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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

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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

7 Chrome Extensions to Enhance Gmail

7 Chrome Extensions to Enhance Gmail

In addition to the basic & advanced features provided by Gmail, here are 7 Chrome extensions that enhance Gmail & take your email experience one step further.

By Vamsi Krishna – Nov 9, 2015

Everything You Need to Know About Ransom Web Attacks

A recent trend has emerged in which attackers are now asking for ransoms in web attacks. This is also known as ransom attacks. Here’s what you need to know.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Nov 7, 2015

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Recommended Plugins For a New WordPress Site

Starting a new WordPress site and wondering which plugins are best? We’ve compiled 11 plugins that are essential for new WordPress installations.

By Ayo Isaiah – Nov 5, 2015

Blender 3D Lighting and Rendering Basics

Blender 3D Lighting and Rendering Basics

In this article we will teach you to light your scenes using virtual lights inside Blender 3D and render your scenes as a still, a cross-platform software.

By Phil South – Nov 4, 2015

How to Automatically Collect Tweets from Any User or Hashtag in a Google Spreadsheet

How to Automatically Collect Tweets from Any User or Hashtag in a Google Spreadsheet

Need an easy way to collect tweets from a user or hashtag? Tweet Archiver is a Chrome extension that automatically saves tweets that match your criteria to a Google Spreadsheet.

By Khamosh Pathak – Nov 1, 2015

Tagspaces, An Offline Personal File Organiser

Tagspaces, a Powerful Offline Personal File Organiser

Tagspaces is a non-cloud note and file organiser for all major platforms. It works offline, is open source, uses plain file formats & uses simple tagging. Here’s a closer look.

By Attila Orosz – Oct 31, 2015

How to Use Mini Mammoth for Chrome to Collect Research While Your Browse the Web

How to Easily Save Your Research with Mini Mammoth for Chrome

Mini Mammoth is a Chrome extension and next generation web clipper tool; it’s like Evernote’s web clipper on steroids. Here’s how to use it for Web research.

By Khamosh Pathak – Oct 31, 2015

Blender 3D Materials and Textures Basics

Blender 3D Materials and Textures Basics

In this article we show you how to texture objects that you make in Blender 3D using photographic bitmaps and graphics you create.

By Phil South – Oct 28, 2015

What You Should Know About Facebook's Searchable Public Posts

What You Should Know About Facebook’s Searchable Public Posts

As of October 23, 2015, the BBC reports that all public posts on Facebook will be searchable. Here’s what you need to know and how to opt out of searchable public posts.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Oct 26, 2015

Firefox Stuck in Safe Mode? Un-stick It

Firefox Stuck in Safe Mode? Un-stick It

Have you ever started Firefox in Safe Mode and can’t get out of it? Even worse, maybe every time you start Firefox, it’s in Safe Mode? If so, here’s how to fix that.

By Lori Cline – Oct 22, 2015

Blender 3D Basics

Blender 3D Basics: The Getting Started Guide

In this article we give you a beginners’ guide to building objects in 3D with Blender, a free cross-platform 3D graphics and video software.

By Phil South – Oct 21, 2015

Reading Blind: The Best Screen Readers

Reading Blind: The Best Screen Readers for the Visually Impaired

If you or a friend or family member are visiually impaired, or you just want a screen reader, here are some of the best screen readers to use.

By Christopher Harper – Oct 19, 2015

How to Use Slack as an RSS and Webcomics Reader

How to Use Slack as an RSS Reader

Slack is is a messaging app for teams, but it’s also a great way to keep up with your favorite RSS feeds and web comics. Here’s how you can do that.

By Khamosh Pathak – Oct 16, 2015

7 Must Use Tools for Every Writer

7 Must-use Tools for Every Writer

Looking for the right tools and resources to make writing easier? Here are some of the best tools every writer should consider for increased productivity.

By Vamsi Krishna – Oct 16, 2015

Cool Effects Programming with Reaper

Create Cool Sound Effects with Reaper

There are a lot of effects that come with the DAW software Reaper. In this article we show how to create sounds and provide fun presets to get you started.

By Phil South – Oct 14, 2015

Make Firefox Work Like a File Explorer

Better Manage Your Tabs in Firefox with Tree Style Tab

Looking to change up the way tabs work in Firefox? Meet the Tree Style Tabs add-on, a different approach to the traditional “browser with tabs.”

By Paul Ferson – Oct 9, 2015

Camera Tracking in Blender

Introduction to Camera Tracking in Blender

Blender is a wonderful 3D program. In this article we show the facility for camera tracking in Blender and suggest ways to use it for visual effects.

By Phil South – Oct 7, 2015

Chrome, YouTube, and AdBlock: What You Need To Know

Chrome, YouTube, and AdBlock: What You Need to Know

This past month Google made the news for seemingly bypassing adblockers on Chrome, leading to a discussion on both adblock and advertising on YouTube.

By Christopher Harper – Oct 5, 2015

YouTube RED: Google's Plan to Monetize YouTube

YouTube RED: Google’s Plan to Monetize YouTube

YouTube plans to launch a version without ads for a monthly subscription fee. For now we’re calling it ‘YouTube RED.’ Want to learn more about it? Read on!

By Christopher Harper – Oct 4, 2015

Enpass: More than just a Password Manager

Enpass: More Than Just a Password Manager

Enpass Password Manager is a free password manager app for all mobile and desktop devices. Here’s a quick look at what it entails.

By Christopher Harper – Sep 30, 2015

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