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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

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

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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

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

Use Save to Google and Save Websites to Your Google Account

Use Save to Google and Save Websites to Your Google Account

Google recently launched a Chrome extension similar to Pocket that lets you save websites for later viewing called Save to Google. Here’s how it works.

By Karrar Haider – Apr 30, 2016

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Access Saved Passwords and Other Information in Chrome from Anywhere

Chrome includes data sync which syncs most of your Chrome data, like saved passwords, to all your devices. Here’s how to do that while keeping your data secure.

By Karrar Haider – Apr 28, 2016

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Take Full Advantage of Google Calendar’s New Goals Feature

Google Calendar has launched a feature called Goals or Objectives. Here’s how to take full advantage of this productivity-boosting feature.

By Judy Sanhz – Apr 27, 2016

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How to Disable Search Suggestions in Chrome and Safari

Tired of seeing search suggestions in the address bar on your desktop or mobile device? Here’s how to disable search suggestions in Chrome and Safari.

By Mahesh Makvana – Apr 27, 2016

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How to Reply to Just a Specific Phrase in Gmail

In Gmail it can be difficult to pinpoint your email reply. Let’s see how you can quote and reply directly to to a specific phrase in Gmail.

By Karrar Haider – Apr 25, 2016

How to Convert Pages Files to Microsoft Word Format

How to Convert Pages Files to Microsoft Word Format

If you have some Pages files that you want to be able to open in Microsoft Word, here’s two methods of converting them from Pages to Word.

By Mahesh Makvana – Apr 24, 2016

Your WordPress Site and Telegram are a Perfect Pair; Here's How to Link Them

Your WordPress Site and Telegram Are a Perfect Pair; Here’s How to Link Them

Looking for a way to interact with your audience and reach more readers? Here’s how you can connect WordPress and Telegram.

By Jeffry Thurana – Apr 19, 2016

Avoid Inbox Clutter and Spam With Throttle

Avoid Inbox Clutter and Spam with Throttle

If you want to avoid inbox clutter and spam from coming to your email, it’s a good idea to use a digest service like Throttle to keep your inbox clean.

By Christopher Harper – Apr 18, 2016

How to Resize and Optimise Images Using GIMP

How to Resize and Optimize Images Using GIMP

Want to decrease the size and/or file size of your images? This tutorial will show you how to resize and optimise images using GIMP.

By Ayo Isaiah – Apr 18, 2016

Xombrero Web Browser - Secure By Default

Xombrero: A Minimalist Browser with Focus on Security

Looking for a more secure browser for Linux? Check out Xombrero web browser, a minimalist browser with sophisticated built-in security features. It has a familiar interface similar to Firefox.

By Logen Kain – Apr 15, 2016

Quickly Switching User Profiles In Chrome Via Keyboard Shortcuts

Quickly Switch User Profiles in Chrome Via Keyboard Shortcuts

Looking for an easier way to switch user profiles in Chrome? Here’s how to switch Chrome user profiles with keyboard shortcuts.

By Karrar Haider – Apr 14, 2016

Learn What Privacy Policies Really Mean

Learn What Privacy Policies Really Mean with Usable Privacy Project

Privacy policies are often lengthy and hard to understand, so the Usable Privacy Project created a tool that makes privacy policies easier to understand. Check it out.

By Christopher Harper – Apr 11, 2016

Browser Fingerprinting and Avoiding It

MTE Explains: Browser Fingerprinting and How to Avoid It

You have probably heard of browser fingerprinting, but are not sure what it is. This article will explain what browser fingerprinting is and how to avoid it.

By Christopher Harper – Apr 6, 2016

Tagmmer: A Visual Place For Your Files and Web Links [Review]

Tagmmer: A Visual Place for Your Files and Web Links

Tagmmer is a web-based alternative to such services as Dropbox and Puu.sh. It’s also a powerful sharing application in its own right. Let’s check it out.

By Christopher Harper – Mar 30, 2016

Beginners Guide to 3D Modelling with Sketchup

Beginners Guide to 3D Modelling with Sketchup

Sketchup is a CAD program. In this article, potentially the first of a series, we show you how to get up and running doing 3D modelling in Sketchup Make.

By Phil South – Mar 30, 2016

Twitter Emoji: Save Character Spaces and Say It With A Smiley Face

Twitter Emoji: Save Character Spaces and Say It with a Smiley Face

Looking for an easy way to add emoji characters to your tweets on Twitter? Here is a Chrome extension and web app that can help.

By Judy Sanhz – Mar 29, 2016

Are Online Payments Safer With One-Time-Use Debit Card Numbers?

Are Online Payments Safer with One-Time-Use Debit Card Numbers?

A startup called Privacy has created a solution that uses a one-time-use debit card number for online transactions. Will this make online payment safer? Let’s check it out.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Mar 28, 2016

Getting Rid of The Blue: F.lux and Alternatives For More Devices

Getting Rid of the Blue: F.lux and Alternatives for More Devices

If you work on your computer for long hours, you probably deal with eye strain and disrupted sleep. Luckily, this can be helped by a few apps like F.lux

By Christopher Harper – Mar 25, 2016

Why You Should Create A Child Theme And Tips To Make It Easier

Why You Should Create a Child Theme and Tips to Make It Easier [WordPress]

This article will explain why a child theme is necessary for making customisations on your WordPress website and show you how to create one.

By Ayo Isaiah – Mar 23, 2016

6 Google Chrome Features You Might Not be Using

6 Useful Google Chrome Features You Should Know About

Behind Chrome’s minimalist design, it hides hundreds of features – even some you may not know about. Let’s check out some of those little-known Chrome features.

By Karrar Haider – Mar 21, 2016

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