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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

Productivity

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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

Social Media

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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

Download X Videos Featured

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

Hide Telegram Chats Featured

How to Hide Telegram Chats Without Permanently Deleting Them

Gaming

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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

Online Shopping Scams Featured

5 Common Online Shopping Scams and How to Avoid Them

Here are the most common online shopping scams going around this year. Keep yourself updated and learn how you can protect yourself.

By Cosette Jarrett – Dec 15, 2016

How to Install Microsoft Office 2013 in Linux

Switching to Linux doesn’t mean you have to give up on your Windows applications. For Office users, here’s how to install Microsoft Office 2013 in Linux.

By Derrik Diener – Dec 14, 2016

How To Enable AdSense on Your YouTube Videos to Start Earning

If you are starting out as a YouTube publisher, here is how you can enable Adsense on your YouTube videos and start to earn some money.

By Corbin Telligman – Dec 14, 2016

5 of the Best Alternatives to Mailchimp You Should Check Out

While Mailchimp is great, it can get very expensive as your database grows. Here are some of the cheaper Mailchimp alternatives you should check out.

By Ada Ivanova – Dec 13, 2016

What Is the Scareware Scam and How to Protect Yourself

Other than the usual malware, there is also the scareware scam that scares you to install infected software. Let’s learn how it works and how you can protect yourself.

By Simon Batt – Dec 11, 2016

WWW vs. Non-WWW URL: Which One Is Better (and How to Add WWW to Your WordPress Site)

There are many debates about www vs. non-www URL. Find out all the differences here and learn how to add “www” to your domain in WordPress.

By Jeffry Thurana – Dec 11, 2016

How to Reduce the Maximum Image Upload Size in WordPress

Large, uncompressed images can slow down a WordPress website. Here is how you can restrict/reduce the image upload size in WordPress and make your site go faster.

By Ada Ivanova – Dec 9, 2016

4 Apps and Online Tools to Find Out What to Watch on Netflix

If you are running out of things to stream, here are four tools you can use to find awesome new content on Netflix and other popular streaming platforms.

By Cosette Jarrett – Dec 1, 2016

Improve Your Productivity with These 10 Offline Apps for Chrome

Plenty of Google Chrome apps require an Internet connection to be truly useful. Here are 10 great offline apps for Chrome you can use to improve your productivity.

By Alexander Fox – Nov 29, 2016

How Images Can Infect Your Computer through Social Media

Can image files like JPEGs or PNG spread viruses? We tend to believe not, but here’s an incident on how images are used to infect computers through social media. Let’s find out!

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Nov 28, 2016

How to Make Use of Google’s Advanced Search Features for Better Search Results

Sometimes Google might not return the results you want. Fortunately, you can use Google’s advanced search features to be a little more direct with Google and obtain better search results.

By Alexander Fox – Nov 28, 2016

The User Guide to Choosing the Best WordPress Plugins that Suit Your Needs

There are millions of WordPress plugins. How do you choose the best one for your site? This guide shows you the things you should do to evaluate the usefulness of a plugin.

By Ada Ivanova – Nov 24, 2016

Tips and Tricks for Google Inbox You Should Know to Improve Your Productivity

Google Inbox is Google’s new take on email management. It comes with plenty of hidden tips and tricks. Here are some of them you can use to improve your productivity.

By Corbin Telligman – Nov 21, 2016

5 Websites to Help You Boost Your Productivity

In this connected world, distractions can be a killer. Here are five websites that will help you shake off the distractions and focus on your goals.

By Simon Batt – Nov 20, 2016

How to Make Mobile-Friendly Websites that Make Google Happy

As Google gives more priority to mobile-friendly websites, it is important for you to ensure your site is mobile friendly. Learn how to do so with these tips.

By Christopher Harper – Nov 19, 2016

What You Need to Know About Long-Range WiFi Project

Security specialist Ben Caudill announced a “Proxyham” project that can provide long-range WiFi and a secure and private connection. Let’s find out how it works.

By John Parsons – Nov 19, 2016

User Accounts Might Become Obsolete in Video Conversation. Here’s Why!

With Skype removing the need to have user accounts to participate in conversations, user accounts might become obsolete in the near future. Here’s why.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Nov 18, 2016

Settings and Extensions We Think Are Protecting Our Privacy But Aren’t

There are plenty of privacy settings and extensions that are supposed to protect us, but are not really working. Check out the list here.

By John Parsons – Nov 17, 2016

How to Avoid Spoilers and Political Discourse While Online

With Facebook and Twitter overrun with spoilers of TV shows and movies, you can use these tools to filter the content you see and avoid spoilers and political discourse.

By Ryan Lynch – Nov 16, 2016

7 of the Best Social Media Plugins for WordPress

There are dozens of social media plugins for WordPress, each with a different purpose. Here are 7 of the best social media plugins that are worth trying.

By Ada Ivanova – Nov 16, 2016

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