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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

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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

5 Essential Tips and Tricks for Google Docs You Need to Know About

There’s a good chance you are using Google Docs to for your word document. Here are 5 tips and tricks that will make your Google Docs better.

By Robert Zak – Nov 15, 2016

How to Set Up Free Email Subscription Service with TinyLetter

If you hate to spend extra time and effort to create and maintain an email list, one free email subscription service you can use is TinyLetter.

By Jeffry Thurana – Nov 15, 2016

Single Sign On (SSO) – What Is It and Should You Use It?

Single Sign On saves you the trouble of providing credentials to access sites. Here we will explain SSO in detail so you can decide if this is a good solution for you.

By Ada Ivanova – Nov 12, 2016

5 of the Best Vine Alternatives to Share Your Videos

Twitter announced that they would be discontinuing Vine “in the coming months.” Vine users can check out these Vine alternatives and start switching now.

By Ryan Lynch – Nov 11, 2016

A New Approach to Ad Blocking: Charitable Adblockers and More

Is there a way to insure a minimally-intrusive browsing experience without hurting creators? In this article we tackle charitable adblockers to find out.

By Christopher Harper – Nov 10, 2016

How to Use External Images as Featured Images in WordPress

Adding a Featured Image to a WordPress post requires you to physically upload the image. What if you want to use an external image as the featured image? Here’s how.

By Jeffry Thurana – Nov 8, 2016

Find Out How Websites Are Tracking You and How You Can Hide Your Info

Websites tracking you and targeted advertising may seem like an unavoidable part of modern life, but you can protect your privacy with these strategies.

By John Parsons – Nov 7, 2016

6 Great Projects to Use Your Computer to Advance Scientific Ventures

Have you ever wanted to help out in a field of scientific interest? Here are 6 projects where you can donate your PC processing power to advance scientific research.

By Simon Batt – Nov 4, 2016

How to Add Cool CSS3 Animation to Your WordPress Content

Looking to spice up the plain old text in your WordPress site? This WordPress plugin allows you to easily add cool CSS3 animations to your content.

By Jeffry Thurana – Nov 3, 2016

5 of the Best Google Earth Mods and Hacks

Google Earth is free and extensible. You can apply mods to make Google Earth more entertaining. Here are some of the best Google Earth mods you should try.

By Ryan Lynch – Nov 2, 2016

How to Easily Share and Embed Large Image Albums with Imgur

If you have many photos, it can be difficult to share them all to your social networks. Imgur provides a way for you to share and embed large image albums. Let’s check it out.

By Simon Batt – Nov 2, 2016

5 of the Best Freshbooks Alternatives for Small Businesses

FreshBooks is the go-to software for tracking expenses and invoices, but it is quite expensive. Here are 5 of the best Freshbooks alternatives that you should try to save on cost.

By Ada Ivanova – Nov 1, 2016

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How to Create Custom WordPress User Roles

While WordPress comes with a default set of user roles, it may not be sufficient for most of you. Here’s how you can create custom WordPress user roles.

By Ayo Isaiah – Oct 29, 2016

7 of the Best WordPress Video Plugins You Can Use to Embed Videos

If your WordPress site has a lot of videos, here are seven great WordPress video plugins to try.

By Ada Ivanova – Oct 27, 2016

How to Back Up Photos While Traveling without a Computer

Nothing makes you break out in a cold sweat faster than the prospect of losing images while you are traveling. Here’s how you can back up your photos while traveling without having to lug a heavy computer around.

By Ryan Lynch – Oct 25, 2016

6 of the Best WordPress Translation Plugins to Translate Your Site to Another Language

A multilingual site can drives more traffic, but manually translating your content into multiple languages is overkill. Fortunately, there are WordPress translation plugins you can use to translate your content and/or manage the translations.

By Ada Ivanova – Oct 25, 2016

The Best Way to Manage Automatic WordPress Updates

A WordPress auto update can be useful, but it can also break things if you are not careful. Learn the best ways to manage automatic WordPress updates without breaking your site.

By Jeffry Thurana – Oct 25, 2016

How To Control What Appears on Your Facebook Timeline

If you have many friends tagging you in Facebook, here’s how you can clean up your Facebook timeline by reviewing what you are tagged in before it appears on your Timeline.

By Karrar Haider – Oct 23, 2016

Simple Tips You Can Use to Better Organize Files in Dropbox

Dropbox is a fantastic cloud storage tool, but it can get very disorganized if you are not very careful. Here we provide some tips to better organize files and folders in Dropbox and turn it into an organized resource.

By Phil South – Oct 21, 2016

How to Fix DNS Errors and Regain Access to the Internet

Have you encountered a DNS error in your browser and can’t visit any website at all? Find out how you can fix DNS errors and regain access to the Internet.

By Simon Batt – Oct 20, 2016

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How did a guidance computer with 4 kilobytes of memory — less than a modern greeting card chip — land Apollo 11 on the Moon in July 1969?

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Fast charging isn't killing your battery — heat is, and your phone throttles the charger the moment it climbs past 35°C

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Deleting a file usually doesn’t erase it: Windows marks the space as free, HDD data can linger, and SSDs may clear it with TRIM

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A password manager doesn't actually store your passwords in the cloud — it stores an encrypted blob only your master password can unlock, which is why the company can't help if you forget it

A password manager stores your vault in the cloud as encrypted ciphertext, not readable passwords, which is why recovery must be set up before you forget the master password

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Airplane mode was never really about planes — it exists because your phone's radio was interfering with cheap 1990s speakers, not with cockpit instruments

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