 13, 2017

How to Easily Find Anyone’s Email Address in Seconds

Looking for an email address of someone not in your contact list might not be easy. Here are a few strategies to find anyone’s email addresses from the Web.

By Ada Ivanova – Mar 11, 2017

IBM Advances Atomic Storage: What It Means for You

IBM announced a great advancement in storage size and capacity: the ability to store information within a single atom. What does this mean for you?

By Christopher Harper – Mar 9, 2017

Treasure Trove Of Exploits Discovered Among The CIA’s Vault 7 Leaks

A massive leak of some of the CIA’s closely kept secrets stored in a repository known as “vault 7” has hit the wire. Here’s what you need to know, and worry about.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Mar 8, 2017

What Chrome’s Explosive Growth Teaches Us About Browsers

Chrome’s explosive growth is impressive, and it is not showing any sign of slowing down. What lessons does it teach us about how browsers should cater to the average user, which is you and me?

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Mar 7, 2017

Fixing WordPress White Screen of Death

The White Screen of Death is one of the most horrifying errors that can happen in WordPress. Here are some of the causes and the solutions to fix it.

By Ada Ivanova – Mar 4, 2017

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