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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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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

Social Media

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Whatsapp Desktop Featured

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

Antivirus Scanning Websites

No AntiVirus Software? Here Are 3 Antivirus Scanning Websites to Scan Your Files For Virus

There are various websites that let you upload files and scan them through numerous antivirus programs. Best of all, they’re free. Here’s a look at them.

By Paul Ferson – Jul 15, 2015

Use SIP and VOIP to Add Another Landline to Your Home

Use SIP and VOIP to Add Another Landline to Your Home

In this article we will cover how SIP and VOIP hosting services can be used on your broadband connection to add another landline to your home for free.

By Phil South – Jul 14, 2015

Can You Trust Online Reviews of Products?

Online reviews are great because they give you a supposedly accurate depiction of the product that you are going to buy. But can they really be trusted? Let’s find out.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Jul 12, 2015

Make an Internet Radio Station on a Budget

Make an Internet Radio Station on a Budget

Want to start an Internet radio station but are short on cash? In this article we tell you how to record your shows, sequence them and broadcast on a budget.

By Phil South – Jul 9, 2015

Two Free Alternatives to Microsoft Word

Two Free Alternatives to Microsoft Word

Tired of Microsoft Word or looking for a lighter, more feature-rich word processing program? Here are two alternatives to Microsoft Word worth checking out.

By Paul Ferson – Jul 8, 2015

Are Services Like Netflix Making Piracy Obsolete?

Streaming sites have been seeing increased usage by people who wish to pay for unlimited media streaming. Are these services going to make piracy obsolete?

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Jul 7, 2015

How Large Can a DDoS Attack Get?

The severity of a DDoS attack could vary from a mild inconvenience to a total takedown of a server. But how large can it really get? Let’s find out here.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Jul 4, 2015

13 Plugins to Manage WordPress Multi-Author Websites

13 Plugins to Manage WordPress Multi-Author Websites

Do you run a blog with multiple writers? If so, here are 13 WordPress plugins that can help improve your workflow and manage your website more easily.

By Ayo Isaiah – Jun 27, 2015

Should Websites Be Held Responsible For Visitors’ Comments?

When someone makes an irresponsible comment on a website, should the visitor or the website be responsible for the offensive comments?

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Jun 27, 2015

Is ICANN Going to Ruin Domain Privacy for Commercial Sites?

ICANN is in the process of making a policy decision that may expose people’s private information. Is this yet another infringement of privacy? Let’s check it out.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Jun 24, 2015

Review of MEGA Cloud Storage

MEGA: The Latest Cloud Storage Service That Beats the Rest

MEGA is a relatively new cloud storage option compared to more established players like Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox. Let’s see how it measures up.

By Ayo Isaiah – Jun 17, 2015

4 Great Google Docs Alternatives

4 Great Google Docs Alternatives

Fed up with Google docs? The days of Google being the only good online office tool (or suite) have ended. Check out these Google Docs alternatives.

By Derrik Diener – Jun 17, 2015

Supercharge Your Productivity With Workflowy

Workflowy: A Surprisingly Powerful Note-taking App

WorkFlowy is an organizational tool that makes life easier. It’s a surprisingly powerful way to take notes, make lists, collaborate, brainstorm and more!

By Ayo Isaiah – Jun 13, 2015

3 Things People Get Wrong About Bitcoin

3 Things People Get Wrong About Bitcoin

Without getting into politics, let’s look at Bitcoin as a technology product and analyze the misconceptions both naysayers and fans have about it.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – Jun 9, 2015

How to Access Your Favorite Websites on Multiple Devices Using Maxthon's Cloud Browser

Easily Push Content to Another Device with Maxthon’s Cloud Browser

Maxthon Cloud Browser boasts “seamless web browsing,” letting you push websites from one device to another, but just how useful is it? Let’s find out.

By Maria Krisette Capati – Jun 3, 2015

Browser Extensions We'd Like to See

Browser Extensions We’d Like to See

Ever searched for a browser extension but couldn’t find one to fit your needs? Us too! Here are some browser extensions we’d really like to see.

By Paul Ferson – Jun 3, 2015

How to Send Mass Emails Using Mail Merge in Mozilla Thunderbird

How to Send a Mail Merge in Mozilla Thunderbird

Want to send mass email messages in Mozilla Thunderbird but don’t want it to look like spam? Here’s how to set up Mail Merge so you won’t have that issue.

By Maria Krisette Capati – May 30, 2015

Cryptographic Backdoors Explained

Cryptography is supposed to keep you safe, but what if there is a backdoor that allows the government access to your account? What would be its consequence? Let’s find out.

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez – May 30, 2015

How to Quickly Share Links to a Slack Team in iOS, Android and Chrome

How to Quickly Share Links to a Slack Team in iOS, Android and Chrome

Slack is an all inclusive communication tool for teams. Here are some of fastest ways to share links and messages to a Slack team in iOS, Android & Chrome.

By Khamosh Pathak – May 29, 2015

9 Fastest Ways to Create a Short Link in Chrome, Mac, iOS and Android

6 of the Fastest Ways to Create a Short Link in Chrome, Mac, iOS and Android

Short links are prettier than regular links and often customizable. Looking for the fastest ways to create short links on various platforms? Read on!

By Khamosh Pathak – May 28, 2015

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