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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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Official WinX DVD Ripper teaser.

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.

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

Move Your Evernote to OneNote

How to Easily Move From Evernote to OneNote

Interested in OneNote and looking to move your notes from Evernote to OneNote? Here’s how to switch from one note-taking app to the other.

By Vamsi Krishna – May 14, 2016

How to See Twitter and Facebook Posts in Chronological Order

How to See Twitter and Facebook Posts in Chronological Order

Do you prefer to see your Twitter and Facebook posts in chronological order? This tutorial will show you how to do that so you won’t miss a thing.

By Judy Sanhz – May 14, 2016

Opera Revisited: Fastest Browser With A Free VPN?

Opera Revisited: Fastest Browser with a Free VPN?

Opera’s gone through a lot of changes over the years. Is it really the fastest browser? How good is its built-in VPN? Let’s take another look at Opera.

By Christopher Harper – May 11, 2016

Daz 3D Basics

Render Stunning Visuals of Human Objects with Daz 3D

The free cross-platform 3D rendering program Daz 3D Studio comes with poseable human being objects and scenes to render. Here’s how to set up Daz 3D and get started.

By Phil South – May 11, 2016

2 Ways to Send Bitcoins on Telegram

2 Ways to Send Bitcoins on Telegram

If you want to send and/or receive bitcoins, you may want to consider Telegram message as a way to do so. Here’s how to send bitcoins on Telegram.

By Derrik Diener – May 11, 2016

How To Load Additional Web Pages in Firefox Sidebar

How to Load Additional Web Pages in Firefox Sidebar

Did you know that Firefox lets you open web pages on the left side to keep up with its information? Here’s how to load web pages in the Firefox sidebar.

By Karrar Haider – May 10, 2016

Enjoy YouTube's Material Design Before Anyone Else

Enjoy YouTube’s Material Design Before Anyone Else

YouTube has a new material design coming soon. If you would like to enjoy the new design sooner, here’s how to get it before the official unveiling.

By Judy Sanhz – May 9, 2016

Does Antimalware Really Do Anything To Help Stop Malware?

Does Anti-Malware Really Do Anything to Help Stop Malware?

A number of viruses evade security software detection causing huge problems. So we ask: are anti-malware applications worth the trouble anymore?

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – May 9, 2016

7 .htaccess Rules that Every WordPress User Should Know

7 .htaccess Rules That Every WordPress User Should Know

Every WordPress site comes with its own .htaccess configuration file. Here are 7 .htaccess rules you should add to your WordPress site.

By Vamsi Krishna – May 9, 2016

Here is How to Access All Hidden Messages on Facebook

How to Access All Hidden Messages on Facebook

Did you know that you have an area for hidden messages in your Facebook Inbox? If not, you’ve probably missed a lot of messages from non-friends. Here’s how to access those messages.

By Karrar Haider – May 8, 2016

How To Authorize and Deauthorize a Computer in iTunes

How To Authorize and Deauthorize a Computer in iTunes

Part of Apple’s DRM system requires that all content endpoints be authorized to use the content you buy and use on them. Here’s how to authorize and deauthorize a computer.

By Chris Spera – May 7, 2016

Open365: An Open Source Alternative to Office365 for the Web

Open365: An Open Source Alternative to Office365 for the Web

Have you ever wanted to run Libre Office in a web browser? With Open365 you can; it’s the entire Libre Office suite in the browser.

By Derrik Diener – May 6, 2016

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Are You Loyal to One Browser or Are You Constantly Switching?

One of the most essential apps in all of our arsenals, whether we do our computing on a mobile device, laptop, or desktop, is the browser. Are you loyal to one browser or are you constantly switching?

By Laura Tucker – May 6, 2016

More Basic Sketchup Construction Tips and Tools

More Basic Sketchup Construction Tips and Tools

Looking for more tips regarding Sketchup Make software? Here are a few more tools to make better models. We cover using guides, snapping cursors, reference points and more.

By Phil South – May 4, 2016

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Use Optimus for WordPress to Reduce Image Size and Improve Loading Speed

Looking to reduce the image size of your site? Try Optimus for WordPress to optimize your uploaded images.

By Damien Oh – May 4, 2016

Three Converters to Turn Your Pictures into ASCII Art

Interested in converting your pictures/text to ASCII art? Here are three converters you should check out.

By Paul Ferson – May 4, 2016

MTE Explains: What Metadata Is and Why It's Important

MTE Explains: What Metadata Is and Why It’s Important for Your Privacy

There is an understanding that metadata collection isn’t as bad as full surveillance, but what is it and is collecting it harmful to your privacy? Let’s find out.

By Christopher Harper – May 3, 2016

Should The Need for Warrants Be Extended to Personal Emails?

Should the Need for Warrants Be Extended to Personal Emails?

The Email Privacy Act forces the government to seek warrants before asking tech companies for emails. Should this be the same for an individual’s personal emails?

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – May 2, 2016

Temporarily Disable Caching In Chrome For A Specific Website

Temporarily Disable Caching in Chrome for a Specific Website

Want to disable caching for a particular website so that you can easily see what has been newly added to it?. Here’s what you need to do.

By Judy Sanhz – May 2, 2016

Add These WordPress Plugins and Get More Traffic To Your Site

Add These WordPress Plugins and Get More Traffic to Your Site

You can’t build a site and expect people to find it on their own; you have to give it a boost. These WordPress plugins can help get more traffic to your site.

By Jeffry Thurana – May 2, 2016

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